The MBTA announced service changes in December on the Green, Orange, Silver, and Newburyport/Rockport Commuter Rail lines. The MBTA will continue working to improve service reliability across the system.

Tufts University President Sunil Kumar.

Tufts University President Sunil Kumar is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Somerville Chamber’s Annual Dinner and Awards on November 30.

Heat-n-Eats: Two community volunteers pose for a picture at Food For Free’s Heat-n-Eats kitchen at Biogen in Kendall Square, where the nonprofit turns rescued prepared food into single-serve microwavable meals on October 19. — Photos courtesy of Food for Free.

Thanksgiving is a lavish feast for most people. But many go hungry on this holiday. As 1 in 3 Massachusetts households faces food insecurity, it is estimated that Bay Staters discard one million pounds of food per year. Food For Free – the Robin Hood of the Greater Boston emergency food system – is dedicated to evening out this disparity by picking up food that would otherwise go to waste and re-distributing it to those in need.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

It’s getting harder and harder to own a car in Somerville. There are not enough municipal lots and they are taking away more and more parking meters every week. Pulling over to stop and run into a store has become very difficult. Here are social media comments from Somerville people.

— Photos courtesy of Somerville Police Department

On Tuesday, November 14, the Somerville Police Department and the Community Outreach, Help and Recovery (COHR) unit partnered with Autism Eats to host a very special Friendsgiving Dinner at Mount Vernon Restaurant.

Construction of the Glen Park Community Garden expansion kicked-off on Monday, November 20. — Photo courtesy of City of Somerville.

The City of Somerville kicked-off the construction of the Glen Park Community Garden expansion on Monday, November 20. Area residents and others joined Mayor Katjana Ballantyne in celebrating more inclusive access to community gardening amenities in Somerville.

The Somerville City Council’s Legislative Matters Committee recently discussed possible measures pertaining to rent stabilization in the city.

By Jennifer Purcell

The process to stabilize rent in Somerville is now well underway. On Tuesday, November 14, Somerville’s Legislative Matters Committee met once more to discuss the future of rent and how they could make the current and future situations as easy as possible for both renters and landlords by inviting the director of the Office of Housing Stability Ellen Shachter to give a presentation that detailed what enforcing rent stabilization would look like and how it would benefit the community.