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Symphony Park Meeting #3 March 19
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Ward 1 Alderman Matthew McLaughlin invite you to the third public meeting for the design of Symphony Park, located on the corner of Pearl and Florence Streets in East Somerville. Based on community input, the park is being designed as a neighborhood pocket park containing amenities for all age groups and abilities. The meeting will take place in the Community Room at Bryant Manor (75 Myrtle Street) at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19. For more information…SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EXPERT NAMED TO UNION SQUARE CIVIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SOMERVILLE - A final member of the Union Square Civic Advisory Committee with 20 years of experience in sustainable planning has been named at the request of the committee's chairman Wig Zamore, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced today. Somerville resident Professor Anne Tate brings to the committee an accomplished background in the areas that the committee will tackle over the next two years, including economic development, land use, housing diversity, transportation, open…RESIDENTS INVITED TO DISCUSS IDEAS FOR NEW ‘SYMPHONY PARK’ AT DEC. 19 MEETING
SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Ward 1 Alderman Maureen Bastardi invite all interested community members to the second in a series of discussions to determine design plans for the new Symphony Park, to be constructed on the vacant lot a the intersection of Pearl and Pinckney Streets in 2014. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Community Room at Bryant Manor, 75 Myrtle St. An initial community meeting was held in July 2013 to discuss the vision for the…CELEBRATE WALKING, BIKING AND TRANSIT-RIDING WITH CITY, BIKE COMMITTEE NOV. 22
SOMERVILLE - Join Mayor Joseph Curtatone, the Somerville Board of Aldermen and School Committee, Somerville Bicycle Committee City, Shape Up Somerville, and many others to celebrate walking, biking, and transit-riding into the fall, as well as two important milestones for Somerville. On Friday, Nov. 22 from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. at the East Somerville Community School (Cross Street side), all residents and commuters are invited to join us for hot coffee or hot cider, and students who take…SOMERVILLE NAMED A SILVER BICYCLE FRIENDLY CITY
SOMERVILLE – If you’re on a bicycle in Somerville, you can get there from here. The League of American Bicyclists has recognized the City’s continued commitment to creating a bikeable community with a Silver Bicycle Friendly Community designation—only two years after the city earned a Bronze level designation. Somerville now joins a number of cities including New York City, Philadelphia and Boston receiving this level of recognition for its efforts to promote bicycling. The City of Somerville…DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE APPLICATIONS
SOMERVILLE - Time is running out for members of the Somerville community to help shape the future of the city's open space, affordable housing and historic preservation. The City of Somerville has extended the application deadline to Friday, Sept. 27 for the four public positions on the newly formed Community Preservation Committee, which is tasked with evaluating Somerville's needs in open space and outdoor recreation, affordable housing, and historic preservation, and making…Labor Day Holiday Schedule
All City and School Offices will be closed for the Labor Day holiday. Trash, Recycling and Yard Waste pickup will be on a holiday schedule all week. Please place refuse out one day after your normal pickup day. Street sweeping will be suspended Monday, September 2. Parking meter enforcement will not be in effect Monday, September 2. For more information, please call 311.‘SEIZE THE SUMMER’ AT SOMERSTREETS ON HIGHLAND AVE, 7/28
SOMERVILLE - Celebrate summer with the City of Somerville at "Seize the Summer," the July installment of the City's seasonal SomerStreets festival, on Sunday, July 28th from noon to 4pm between Walnut and Cedar Streets on Highland Ave. Seize the Summer is the second of the 2013 SomerStreets celebrations, with the first event having drawn more than 3,000 attendees in June along East Broadway. For this unique street fair, where "roads are closed to cars and open to you," programming includes: a…GLX CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON MEDFORD STREET BRIDGE
SOMERVILLE - As preparations continue throughout the City of Somerville in anticipation of the Green Line Extension Project, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will begin intensive repairs to the Medford Street Bridge in July that will require the full closure of Medford Street between Somerville Ave. and South Street through July 21st. Beginning on Friday, July 5th, this portion of roadway will be closed to vehicles 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the next three…SOMERVILLE SETS NEW DATA-DRIVEN COURSE FOR STREET MANAGEMENT; CITY TO INCREASE ROAD AND SIDEWALK BUDGET TO $3 MILLION AND ADDITIONAL ADA FUNDS TO $1 MILLION
SOMERVILLE – Starting immediately, hard data and an innovative new statistical model designed to prioritize community needs and values such as ADA accessibility, transit access, and development of the City’s tree canopy, will guide the paving and sidewalk repair plans of the City of Somerville. Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced today that the new Neighborhood Street Reconstruction Program, which also takes advantage of significant cost savings offered by a shift to more preventive maintenance…Feedback
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