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GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS TUESDAY, December 10, the 344th day of 2019 with 21 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 7:02 and sunset is @ 4:11. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
ON THIS DAY IN: 1520 – Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict. The papacy demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused and was formally expelled from the church in January 1521. Continue reading GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS by John Dwyer →

Happy Birthday to a number of Villens celebrating their birthdays this week in the Ville! Happy Birthday to Jason Castle, Jimmy Veneziano, Gravin Zaiyken Guillen, Frankie Santangelo, Mariamanuela Bairos, Maureen Graziano, Fred Castle, Neil W McCabe, Eva Montebello, Carl Stagliano, Michael Walsh, Lu Ro, Patrick Healey, John L DeSimone, Patty Hanberry Gately, Irene Bremis, Frank Novello, Holly Boyden Saulnier, Debbie Mahoney, Carol Siciliano Bailey, Kathy Barrett-Pitcher, Joseph Nargie, Cheryl Callahan, Joe Pereira, Lisa Rodes, Patricia Zirpolo, Annamarie Tortora, Joe Roberts and Happy Birthday to Mrs Deoliveira

Sent in by our readers! Continue reading The Somerville News Weekly Favorite Birthday Photos of the Week →

Meet this week’s “Special Person of the Week:Pete Frates

By: Kirk Fox/ Legacy.com

Pete Frates raised millions of dollars for ALS research by popularizing the ALS ice bucket challenge. Frates was a captain on the Boston College baseball team who was diagnosed with ALS in 2012. Continue reading Somerville News Weekly Special Person of the Week Salutes Pete Frates →

Somerville High School Class of 1999

Continue reading Recent High School Reunion Photos of the Week →

Video by Bill Gioiosa

Continue reading The Commons Luxury Rental Units One & Two Bedrooms 434 McGrath Highway Somerville →

By Joe Viglione

As we get closer to Christmas and New Year there’s still lots of rock and roll to absorb. Check out my newsletter club-bohemia.com where you can get some previews of this column a few days before. Continue reading Hotline to the Underground Dec 9-15 2019 By Joe Viglione →

By Arthur Moore

I could not stay for all of it. Brad Rawson spoke but gave a lot of stats which I personally have no faith in as the city is not back in working order to get those yet. Continue reading Restore Broadway meeting Dec 9th By Arthur Moore →