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It is that time of year again to put in your wreath order with the Somerville Community Growing Center.
In addition to our wreaths being a beautiful, hand-decorated craft item, your purchase helps support programming and maintenance at the Growing Center. With that said, we would like to say how greatly appreciative we are for your support and community love. These wreaths include handmade bows, in choice of three colors (red, burgundy or purple), cones and other natural materials.
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Episodes begin taping January 2019 at WGBH Studios
For the sixth time, Somerville High School will compete on WGBH’s High School Quiz Show. Somerville High School will join 15 other academic teams from across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to compete on the tenth anniversary season.
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Through a collaboration with the Office of Sustainability, DPW and Garbage to Gardens, four Somerville Public Schools kicked off a pilot recycling and composting program during lunch in October. With the support of school staff and Garbage to Garden staff and volunteers, students have learned to sort recycling, compost and trash into the appropriate receptacles at the Argenziano, Brown, Healey and Kennedy schools.
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It’s almost that time of year again. The annual Next Wave/Full Circle Tree Lot will be open November 30 through December 19. Stop by and pick up a holiday tree and/or wreath, and support Somerville youth.
All proceeds from the Tree Lot sales go toward student programming. The Tree Lot will be located at the Full Circle Garden on Cross Street, between Otis and Bonair streets. The Lot is staffed by Next Wave/Full Circle students and staff and will be open from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Saturdays, and 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Sundays.
~Photos by Ryan Glover
By Ryan Glover
MC Lars is a rapper who is known for creating the genre of hip-hop know as “lit-hop” and he is currently on tour with the Chicago rock band I Fight Dragons.
Tuesday night in Somerville’s Thunder Road was a momentous occasion when the Stanford University graduate, Tedx speaker, and all around mic controller hit the stage with fans driving from as far as Portland, Maine and New Hampshire to witness the clever wordsmith live in the flesh.
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Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte
When you hit the “send” button, it’s on. On Facebook and traceable forever. That photo you posted will be in internet cyberspace long after you are gone. You “sent” it into eternity.
Everything anyone posts on social media has the potential of coming back and causing trouble. A simple “screenshot” will capture an image of a post forever. Once you hit send, it’s written in cement. If you have a few cocktails before “going on Facebook” then the potential for “drunk posting” rears its ugly head.
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The Somerville Board of Aldermen issued an Aldermanic Communication at their latest regular meeting last week resolving to improve emergency medical response systems in the city.
By Jim Clark
Following the tragic loss of Laura Levis, who died after suffering an asthma attack while unsuccessfully seeking emergency care at Somerville Hospital in September, the City of Somerville Board of Aldermen officially expressed its intent to work towards helping improve systems involving emergency response, care and education related to asthma.
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We need a condo conversion process that protects the vulnerable and maintains diversity
(The opinions and views expressed in the commentaries and letters to the Editor of The Somerville Times belong solely to the authors and do not reflect the views or opinions of The Somerville Times, its staff or publishers)
By Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone
As our city seeks to update its condo conversion ordinance, two things we should keep front and center are displacement and access. Condo conversion may seem like a dull, straightforward process, but the way it works inside our city–and many others–has taken on unforeseen and undesirable consequences. Too many people are being displaced as units move from the more affordable end of the rental market into luxury owner occupancy. Lower- and middle-income households have few genuine opportunities to participate in the process. While we want to create a path toward home ownership for those who seek it in our city, we need to make sure tenants have protections and that the condo conversion process works for everyone.
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