Rachel Marta Greenberg (center) and about 40 others volunteered to make Meals on Wheels deliveries for Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services on Thanksgiving.

By Rachel Marta Greenberg

Thanksgiving is a day off for Meals on Wheels drivers at Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES), and volunteers help make that possible. This year I was very happy to be part of that effort.

I had no idea what to expect or how many people would participate. I was pleasantly surprised to see at least 40 men, women and children waiting to help on Thanksgiving morning.

— Photo by Bobbie Toner

The snow season has begun, to receive snow emergency announcements by phone, text message, or email, sign up at somervillema.gov/Alerts.

Make sure you’re in the know about what to do whenever  there is a snow emergency called by visiting http://somervillema.gov/snow , learn about  parking and shoveling rules.

Enjoy the sounds of the season and support our student musicians at upcoming Winter Concerts throughout the district:

• Brown School Winter Concert: Monday, December 11, 6:30 p.m. at the Somerville High School Auditorium, 81 Highland Avenue
• El Sistema Somerville Winter Concert: Tuesday, December 12, 7:00 p.m. at the ESCS Auditorium, 50 Cross St.
• Winter Hill School Winter Concert: Thursday, December 14, 9:30-11:15 a.m. at the SHS Auditorium, 81 Highland Ave.
• All-City Middle School Winter Concert: Thursday, December 14, 6:30 p.m. at the SHS Auditorium
• East Somerville Community School Winter Concert: Tuesday, December 19, 9:00-11:00 a.m. at the ESCS Auditorium
• Healey Grades 3-8 Winter Concert: Thursday, December 21, 9:15-10:30 a.m. at the Healey Cafeteria, 5 Meacham St.
• Somerville High School Winter Concert: Thursday, December 21, 6:30 p.m. at the SHS Auditorium
• Argenziano Winter Concert: Friday, December 22, 9:15-10:40 a.m. at the Argenziano School, 290 Washington St.

Somerville Neighborhood News (SNN) is a hyper-local news service created to help inform and strengthen the community. In an increasingly consolidated media landscape where corporate media companies have more control of local stations and their news content, SNN strives to give coverage to under-reported local issues and produce stories that are important to Somerville’s diverse population.

By Jim Clark

On Wednesday afternoon of last week, Somerville Police Dispatch received a call for shots fired in the area of Myrtle St. at Perkins St. Officers dispatched to the scene found one spent 9mm shell casing.

Witness reports provided police with descriptions of a male suspect and a vehicle seen leaving the area shortly after the shots were heard.

~Photos by Claudia Ferro

The Next Wave and Full Circle Alternative schools’ 22nd Annual Tree Lot Fundraiser is well underway at the Edgerly Building on the corner of Cross Street and Bonair Street.

The League of American Bicyclists last week recognized the City of Somerville with a Gold Level Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) award, advancing from the City’s previous Silver Level distinction. Somerville joins its neighbor Cambridge as one of only two communities in Massachusetts to earn the Gold Level award. There are 29 Gold Level Bicycle Friendly Communities across the country.

Allstate agency owners support nonprofits’ work to provide supportive services to survivors of domestic violence

Boston-area Allstate agency owners are coming together to host a supply drive to benefit Casa Myrna of Boston and RESPOND, Inc. of Somerville. The donations will support the nonprofits’ missions to provide shelter and supportive services to domestic violence survivors and their families. The supply drive is part of a multi-state Allstate Foundation Purple Purse^® donation effort that will benefit domestic violence nonprofits throughout Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C. and West Virginia.

The Tufts University Department of Music presents Tufts Sunday Concert Series – Tufts Wind Ensemble: Poetry in the Winds, by Tufts Wind Ensemble, in the Distler Performance Hall at the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center on Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 3 p.m.