Somerville is invited to get their dancing shoes on as the 2024 SomerStreets: Carnaval returns Sunday, June 2, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. (rain date Sunday, June 9) to kick off the 2024 SomerStreets season, which will include a series of four neighborhood street festivals across Somerville. 

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Dear Chairman Ercolini,

On May 14th, Cobble Hill residents gathered in a community space to watch a Zoom webinar of the 90 Washington Street Civic Advisory Committee’s (CAC) recommendations to the Somerville Redevelopment Authority (SRA). The presentation gave us a better understanding as to why Cobble Hill Apartments got dissevered in 2019 when the SRA voted to approve the 90 Washington Street Demonstration Project.

By Dennis Fischman

It’s strange that there’s a whole genre of mystery we call the “Nordic noir.” Scandinavia consists of six or eight different countries, after all, and we wouldn’t lump Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Guido Brunetti, and Jimmy Perez together and call them “European detectives.”

Nancy Bacci and Joe Lynch host the annual Somerville Memorial Day Parade on May 26, 2024

An Exhibition of Work by Jennifer Erbe and Carolyn Muskat

Jennifer Erbe and Carolyn Muskat have been friends for over 40 years.  As artists, they have had thousands of conversations about their work and their ideas.  They have both focused on expressing the world around them in visual ways – each from their own unique perspective.  Their work sometimes overlaps and highlights parallel interests; sometimes it creates a discourse in opposition. This exhibition celebrates a selection of work that has been sparking recent conversations between them about content, media and the act of making images.

Change will precede construction of streetscape improvements including new sidewalks, cycle tracks in each direction, and new tree plantings. — Photo courtesy of City of Somerville

Beginning on Monday, June 17 or soon after, the segment of Central Street between Summer Street and Highland Avenue will become a permanently one-way northbound (travel from Summer St. north toward Highland Ave.) street for vehicle traffic.  

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

Back in the 60’s and 70’s the Somerville YMCA offered a summer day camp program. I attended and it was a lot of fun. Mom would pack a nice lunch with bologna sandwiches, and I’d get dropped off at the YMCA for the day. I remember visiting Hood’s Cherry Hill farm with all the cows, etc. I asked our readers to share their memories of YMCA Day Camp with us.