When local daylight time is about to reach
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2:00:00 am clocks are turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00:00 am local standard time instead.

Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on November 2 than the day before. There will be more light in the morning and less light in the evening.

Your city, your voice, your vote. Next week on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, the City of Somerville will hold its Municipal Election, open to all registered voters in Somerville.

November SNAP benefits could be delayed if the federal government doesn’t resolve the shutdown or provide emergency funding. SNAP provides about $212 million each month to Massachusetts residents. Benefits are issued between the 1st and 14th. Both SNAP recipients as well as grocery stores and farmers (who will see decreased food purchases) will be affected. 

Funding for the 2025-2026 Warming Center operation was approved at the Finance Committee’s latest meeting.

By Jordan Pagkalinawan

On Tuesday, October 21, the Somerville Finance Committee met to review requests to fund three community-oriented projects, approve prior-year invoices, and extend two design services contracts.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

If there’s ever a real argument comparing these days to the good old days, two words can help win the discussion, full-size. Not just candy bars either. Back then, there was no such thing as a fun size. And instead of a regular-sized goody bag, my friends and I carried full-size pillowcases. Everything back then (’60s–‘80s) was bigger. Cars were bigger, toys seemed bigger, and, of course, Halloween candy bars were … full-size.

This service change is taking place to continue work to install Green Line Train Protection System infrastructure

The MBTA is reminding riders that Green Line service will be suspended between Park Street and Union Square as well as Medford/Tufts beginning at approximately 8 PM through the end of service on Tuesday, November 4, and continuing for the following nine days, November 5 – 13.

Assembly Square’s Innovation District, possible future home of TransMedics Group, Inc.
 — Photo by Bobbie Toner

By Harry Kane

The city is offering an incentive package to TransMedics Group, Inc. that would yield a whopping $74.56 million in tax revenue over the next decade if the medical device manufacturer moves its global headquarters to Somerville.