Join us for a West Branch Library Community Meeting on Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m., at the Somerville Community Baptist Church, 31 College Ave. At the meeting you can get updates from the project team and library staff on the plans to renovate the library, ask questions, and provide feedback. For more information, please call the Capital Projects and Planning Department at 617-625- 6600 ext. 5120.

GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS SATURDAY, November 12, the 317th day of 2016 with 49 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:25 and sunset is @ 4:31. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, Mars, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are Mercury, Neptune & Saturn.

ON THIS DAY IN: 1799 – Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys.  Continue reading GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS by John Dwyer  →

Photos by Skip Murray

By William Tauro 

Each year for the past four, members associated with Historic Somerville, the Somerville Museum, and the City’s Historic Preservation Commission have organized a brief event to help honor some of Somerville’s oldest veterans, from the American Revolution and the War of 1812 who are buried in the City’s historic Milk Row Cemetery on Somerville Avenue. Continue reading Somervillle’s Veterans’ Day Ceremony at Milk Row Cemetery →