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SOMERVILLE - The next installment in the "Muslim Journeys" book series at the Somerville Public Library will take place on Thursday, July 31 with a discussion of Why the West Fears Islam and Acts of Faith at 6:30 p.m.Jocelyne Cesari, Director of Harvard University's Islam in the West program and lecturer in Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School, will lead a talk on these issues as explored in her book, Why the West Fears Islam, and Interfaith Youth Core Founder Ebo Patel's autobiographical…
CITY TO PLANT 575 TREES BY AUGUST 1
Somerville on track to plant 2,000 new public trees by end of 2015
SOMERVILLE -Over the next month, the City of Somerville will plant 575 new public trees-roughly the same amount planted over two years from 2010 to 2012-as it stays on schedule for its goal to plant 2,000 new trees by the end of 2015.After July's planting blitz, more than 1,000 new trees will have been planted since 2011, when the City launched its aggressive tree planting effort following a…
2014 ‘SUMMERTIME IN SOMERVILLE’ EVENTS LINEUP
Fourth of July Fireworks, Family Fun Day, SomerStreets, SomerMovies,
ArtBeat and more are coming back to the streets of Somerville beginning
in June!
SOMERVILLE - Summertime in Somerville is kicking back into high gear for
summer 2014, with the return of popular programming like SomerStreets,
Fourth of July Fireworks, Family Fun Day, Joe's Jazz and Blues Festival,
the weekly SomerMovie Fest, and ArtsUnion programming in Union Square
all summer…
CITY TO LIMIT PARTICIPATION IN SECURE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone to sign an executive order returning discretion on protecting community to local law enforcement officials
Click here to view the signed executive order (PDF)
SOMERVILLE
– Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced at a press conference this morning that
he will sign an executive order that will limit Somerville’s participation in
Secure Communities, a flawed federal program that has left…
SOMERVILLE – Mayor Joseph A.
Curtatone and Chief Fire Engineer Kevin Kelleher announced this week that all
Somerville Fire Department companies are equipped with nasal Naloxone (Narcan),
a prescription medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. In a joint
effort with the Cambridge Health Alliance, Cataldo Ambulance, and the
Somerville Board of Health and Trauma Response Network, Somerville Firefighters
completed training on administering the prescription to victims of drug
overdose. In…
CSO/Storm Water Runoff Water Quality Alert
In accordance with the conditions of the Department of
Environmental Protection's (DEP) Alewife Brook/Upper Mystic River Variance we are
hereby notifying you that a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) occurred at CAM401B
on March 30-31, 2014 and discharged into the Alewife Brook. The Variance
approved workplan requires the Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) to
notify local health agents, DEP, EPA and MRWA within 24 hours of when a CSO
event…
SOMERVILLE – Strategies to expand efforts to prevent heroin
and opioid use and overdoses, including the use of the opioid overdose antidote
nasal NARCAN, are now being developed by a four-city Massachusetts Opioid
Addiction and Prevention Collaborative (MOAPC) that includes Somerville,
Cambridge, Everett and Watertown. Funded by a $100,000 Massachusetts Department
of Public Health MOAPC grant awarded in July 2013, the Collaborative conducted
an in-depth needs assessment and presented its…
Due to predictions of heavy snow, tonight's meeting has been rescheduled to Thursday, January 23. The meeting will still be held in the West Somerville Neighborhood School at 6:30 p.m.
2014 Property Assessment
Info Sessions:
Informational Sessions on
2014 Property Assessments and the Appeals Process for Commercial and
Residential Properties
The City of Somerville and the Somerville Chamber of Commerce invite both commercial and residential property owners to two info sessions on
2014 property…
SOMERVILLE
- The National League of Cities (NLC) has recognized Somerville Mayor
Joseph A. Curtatone and the City's Shape Up Somerville strategy for recent
completion of key health and wellness goals for Let's Move! Cities, Towns and Counties (LMCTC). LMCTC is a major
component of First Lady Michelle Obama's comprehensive Let's Move!
initiative, which is dedicated to solving the childhood obesity epidemic within
a generation.
"Local elected officials play a critical…
SOMERVILLE - The City of Somerville is
seeking to fill vacancies on four essential Boards that are appointed by the
Mayor and coordinated by the Mayor's Office of Strategic Planning and Community
Development. The Mayor's office will be accepting applications for positions on
these boards through November 25, 2013.
Each of these opportunities will allow
for a Somerville resident to provide voluntary service to improve the city and
guide policies, programs and the design of the Somerville…