Somerville Times

13/08/2025

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Davis Square Neighborhood Council (DSNC) has been working towards 501.c-3 status for the past year. We are pleased to get to the point of electing our first Board.

13/08/2025

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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Donna Lees, age 65, of Milford, NH, who passed away peacefully on August 6, 2025.

13/08/2025

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By unanimous vote, the Somerville Planning Board at its July meeting adopted the Ballantyne Administration’s Assembly Square Neighborhood Plan, marking a significant milestone in the city’s efforts to guide sustainable development in one of its most rapidly evolving neighborhoods. Once fully imp...

13/08/2025

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Fortunately, the Somerville Housing Authority is working swiftly to rehouse these residents, and City departments and partners are coordinating temporary shelter and supports while those units are readied, but your help is needed as our neighbors rebuild their lives. 

13/08/2025

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By C. Scott Morris The Somerville Bicycle Advisory Committee, in a unanimous vote, endorsed comments for the upcoming Somerville Avenue design project. The vote took place in a meeting last Thursday at the City Hall Annex.

13/08/2025

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Detective Courtney Reece (left) and Officer Keighla McAloney (right) supervising bounce house fun. ~Photos by Norah Doyle

13/08/2025

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Join the Somerville Arts Council for 24 Hours of Culture, a free community party celebrating art, music, food, and joy as a strategy for liberation. Saturday, August 16, 4 – 10 p.m. (rain date August 17, same times) in Union Square Plaza. Expect live performances, hands-on art workshops, games, an...

13/08/2025

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Eagle Feathers #335 – Don’t Spill Your Coffee By Bob (Monty) Doherty Tradition has told us that a ninth-century Ethiopian shepherd once observed that some of his goats were behaving erratically. They were happier and livelier than others because they ate the magenta berries on a dark green shrub...

13/08/2025

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Those in public service to our city must be ready, willing, and able to rise to the occasion when called upon to do so. Each one of us, whoever we may be supporting in this year’s citywide election, is searching our hearts to determine whom we feel will best fill those roles.

13/08/2025

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13/08/2025

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Since Harvard University has a course on Taylor Swift in their catalogue, I thought, “What the heck, maybe I could use Swift as a teaching tool.” During class we discussed the Found poem. And our exercise that day was to create a ‘Found’ poem based on Taylor Swift’s recent album release.

13/08/2025

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Bridget Seley-Galway artist/poet’s collections of poems, What Moments Yield, was published by Ibbetson Press, and Shorelines was published by Wilderness Press, and are included in several permanent collections. Her poems have also been published in Provincetown Magazine, Somerville Times Lyrical, ...