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Winter Hill Community Planning Starts 9/29
Somerville by Design: Winter Hill community planning series starts Sept. 29 The fall and winter schedule for the "Somerville by Design" neighborhood planning effort kicks off in Winter Hill on Monday, Sept. 29. Over the next four months, residents, business owners, community organizations and commercial property owners will have the opportunity to roll up their sleeves along with City officials to prepare a plan that guides public and private investment in the Winter Hill neighborhood, from…Historic Pres. Union Sq. Walking Tour 9/21
Please join the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission (SHPC) for a Union Square Walking Tour, "Union Square: An Intermixing of Industry, Immigration and Innovation," on Sunday, September 21 2 to 4:30 p.m. The tour is free, and will step off from Somerville High School, 91 Highland Ave. It will include interior tours of the historic St. Anthony's Church and the new Greentown Labs, and will end with a reception at Machu Picchu Restaurant. This event is sponsored by SHPC and ArtsUnion. A…FALLON CHOSEN AS NEW POLICE CHIEF BY MAYOR
Appointment will go before Board of Aldermen for approval SOMERVILLE –David Fallon, current Somerville Police Deputy Chief of Operations, has accepted an offer from Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone to become the City’s new Chief of Police. Mayor Curtatone will formally request the confirmation of Fallon’s appointment at the next regular Board of Aldermen meeting on Thursday, Aug. 28. Born and raised in Somerville, Fallon joined the Somerville Police Department in 1998 as a patrolman. A graduate of…ArtBeat 2014 Road Closure Information
The City’s of Somerville's annual ArtBeat Festival will take place this Friday evening and Saturday in Davis Square. The festival will begin Friday evening, July 18, from 6 to 10 p.m. with live music in Seven Hills Park. All roads will remain open on Friday. On Saturday, July 19 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., craft vendors, live music on several stages, and local artists will set up throughout Davis Square. The events are free, though a small donation is suggested. For Saturday’s festival, several…SOMERVILLE POLICE DEPLOY NARCAN IN ALL PATROL CARS
SOMERVILLE POLICE DEPLOY NARCAN IN ALL PATROL CARS With order by Acting Chief of Police, Charles Femino, all Somerville emergency response teams now fully equipped with Nasal Narcan to combat heroin overdoses SOMERVILLE –All Somerville Police cruisers are now fully equipped as of June 19 with nasal Naloxone (Narcan), a prescription medication that can reverse an opioid overdose, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Acting Chief of Police Charles Femino announce. In March, Gov. Deval…CITY LAUNCHES URBAN AG "FOOD TRIANGLE"
FOOD PRODUCTION, DISTRUBUTION ‘TRIANGLE’ SET UP IN SOMERVILLE SOMERVILLE – On Monday, June 9, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) Commissioner Greg Watson will join Groundwork Somerville, the Somerville Public Schools. Shape Up Somerville and the Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Garden Institute to cut the ribbon on two exciting new urban agriculture initiatives in the City of Somerville, creating a “Food Production and…SOMERVILLE PASSES FIRST ‘COMPLETE STREETS’ ORDINANCE IN MASSACHUSETTS
SOMERVILLE PASSES FIRST ‘COMPLETE STREETS’ ORDINANCE IN MASSACHUSETTS Becomes first city in Massachusetts to pass a comprehensive Complete Streets ordinance (and sixth to enact related policies) to advance safer, healthier street improvements. Based on national and international best practices, ordinance will advance multi-modalism citywide. SOMERVILLE – Following a unanimous vote by the Somerville Board of Aldermen on May 8, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announces that the City of Somerville…Sketch of suspect in Beacon Street assault released
On Monday, April 21, 2014, during the early morning hours, a woman reported to the Somerville Police that she was the victim of an assault near the 300 block of Beacon Street. She had departed the Porter Square MBTA Station and was walking alone on Beacon Street when her attacker grabbed her from behind and made an attempt to force her into a nearby alley. The victim was able to scream and fend off her attacker. The victim described her attacker as a thin black male, in…Special Meeting on Powder School Site Wed. 3/26
Special Community Meeting on Powder House School Site Planning: Next Steps with Alternate Bidder Wed., March 26, 6:30 p.m. The City has ended negotiations with Tufts University on their proposed project for redeveloping the former Powder House School site due to Tuft’s inability to meet the project timeline. At this public meeting, which was originally scheduled to review the Tufts proposal, we will discuss this new development in the process along with next steps for…DIVE INTO DATA WITH SOMERVILLE’S NEW OPEN SOURCE WEBSITE
SOMERVILLE - Did you know that Somerville's birth rate surpassed Massachusetts' falling rate a few years back? Or that the city has had a lower unemployment rate than the state and the nation since 2000? You can delve into this data and more with the City of Somerville's new open source website, Key System Indicators at somervillema.gov/dashboard, which includes data on living, working, playing and raising a family in Somerville. That data includes everything from property values and city…Feedback
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