Phil Reavis, Sr. receives a tour of the new SHS gym from SHS staff.

All are invited to celebrate the completion of Somerville High School’s new athletic field,  the Philip Reavis, Sr. Field. The High School has long operated without a practice field onsite making this a momentous occasion. Join Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, Somerville Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Rubén Carmona, City Council President and Ward Three Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen, and more for a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony. Events will take place on Thursday, October 26 at 12:00 p.m.

Local slacker-rock group, Otis Shanty, of Prospect Hill, has kicked off their fall 2023 Early Birds tour. Otis Shanty is made up of friends, Sadye Bobbette, Ryan DiLello, Julian Snyder, and Jono Quinn. 

Yesterday the Massachusetts Senate voted and passed Senator Patricia Jehlen’s (D-Somerville) bill S.1191 An Act relative to pay range transparency for a vote. Known as the“Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act,” after the first woman to serve as U.S. Labor Secretary, this legislation builds on the state’s landmark Equal Pay Act, also originally sponsored by Senator Jehlen.

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Free Open Streets event to feature live music, family-friendly activities, and more!

Join us at the last SomerStreets festival of the year, the spooky and fun “Monster Mash” on Sunday, October 22, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. (rain date Oct 29) on Somerville Ave. between School Street and Warren Avenue. SomerStreets is the City of Somerville’s take on the internationally renowned Open Streets concept, closing busy city streets to vehicles. Through SomerStreets, the City and its community partners aim to promote and encourage reconnecting with neighborhoods and businesses and their unique cultural elements in a thriving urban environment. 

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

One of our family heirlooms is one of the last bottles of my grandfather’s homemade wine. It’s in a Ballantine Ale bottle. I remember my father saying it was either really good wine or very bad vinegar. It remains unopened in my kitchen cupboard but I thought I’d look into winemaking in Somerville by starting with my grandpa.

Owners Linda Gritz and Michael Katz of 3 Emerson St., a mid-18th century house on edge of new high rises, who would like to be designated as part of an expanded local historic district in Union Square. — Photos by Jeanine Farley

Some 60 participants – some from as far away as Sharon, MA – took part in a walking tour of Union Square last Sunday. The almost 3-hour walk, entitled Union Square on the Cusp of Change with New Developments and Sensitive Preservation, was led architectural historian Ed Gordon.