The City of Somerville opened an overnight Winter Warming Center during the coldest months of the year to provide a safe, warm place to sleep for our residents experiencing homelessness. Open 5 p.m. – 7:30 a.m. daily through April 12. For questions about the Warming Center, call 311. If you need assistance getting to the Warming Center or after-hours assistance, please call (339) 242-4744. Email warmingcenter@somervillema.gov. The Cummings Building, 42 Prescott St.

Many teachers have great ideas on how to make their classrooms a better place for their students to learn math.  The teachers’ ideas frequently outrun the budget schools have for supplies and their own ability to subsidize their classroom.  The Somerville Mathematics Fund tries to fill this need through the generosity of their donors with grants of up to  $500.

Vendor applications are now open for the 22nd Annual Union Square Farmers Market, a producer-only market located in the heart of Union Square, with attendance of over 3,000 at the height of the season.

East Somerville Main Streets is  celebrating the everyday champions who make East Somerville better — the volunteers, organizers, helpers, and neighbors who show up, clean up, support others, and build community.

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A perfect recipe for brunch. I use a rice maker to cook, then keep the oats warm until I’m ready to serve. That means I can prepare other dishes without having to constantly stir the pot. Well, at least not this pot anyway.

Enough is enough already. Let’s hope we have seen the end of it for now. Only time will tell, but when it comes to putting up with the tiresome digging out and warming back up, we surely wish for the best.

As if clearing our sidewalks and driveways isn’t hard enough, we have had to contend with ridiculously cold, record-breaking low temperatures.

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Interview by Off the Shelf Correspondent John Wisniewski

John Wisniewski, a prolific interviewer of my acquaintance, asked if he could interview poet, publisher, activist Mark Pawlak. Mark is a highly regarded poet, publisher, and a mainstay of the poetry scene in the Boston/Cambridge and greater New England area.

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Peter F. Crowley is a prolific writer from the Boston area whose work spans short fiction, op-eds, poetry, and academic essays. His writing has appeared in publications such as Pif Magazine, New Verse News, Counterpunch, Common Dreams, The Galway Review, Digging Through the Fat, and The Opiate. He was a finalist in both the short story and poetry categories of Adelaide’s Award Anthologies. He is the author of two poetry collections, Those Who Hold Up the Earth and Empire’s End, as well as a short fiction collection, That Night and Other Stories.

CHA is recognized as a leader for excellence in nursing in psychiatric/behavioral health care