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Starts at Cedar St. Intersection of Community Path
The City’s annual vigil walk, in honor of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, will be held on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, at 6 p.m. The vigil will begin with a procession stepping off from the Cedar Street intersection of the Community Path, and will conclude with a short ceremony in Davis Square. The entire Somerville community is invited to participate.
For more information, please call Jackie Rossetti at 617-625-6600, ext. 2614.
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The Somerville Arts Council & Puppet Showplace Theater with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, present Puppet Palooza 2018! Puppet Palooza is a collaborative event series designed to bring the art of puppetry to East Somerville in unexpected places. This year’s lineup includes the following original new works designed for outdoor settings. FREE!
Tuesday, September 11, 6:00pm (rain date 9/12) @ Chuckie Harris Park, 3-17 Cross Street E:
Judy Punches Back! By Sarah Nolen – After being pushed around for over 200 years, Judy has had enough! Now, audiences can cheer on this hilarious hand puppet hero as she goes on a quest for respect, justice, and a well-deserved nap. This feisty, modern, feminist adaptation of the traditional Punch and Judy puppet show is appropriate for all ages.
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Free Open Streets event to feature live music, family-friendly activities, and more!
Come sing along at “Strike up the Bands,” the September installment of the City’s SomerStreets festival, on Sunday, September 16, from 2 to 6 p.m. between School St. and Lowell St. on Highland Ave. SomerStreets is the City of Somerville’s take on the internationally renowned Open Streets concept, closing busy city streets to vehicles, and opening them up for cycling, walking, dancing, running, and other modes of activity. Through SomerStreets, the City and its community partners aim to promote and encourage easy access to physical activity, fresh foods, and reconnecting with neighborhoods and businesses and their unique cultural elements in a thriving urban environment.
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The City of Somerville is developing a campus plan for Central Hill, home to City Hall, Somerville High School, the Central Library, and Central Playground. Please join us on Tuesday, September 25, at 6 p.m. for a meeting in the High School cafeteria to help shape the plan. Our project consultants, SMMA, will present three ideas for the design of Central Hill for public input. These designs are based on community input from the first meeting held on May 31 and from the Veterans’ Commission on Monuments, Memorials, and Dedications, which has authority over the location of the City’s war memorials. Based on the input from the Sept. 25 meeting, SMMA will move forward to refine one concept that will be presented to the community in October.
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Neville Place Executive Director Angela DeAngelis (right) recently met with Cambridge Connections Memory Café organizers Nancy Quigg-Gonsolves (left) and Maryellen McEleney. Neville Place recently became Grand Sponsor for the café, helping Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services and the Cambridge Council on Aging defray costs of the free event. ~ Photo courtesy of Neville Place.
Neville Place Assisted Living is now grand sponsor for a free monthly social gathering geared toward people with dementia or forgetfulness.
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.
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The Somerville Arts Council is pleased to announce the availability of its 2019 Local Cultural Council (LCC) grant program. Artists, community groups, and schools may apply for funding to the Council for projects and fellowships for 2019. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2018.
If you are interested in applying for funding for arts and cultural work in 2019, please review the Arts Council’s guidelines at www.somervilleartscouncil.org/grants/grantforms, and plan to attend one of the following workshops:
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Way back when I had more energy, I tried my hand at flipping a house. An auctioneer I was working with was always cleaning out houses prior to them going on the market. He’d be carrying out the big furniture, hiring guys, renting trucks and dumpsters so they could make a few hundred dollars on some old crappy couches, tables and other heavy objects that would rip a tendon out of your arm.
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The First National Band Redux comes to Somerville
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All revamped and road ready, Michael Nesmith and The First National Band Redux is headed to Somerville for a performance at the Somerville Theatre on September 19. ~ Photos by Ed Heffelfinger
By Jim Clark
By the end of the 1960’s, former cast/band member of the wildly popular television show The Monkees, Michael Nesmith, was reaching out for new direction in his pursuit of his musical interests.
Frustrated by the rejection he faced while trying to get his compositions accepted by the producers of the show, he eventually opted out and began putting together his own band. The result was the First National Band, featuring Nesmith on guitar and vocals, John London playing bass, John Ware on the drums, and pedal steel guitar wizard O.J. “Red” Rhodes.
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Update from the Somerville Police Department:
On Friday, September 7, members of the Boston Police Fugitive Unit with assistance from the Somerville Police Department and Massachusetts State Police arrested Lorne Harrison, 53, of Mattapan, on a warrant for Armed Robbery and other violations. Somerville Police have confirmed that Harrison is the suspect being sought this week following an armed robbery of Kay Jewelers at Assembly Row in Somerville on August 30, 2018. Harrison will be arraigned in U.S. Federal Court.
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