Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 3 Alderman Robert McWatters, and the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD) invite all interested community members to a community meeting to discuss the upcoming Stormwater & Park Project planned at Nunziato Park on Summer Street (between Prescott St. and Putnam St.). The meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 21, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., in the Somerville High School Library. 81 Highland Ave. For more information, please contact Luisa Oliveira at LOliveira@somervillema.gov, or Bryan Manter at BManter@somervillema.gov.

Non-profit community organizations in Somerville, Medford, Grafton and Boston’s Chinatown, Mission Hill and Fenway neighborhoods are invited to apply for 2016 grants from the Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund (TNSF).  TNSF collects donations from faculty and staff throughout the year and then awards small grants to community-based, charitable organizations that serve Tufts’ host communities.

Eunice Kwon (left) and Colleen Morrissey discuss experiences with ageism, during a recent forum at Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services about age discrimination and cultural perceptions of aging.

By Corinne Lofchie

Age discrimination and disrupting cultural attitudes toward growing older were the topics of a recent clinical forum at Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES).

The discussion was led by SCES Elder Care Advisor Corinne Lofchie, who explained that negative assumptions about aging are widespread, insidious, and can have profound impacts.

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The city gratefully received the citation and recognition by Road Runners Club of America.

By Jean Knaack

With a history that stretches back to the Colonial times, Somerville is a quintessential New England town. During the Revolutionary War, Paul Revere’s famous ride to warn of approaching British troops took place through parts of city.

By Joseph A. Curtatone

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Winter is quickly approaching. And as we New Englanders know, when the cooler temperatures arrive, the snow – and all the fun and aggravation it brings us – is typically not far behind. Here at City Hall snow preparations are already underway, but there is one big change on the horizon for this winter season that we need you to prepare for: the switch to even-side parking during snow emergencies.

Left to right: Diana Young, Emily Foster, Megan Costa, and Maureen Foster.

By Maureen Foster

The Alex Foster Foundation’s HopeFULL Backpack Program recently donated filled backpacks to CASPAR (Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Rehabilitation).

By Jim Clark

On the morning of November 8, a Somerville police officer, while assigned to uniform patrol in marked cruiser, took notice as a motor vehicle made a right turn from Pinckney St. onto Washington St. at a high rate of speed.

The officer queried the license plate through the registry of motor vehicles.  The result showed that the plate belonged to a 2004 Honda Accord sedan color red, even though the car in question was a gray Nissan Murano.

Villens United by Chris Haskell

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History books will not speak kindly of the 2016 president election. Although political campaigns have gotten dirty in the past, none have been more ugly and divisive than the campaign’s run in this election. For many their vote was passionately choosing who they didn’t want to be president more than who they did. I myself was guilty of that charge.