Britney Flores of Somerville is one of eight recipients of four-year, full-tuition Berklee City Music Scholarships this year. She has participated in Berklee City Music programming for three years, focusing on vocal performance.

By Jim Clark

Somerville Police officers were dispatched to a Newton St. location last week for a check condition call.

The reporting party stated that her neighbor, Christine Harding, was attacking her, and it has been reported that there is an extensive history of disputes between the reporting party and Harding, and they have even been physical with each other in the past.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

There’s so much construction throughout the city that safe sidewalks should be a top priority. I live near Davis Square so the photos are from Elm St. Where the sidewalks are particularly bad? Here’s what you said.

By Maeve Lawler

Somergloom Festival returns on Saturday, August 27, for a day filled with music, art, games, food, and more.

The festival’s lineup features “Junius, Glacier, SEA, Dreamwell, Consumer, Queen Elephantine, Ashen Veil, Crone Visions, Lesotho, Dysthymia, Heavy Hands, and visuals by The Dregs Liquid Light Show,” as stated on Somergloom’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/301663368752310.

Mayor Ballantyne, Ward 3 Councilor Ben Ewen Campen and members of the Somerville Community Land Trust celebrate the first property acquisition of SCLT, located at 7 Summer Street.

By The Times Staff

The Somerville Community Land Trust hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the first community land trust project in Somerville on Wednesday, August 17. The project, funded by the City of Somerville, the Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and Winter Hill Bank, brings five permanently affordable homes to Somerville’s Union Square Neighborhood.

Father and son literary power duo Paul and Charlie Carafotes.

By Jim Clark

In the years following the publication of Somerville native Paul Carafotes’ delightful children’s book, The Adventures of Charlie Bubbles, the author has followed up that initial offering with a successful string of sequels. And now, the actual inspiration for the first book – his own son Charlie – is following in his father’s footsteps by penning his own forthcoming contribution to the series, Charlie Bubbles! Zena the Great!

The Somerville Flea is now open every Sunday in Davis Square now through mid-October. ~ Photo courtesy of Somerville Flea

By Fernando Cervantes Jr.

Local Somerville resident Greg Ghazil is the founder and operations director for The Somerville Flea, a local flea market. Open for the last 10 years, the market has grown and become a large part of the Davis Square community every August.

Looking to vote early in the 2022 State Primary Election? In-person early voting will be held in the Council Chambers at City Hall (93 Highland Ave.) from Saturday, August 27, to Friday, September 2. Residents can also apply to vote by mail. Applications must be received by the Elections Office by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, to vote by mail in the State Primary. For more information or to register to vote, visit somervillema.gov/earlyvoting.

Members of the Kiwanis Club of Somerville and many of the PUMA volunteers.

For the third year, members of the Kiwanis Club of Somerville delivered over 200 backpacks filled with school supplies to middle and high school students who are most in need of assistance. The students who will receive these backpacks will be identified by the Somerville Parent Information Center and the administrators at Prospect Hill Academy.