For the second year in a row, Neville Place Assisted Living is grand sponsor for a free monthly social gathering geared toward people with dementia or memory loss.
Neville Place is sponsoring the Cambridge Connections Memory Café, which is a joint effort of Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) and the Cambridge Council on Aging. Open to people with memory loss and their care partners, the café is a welcoming space that features activities everyone can enjoy, explained SCES Director of Outreach and Community Relations Nathan Lamb.
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Deputy Chief James Lucia worked his last shift with the Somerville Fire Department on February 25, capping a forty-year career with the Department. Appointed in 1980, Lucia served the past twenty-seven years as a Deputy Chief. He was commended for his actions several times during his career, which included the rescue of a child during a serious house fire and a water rescue in the Mystic River.
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and members of the Tufts Partnership Negotiating Committee invite residents to a community meeting on Thursday, March 5, for an update on the current status of negotiations with Tufts University about a new Partnership Agreement between the city and the University.
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The Somerville Historic Preservation Commission is seeking volunteers for its 2020 Docent Program. Somerville’s Docent Program operates on a scheduled basis during the months of May through October. Public openings are offered twice a month, on specific weekend days and on Thursday evenings, at three historic sites: the Milk Row Cemetery on Somerville Avenue, Prospect Hill Tower above Union Square, and the Old Powder House in Nathan Tufts Park.
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“SomerVIP” launches March 4 with community event
Program offers incentives, technical support for landlords and realtors who lease to residents holding vouchers.
The Somerville Office of Housing Stability (OHS) and the Somerville Homeless Coalition are launching SomerVIP, a Section 8 Voucher Incentive Program, and invite community members to a kickoff event on Wednesday, March 4, to learn more, including how landlords and realtors can receive incentives and technical support through the program.
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By Jim Clark
Somerville Police officers were dispatched to the Home Depot store on Mystic Ave. last Sunday on reports of a shoplifter who refused to stop for the store Asset Protection Specialist.
The alleged shoplifter, later identified as Marc Jacob, was detained behind Home Depot by a police detective.
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Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte
“High Yo Fitzie! Hi Mrs. F can Fitzie come out to play?”
Remember when you’d stand outside your friends’ house and “call” for them? Often we’d use a nickname. This is the second story I’ve done on the nicknames we had for each other growing up in Somerville. I asked my Somerville friends to try to recall those shortened names we had for each other and here they are.
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By Shira Laucharoen
Somerville officials and local organizations have been responding to the Trump administration’s decision to deploy 100 border patrol agents to ten major sanctuary cities, including Somerville, in February. These officers will be assisting with run of the mill immigration arrests, in cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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