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Powder House Blvd. Community Meeting, Tuesday, March 5
Mayor Joseph Curtatone, Ward 7 City Councilor Katjana Ballantyne, Somerville Police Chief David Fallon, and City staff invite you to a Powder House Blvd. Community meeting on Tuesday, March 5. The meeting will include an update on the investigation into the February 8 fatal hit and run at Powder House Blvd. and Hardan Rd., as well as information about traffic calming measures on Powder House Blvd. Discussion will include information on the interim measures already in place, upcoming measures…City Seeking Participants for 2019 Energy Efficiency Program
Somerville residents and the City both stand to benefit if 230 Somerville households sign up for a no-cost Mass Save® Home Energy Assessment in 2019. The Mass Save Program can help Somerville property owners and tenants save on energy and maintenance costs, increase the home’s comfort and value, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, if 230 households complete no-cost Home Energy Assessments and a cumulative 300 energy upgrades, the City can receive up to $8,700 in grants from the…6-Month Somerville Ave. Detour (Between Dane St. and the Somerville Ave./Washington St. Intersection) Begins Tuesday, February 19
As part of the next phase of the Somerville Ave. Utility & Streetscape Improvements Project, City contractors will set up a large work zone in Union Square on or around February 19. It will remain in place for approximately six months. For the duration of this six-month period, eastbound through traffic on Somerville Ave. will be detoured onto Dane St. and Washington St., although vehicles will still be able to proceed up to the Warren Ave. intersection to access residences,…Somerville Files Lawsuit Against 19 Opioid Companies
Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced that the City filed suit today against opioid manufacturers and distributors, including the chain pharmacy Walgreens as a distributor, for their alleged deceptive and illegal promotion of opioids and failure to investigate, report, maintain effective control, and take steps to terminate suspicious orders of the highly addictive prescription drugs. "The bad actors within the opioid industry must be held to account. For Somerville, that starts today…CANCELED: Planning Board Hearing Portion of 1/29 Board of Aldermen Land Use Committee Meeting
Learn more at https://www.somervillema.gov/events/2019/01/29/canceled-planning-board-a...Winter Hill in Motion Streetscape Improvements Community Meeting, February 4
Learn about proposed improvements to Broadway in the Winter Hill neighborhood and share your feedback at a community meeting on Monday, February 4, at 6:30 p.m., in the Healey School cafeteria, 5 Meacham Street. Proposed work includes creating a dedicated bus lane on a portion of Broadway, as well as bike lanes, additional crosswalks, and looking at traffic signal timing. Individuals with disabilities who need auxiliary aids and services for effective communication, written…Suspect Sought by Somerville PD in Relation to Fraudulent Use of Credit Card, Burglary
Somerville Police Department detectives are working to identify the pictured individual in relation to the fraudulent use of a credit card that was stolen in a house burglary. Anyone who recognizes the individual from the attached surveillance photos is asked to contact Detective Thermidor at (617) 625-1600 x 7231.Lloyd Schwartz Named Somerville’s Third Poet Laureate
The City of Somerville announced this week its third Poet Laureate, Lloyd Schwartz. Schwartz is a Somerville resident with an impressive literary background including his current work as the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His poetry collections include These People; Goodnight, Gracie; Cairo Traffic; and most recently, Little Kisses (University of Chicago Press). His poems have been published in, among many other journals, The New Yorker, Poetry…Community Preservation Committee Seeks Input on West Somerville Dog Park Feasibility Study
The Somerville Community Preservation Committee (CPC) invites residents to join a conservation about options for a dog park in West Somerville at their Wednesday, January 23 meeting. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Visiting Nurse Association 3rd floor community room (259 Lowell St), and seeks to receive community feedback if and where there is space for a dog park in West Somerville, and how dog parks can be effectively managed in a densely populated urban community. At…Somerville Cares About Prevention to Present Student Health Survey Results January 31
The Somerville Office of Prevention and the Somerville Health & Human Services Department invite you to join in a World Café style presentation of the 2018 Somerville High School Student Health Survey results on Thursday, January 31, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Somerville High School Culinary Arts Bistro (use atrium entrance). The results will be presented in the form of an interactive game, facilitated by youth from Somerville Positive Forces 100 (SPF100), followed by a “World Café…Feedback
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