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Susan Sklan is a social worker and published poet, an Australian now living in the Boston area. Her poems have appeared in Constellations, Folio, Kalliope, Nixes Mate, Pleiades, Sojourner, Soul-Lit, The Centennial Review, The Muddy River Poetry Review, and other journals and anthologies. On passing an old lover’s address was chosen by the Cambridge MA, Sidewalk Poetry Program, 2018, and installed on a city sidewalk. Her poetry chapbook The Letters was published by Main Street Rag, 2023. Her poetry book The Lost Garden is to be published by Finishing LIne Press, 2026.

UPDATE 9/15 The Parking Department is open.

The City’s Parking Department (133 Holland St.) is closed to the public as of 9:45 a.m. on 9/15 and until further notice due to a power outage in the area. The nearby TAB building and Council on Aging Holland Street Center are not currently affected by the outage. Visit the City’s website for updates: https://www.somervillema.gov/

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Erika Uyterhoeven has won the Senate seat. The campaign is over. Now comes the part that matters: results.

Erika has introduced plenty of legislation and attached her name to many proposals. But introducing a bill isn’t the same as getting it passed.

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State Senator-Elect Erika Uyterhoeven speaking at Somerville for Palestine’s candidate forum

By Somerville for Palestine

Across the country, we continue to see that standing with Palestine has become essential to winning Democratic primaries. Pro-Palestine candidates are bucking the establishment to win elections based on people power and with support from local organizing groups. Massachusetts’ 2nd Middlesex district maintained this trend, electing State Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven to be the district’s next state senator.

Somerville resident Derrick Rice (he/him) today announced his campaign for Somerville Ward 3 City Council, in anticipation of a special election(1) after current W3 Councilor Ewen-Campen’s Democratic Party primary victory for State Representative (27th Middlesex).

Mayor Wilson and Somerville Arts and Culture and its working session focused on how a Municipal Cultural Trust could function.