On Friday, April 25, 2025, GLOWBALL will transform the Armory Performance Hall into an immersive Glow-in-the-Dark Rave created by Afro House DJ Adam Gibbons with hypnotic visuals by Jay Medina, all in support of The Center for Arts at the Armory.

Host, Sarah Fishman speaks with Ward 6 Councilor/Vice President, Lance Davis.

 Property owners must shovel sidewalks by 4:30 p.m., Sunday, February 9.

The City of Somerville’s snow emergency will end on Sunday, February 9 at 12 p.m. (noon) and normal parking rules will resume at that time. The information below offers tips to avoid ticketing and towing as well as strategies for being a good neighbor and staying safe.

On Wednesday, February 5, 2025 members of the Somerville Police Department attended a workshop hosted by Teen Empowerment to continue bridging the gap between the City’s youth and their Police Officers. Through group activities and one on one conversations the workshop helped build a more comfortable relationship between the two groups. Everyone is looking forward to future opportunities to work together and continue conversations to strengthen the connection.

-Somerville Police Department

Department of Racial & Social justice and Mayor Katjana Ballantyne hold a community meeting to discuss the Public Safety for All, Civilian Oversight, and Anti-Violence recommendations.

The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival is back and still kicking after 50 years! Having survived pandemics, snowpocalypses, technological upheaval, and brain-melting shifts in the moviegoing landscape, the annual event returns February 12–17 to the Somerville Theatre and other Davis Square locations.

Somerville’s Parks & Recreation Department is being called upon to explore possibilities for an ongoing middle school intramural girls’ hockey program.

By Harry Kane

A small parent group is working to grow girls’ ice hockey in Somerville.

An order was put forward by the City Council on January 23 for the Director of Somerville Parks & Recreation to discuss the introduction of an ongoing middle school intramural girls’ hockey program.

By Dennis Fischman

A lot of authors have come out of the White House. There is a whole shelf of Presidential memoirs, some more readable than others – and some less self-serving than others. 

Ron Reagan Jr. wrote a memoir of his presidential papa, My Father at 100. (An amusing side note: Ron the younger was a freshman at Yale in the Fall of 1976, the same semester as I started there. Because he didn’t submit a photo for the freshman yearbook, above the name “Ronald Reagan” appeared a portrait of Karl Marx.)