MassDOT is scheduled to install a raised crosswalk on Holland Street at the MBTA Station. Weather permitting, construction will begin on Sunday, August 19, at approximately 2 a.m. and continue through Wednesday, August 22.  During this period, the Buena Vista Parking Lot will remain open. However no vehicular traffic will be allowed on Holland Street from Winter Street to Dover Street.

SomerVision’s twenty-year plan goes into action in June, impacting many Somerville neighborhoods.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Ward 1 Alderman Bill Roche invite all interested residents and stakeholders to attend a community meeting on Monday, August 13, to present the construction schedule for the East Broadway Streetscape Project.

– Photos by Lisa Heyison and Bobbie Toner

On The Silly Side by Jimmy Del Ponte

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I peeped into a colleague’s office to say hi last week and we got on the subject of the songs of 1966. We were both 13 years old back then and we couldn’t believe all the great songs that came out that year.

Somerville Police Chief Thomas Pasquarello confirmed today that on Monday, August 6, at approximately 4:55 a.m., a prisoner in the custody of the Somerville Police Department suffered an unknown medical event while inside a cell at Police Headquarters. Police officers attempted to revive the prisoner and immediately summoned emergency medical assistance. He was transported by ambulance to Cambridge Hospital where he died a short time later.

The Hungry Tiger Festival roars into town this coming Saturday.

By Tatiana Kombo

On Saturday, August 11, Union Square will be home to the second annual Hungry Tiger Festival, a Somerville Arts Council event. From 6 to 10 p.m., the square will be transformed into a bustling and ethnically diverse market in which varied “gastronomic and cultural riches” will be on display.

By Joseph A. Curtatone

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In last week’s announcement of Somerville’s Union Square Green Line station agreement with MassDOT and the MBTA, Mimi Graney, the energetic and effective executive director of Union Square Main Streets, referred to the Square as “Somerville’s first downtown.” That’s both historically true and a prediction of good things to come.

– Photos by Bobbie Toner

Somerville’s 9th Annual National Night Out” (NNO)  is a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW).  The  event took place  August 7, at Foss Park.

By Jim Clark

Police officers were dispatched to 61 Union Square last Saturday of a report of a drunken man urinating in public.

Shape Up Somerville (SUS) will drive trucks that will contain local produce to various areas, around the city at which mobile farmers markets will be set up.

By Cathleen Twardzik

To ensure that healthy, fresh food is available to the city’s residents, Shape Up Somerville (SUS) will drive trucks that will contain local produce to various areas, around the city at which mobile farmers markets will be set up.