Walles, Link, Ratey hold event
Councilor at-large candidates Marianne Walles and Jon Link and Ward 3 School Committee candidate Jessie Ratey attend a candidate meet-and-greet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at 24 Pleasant Ave., Prospect Hill. Pizza will be available and donations are optional, says an Instagram post about the event.
Burnley’s senior concert lunch
Councilor at-large and mayoral candidate Willie Burnley Jr. holds a senior luncheon at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the George Dilboy VFW Post 529, 371 Summer St., Davis Square. The event features a Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash tribute concert by Niki Luparelli and Andy Cummings.
Three endorse Walles
Ward 2 councilor JT Scott, Ward 4 School Committee member Andre Green and state representative Mike Connolly endorse Walles, the council candidate posted on Instagram.
Connolly represents the 26th Middlesex district, which covers eastern sections of Somerville and Cambridge. Connolly’s district borders those represented by Erika Uyterhoeven and Christine Barber, who have also endorsed Walles.
Walles also posted that she is endorsed by 13 unions: the Somerville Firefighters Local 76, Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Local 3, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445, Sheet Metal Workers Local 17, Carpenters Local 328, Service Employees International Union Local 509, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 35, United Auto Workers, Teamsters Local 122, Greater Boston Labor Council, Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Local 6, Iron Workers Local 7 and American Postal Workers Local 100.
Former mayors, unions for Wilson
Former mayors Dorothy Kelly Gay, Michael Capuano and Gene Brune endorse Jake Wilson in his run for mayor, Wilson posted on Instagram. Brune served as mayor from 1980 to 1990, Capuano in 1990-1999 and Gay from 1999 to 2004. Capuano also served in the state’s House of Representatives from 1999 to 2019.
The Greater Boston Labor Council and the local 328 chapter of the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters also endorse Wilson, he posted.
Clingan, unions endorse Simione
Ward 4 councilor Jesse Clingan endorse Holly Simione in her run for councilor at large, Simione posted Monday. Teamsters Local 122 and the Somerville Firefighters Local 76 also endorse Simione.
Ewen-Campen endorses Link
Ward 3 councilor Ben Ewen-Campen endorsed Link in text Link posted on Instagram: “Jon will be a great city councilor – I’ve been so impressed by his genuine commitment to helping the Somerville community. He’s just a really good person, humble and smart and hard working, and it shines through. I’m very pleased to endorse him.”
O’Keefe, Pirie endorse Mbah
Former Ward 5 alderman Courtney O’Keefe endorses councilor at-large Will Mbah in his reelection run, Mbah posted. O’Keefe served as alderman from May 2013 to January 2014 after being appointed to complete the rest of Sean O’Donovan’s term following his retirement. (The position was renamed in 2019 to councilor when Somerville’s Board of Aldermen became the City Council.)
Community organizer Alex Pirie also endorsed Mbah. A LinkedIn profile for Pirie shows that he works as coordinator at the Immigrant Service Providers Group/Health, a coalition focused on immigration and health care, and sits on the steering committee at the Tisch College Community Research Center at Tufts. Pirie made his endorsement independently.
This post was updated Oct. 6, 2025, to remove an endorsement.
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