Mudflat Pottery School to Host Military Parents and their Children for a Day with Clay

September is back to school month for families, meaning that quality parent/child time can be hard to come by. Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program, is teaming up with Mudflat Pottery School in Somerville, MA, to bring local military parents and their children together for a few hours of free, educational fun with clay.

“It” awaits the pleasure of your company at the Somerville Theatre, in Davis Square.

By Dre Joseph

In the summer of 1989, a group of high school social outcasts in the Americana town of Derry, Maine are brought together by vicious bullying and uncaring adults to investigate a rash of missing children taken by a demon who appears in the form of a clown and uses their worst fears against them.

By Somerville Labor Coalition

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The City of Somerville joined the Group Insurance Commission (GIC), the Commonwealth’s health plan for public employees, in 2011. At the time, several press reports suggested that Somerville’s unions overwhelmingly agreed.

Saturday, October 7th, 2017 – 9 a.m.,Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144

Race starts and ends at the end of the bike path – behind Rite Aid on Highland Avenue and Grove Street.

The Somerville Public Library and Somerville Media Center invite you to celebrate your right to read! Come and read excerpts from various banned books. If you wish to participate, just show up with a book that has been threatened to be banned or pick from a reading that the library provides.

The event will take place at the Somerville Public Library (Central Library) on Saturday, September 30 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 79 Highland Ave.

Graham, seen here in the red shirt, won the bottle rocket challenge at STEM Education Day at Fenway last week.

Students from about 20 schools throughout the Boston area took part in a STEM Education Day at Fenway Park last week, as part of the CITGO STEM Talent Pipeline Program offered in partnership with the Boston Red Sox.

150 students from the West Somerville Neighborhood School and the Argenziano School were among the hundreds of students who spent the day participating in STEM activities at Fenway Park, then took in an afternoon Red Sox game against the A’s. Graham, from the West Somerville Neighborhood School, took top honors in the bottle rocket challenge that afternoon.

~Photo by Bobbie Toner

A motor vehicle crashed into a home at the corner of Sterling St. and Alewife Brook Pkwy. shortly after noon today, after hitting another moving vehicle which appeared to have sustained significant damage.

Emergency responders were soon on the scene, tending to those who were involved in the accident. Although the driver of the crashed vehicle was transported to the hospital for treatment, the injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.

By Jim Clark

Police officers were dispatched to Saint Patrick’s Shelter on Washington St. last Friday evening on reports of a resident refusing a request for her to leave.

Upon our arrival, the officers spoke to a facility staff member who reportedly said that a resident, Lidiya Pasholikova, missed curfew, and by policy was automatically barred from the shelter for three days.

By Joseph A. Curtatone

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A monthly look at ways to get involved with your city: Don’t just live in Somerville, be Somerville

ResiStat season is upon us. At this twice-yearly series of community meetings (we hold one in each ward) you have the opportunity to interact with me, your aldermen, other elected officials, leaders from the Somerville Police Department, City staff—and your neighbors. We’ll be sharing the latest city and neighborhood updates as well as the data-based problem solving discussions that help drive decision making here at City Hall. ResiStat meetings are a great way to get involved at the neighborhood level and often serve as gateway meetings to deeper involvement and a pathway to the kind of ground-up leadership and civic contributions that makes our city thrive.

A local family poses with Jumbo the elephant in front of a statue of Jumbo at Tufts Community Day on Sept. 24.

Tufts University, in cooperation with the cities of Medford and Somerville, hosted the 15th annual Community Day festival on Sunday, Sept. 24. The event was held on the Tufts University Academic Green in the center of the Medford/Somerville campus. This annual event is a wonderful opportunity for neighbors, residents and families of the cities to explore the work and accomplishments of community organizations and city departments. Live performances included dance, song, music and a street band parade by the School of Honk. Student artists provided face painting, caricature drawing and craft activities. A free BBQ lunch and refreshments was served.