Like digging in the dirt? Been curious about why not all dirt looks the same?
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Join the Somerville Public Library for a family-friendly, hands-on virtual workshop that encourages urban explorers of all ages to get outside and pay closer attention to the world around them. Dig up some samples and learn to categorize the different types of dirt to discover what makes the dirt in your neighborhood unique.
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Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) recognized six people who are doing essential work to support the independence and dignity of local older adults at Serving Seniors 2021.
The annual awards ceremony was held virtually on November 4, though most of the award presentations were pre-taped.
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Somerville Police respond to assaults
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Community Meeting – Monday, December 13 at 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
After feedback from the City Council and community members, they have rescheduled and reformatted the Public Safety Building meeting originally scheduled for November 10th. On December 13 at 6:00 p.m. they will have a virtual kickoff to envision a new 90 Washington Street. Attendees will be able to provide input on the public safety building project and talk with community members and neighbors about the opportunities on the rest of the site. What would you like to see here? What are your concerns? How can we create a cohesive site that also connects with the rest of the neighborhood?
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Here is the COVID-19 update as of Thursday, November 4. Please also check somervillema.gov/covid19 for additional information and resources.
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By Ian Halim
Yeast gives us a way to start understanding nitrogen’s role in living things. But I’ll need to start by explaining why yeast is so important. Not only does it make bread rise and ferment sugar into alcohol, but it also offers a powerful way to begin investigating many key questions in biology.
Before the systematic observation of modern science, a lot of evidence seemed to support the idea that living things could arise from non-living things. Maggots, for instance, seemed to burst forth from rotting meat. People didn’t notice the tiny fly eggs. And since yeast floats in the air and dust – settling by chance on grape skin or bread dough –it wasn’t always clear that it was really something separate from the grape juice that it ferments into wine, or the barley mash that it turns into beer. The Dutch scientist and microscope-maker, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), was the first to see yeast globules under a microscope, but mistakenly thought they must be a component of crushed cereal grains. In the fourth century BCE, Aristotle expressed the theory of spontaneous generation, that living things could arise from inanimate matter. And for more than two thousand years, many believed it.
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By Jim Clark
Somerville Police officers were dispatched to the Assembly Row area last week on reports that a man had grabbed several pairs of sunglasses from the Sunglass Hut and ran out of the store towards the train station.
Officers located a man matching the provided description walking into the train station along with another male and a female.
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Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte
Somerville High School’s class of 1971 had their 50th class reunion on October 23. It was a fun night of food, dancing and catching up for about 50 classmates. Fifty years! Yikes. I decided to look back over those fifty years to reminisce.
In ‘71 the train still rolled through Davis Square, there were no bus or bike lanes, no social media and no cell phones. At our fun-filled reunion we danced to songs of that era. Here are some of those songs:
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The last SomerStreets festival of the year, the spooky and fun “Monster Mashed-up” took place last Sunday on Somerville Avenue between Hawkins Street and Laurel Street. Activities will included live music on two stages, “Ghosts of Milk Row Cemetery” tours, a Roller-Skating Disco Party with DJ Brother Cleve, a Halloween costume parade led by the School of Honk!, Face Painting by Flor Delgadillo, Dia de los Muertos Celebration Activities with Andrea and Angelica Menchaca and food with Nibble Kitchen’s Estela Calzada, Handstands, juggling, acrobatics, and comedy for all ages with Cate the Great, Magic with Just Felice, Parkour and Pumpkin carving with Somerville Recreation.
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