~Photo by Bobbie Toner

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Chief of Police Charles Femino have confirmed that Darien Burns, 53, of Somerville has been arrested and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury in connection with the fatal stabbing of Joseph Muzzi, 33, of Weymouth that occurred last night inside the Spin Cycle laundromat on Main Street in Somerville.

All are invited to join Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and City staff for Somerville’s 2022 holiday celebrations throughout the month of December.

School Committee selected Massachusetts Association of School Committees to lead search efforts

The Somerville School Committee officially launched the search for Somerville’s next Superintendent of Schools in November 2022 with the selection of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) to lead the district’s Superintendent search process.

Food For Free’s Heat-N-Eats program is helping

Hunger is a struggle that can often be invisible at first glance. Christopher Hope, Founder and CEO of Loop Lab – a BIPOC led nonprofit social enterprise that specializes in media arts internships and digital storytelling in Greater Boston – has experienced first-hand how becoming more intimately aware of the gaps in food access has allowed him to identify food insecurity amongst his students.

Legal Help for Green Card Holders Applying for U.S. Citizenship Will Be Available December 3, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  

The Somerville Office of Immigrant Affairs and Project Citizenship will host Somerville Citizenship Day on Saturday, December 3, at St. Anthony’s Church, located at 12 Properzi Way, Somerville, MA. Free food will be provided.  

Attention SMALL MART shoppers: you have two opportunities to support local businesses this holiday season with a new curated vendor market. The SMALL MART shopping experience will feature over 50 local vendors of vintage, handmade, fine art goods.

Prince William and Kate Middleton visited Somerville’s Greentown Labs today as part as their visit to Boston for the Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony.

The Somerville Rotary Club hosted a fundraiser with the Kiwanis and Lions Clubs of Somerville at the Mount Vernon Restaurant last week. Known as a Tri-Club meeting, the three service clubs raised money, food, and personal items for the Somerville Homeless Coalition’s Project Soup and Respond Inc.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

In 1969 I was 16 years old. I landed a job as a stock boy at Woolworths five and ten cent store in Davis Square. We called it Woolies. Woolworths was where Starbucks is now. I started out doing the stock room duties and got promoted all the way up to luncheonette worker where my favorites were grilled cheese sandwiches and hotdogs.