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Eagle Feathers #319 – The Finest
By Bob (Monty) Doherty
In 1927, life changed dramatically along the Mystic River marshes in Somerville. Headquarters for the nation’s first retail supermarket chain was built at the intersection of Middlesex and Mystic Avenues. It was a huge complex that encompassed a packing plant, a bakery complex, and multiple produce warehouses.
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Looking back on the year just passed is an interesting thing to do. Sometimes sobering, at other times amusing, yet always somewhat inspiring if one considers what has been accomplished and what else is left to be done.
The advance of progress and renewal marches on as we in turn continue the pursuit of our individual hope and dreams.
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Country Manor? Or Somerville street scene?… — Photo by Denise Provost
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I am on the board of the New England Poetry Club, and at a recent meeting one of our board members wondered why we don’t have a state poet laureate. In December, we had a wonderful reading with New England Poet Laureates, and we all were very impressed with the work that they have done. A friend of mine – a former state legislator – tried to push a bill through many times, but it was considered “fluff.” Hey, don’t we have a state donut? This couldn’t be a money issue, because most laureates get grants of only a couple of thousand per year, and I believe you get a lot of bang for the buck. And it is a damn shame that our state that has a rich literary history does not have one.
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November 3, 1936 – December 29, 2024
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City offices will be closed on Wednesday January 1, for New Year’s Day.
Trash, recycling, and yard waste collection will be delayed by one day.
No street sweeping on Wednesday.
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and the Somerville Museum are inviting community members to commemorate an iconic moment in American history at the 249th Annual Prospect Hill Flag Raising on January 1, 2025. On this date in 1776, General George Washington raised the first American flag atop Prospect Hill, marking a pivotal moment in the Revolutionary War. Each New Year’s Day, the city honors this legacy with a community celebration.
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47 year old, white male, 5-11, 175 lbs.
Somerville Police Chief Shumeane Benford is asking for the community’s help in locating the pictured male. He is wanted on numerous outstanding arrest warrants. If seen, please call 911 and do not attempt to make contact with this person.
A Community Curator exhibition curated by Bruce Owens
January 16 – March 29, 2024
The Art of the Festival features photographs, cultural artifacts, and works of fine art and popular culture that tell the story of the largest festival of the Kathmandu Valley. Practiced for nearly 1,400 years, this festival is devoted to a rain god who is honored by both Hindus and Buddhists and is known by many names, Buṃgadyaḥ and Rāto Matysendranāth foremost among them. People of Kathmandu from all walks of life each play their part in creating a dramatic spectacle in which hundreds of people pull the deity in a towering chariot that is as precarious as it is massive. Their success or failure is tied to the fate of the country. The photographs at the core of this exhibition were taken by Bruce McCoy Owens over the past four decades and were shown by invitation in three major exhibitions in Nepal in 2016. Like the festival itself, the exhibit is a collaborative creation, and includes stories of people in the Somerville area who share their memories, as well as objects, that hold special meaning in connection with Nepalese festivities.
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Somerville Media Center will make the move to a newly renovated 4900 sqft community media facility at 29 Properzi Way in Somerville on January 3, 2025, after 16 months in a temporary location. Our general contractor, Menemsha Solutions, is wrapping up 18 weeks of construction and proceeding with mechanical, electrical, and fire inspections this week. Movers have been booked to transport equipment and resources from three remote storage facilities as well as pick up new furniture and fixtures purchased to fit our new space. Community members can soon step into the first brand new facility this organization has offered since 1983.
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