Join the Mystic Learning Center’s Casino Night for the 14^th Annual Spring for Children Fundraiser on Friday, May 10 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Hosted at Somernova (8 Tyler St., Somerville), The Casino Night themed event will include Casino Gaming Tables (Black Jack, Craps, Roulette, and Poker), raffle baskets, live music, delicious food, and a limited open bar, all in support of Mystic Learning Center, Inc.’s mission to improve the lives of low-income children and families who live in the Mystic Public Housing Development and surrounding neighborhoods.

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Mayor Ballantyne and OSPCD’s Public Space and Urban Forestry Division host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the expansion of the Glen Park Community Gardens.

The Archivists by Daphne Kalotay has also been named to the 2024 Longlist in Fiction.

Massachusetts Center for the Book (MCB) is pleased to announce the long-listed titles in the 24th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards program. These titles, previously referred to as the “Must Reads,” represent achievements in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature by Massachusetts writers and illustrators published during 2023.

Festival will feature Q&A and cooking demonstrations with local chefs, live dance, family activities, and community cookbook exhibit.

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, and the Somerville Office of Immigrant Affairs (SOIA), is inviting community members to join the Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival in celebration of Asian American Heritage Month. Somerville’s event will take place on Saturday, May 11, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Somerville High School (81 Highland Ave.). 

Mr. Jeremiah O’Leary passed away on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at the Cambridge Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Cambridge, he was 84. 

Spring Garden Day
Saturday, May 4, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m., Rain Date May 5
Celebrate spring with the annual Morris Dancing and participatory Maypole dance. Take home native seeds harvested at the Center. Bring and/ or take seeds or seedlings from a Seed Exchange Table. Learn about local pollinators and the related City Action Plan.

Join Tufts Engineers Without Borders for a grand opening tomorrow, May 4, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 1.p.m. of Project Greenhouse. They have been designing a greenhouse as a local project to work on building engineering skills and sustainability education. Their  project aims to have Civic and International focuses for both university students and the local community.

To learn  more visit https://sites.tufts.edu/ewb/

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Step into Somerville in 2050, an inspiring community where our collective efforts have triumphed in creating a climate-forward society. Participate in interactive art installations that depict our shared vision of resilience in the face of climate change.
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At this event, attendees joined the City of Somerville in celebrating the release of its updated community climate action plan—the Climate Forward plan on April 24, 2024.

By Emmett Biewald

A nonprofit organization based in Cambridge has been taking steps to change the way we learn about climate change. Climable was founded in 2012 with a goal of making climate science more understandable and actionable to a larger audience.