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UNION SQ. POST OFFICE SOLD TO ARTS PROMOTER
Union Square Post Office Sold by Postal Service to Investment Group Representing Arts and Entertainment Promoter Don Law Buyer considering hybrid arts venue and café/restaurant space; Access to New Deal-era mural to be preserved SOMERVILLE - The City of Somerville has been informed that the U.S. Postal Service has completed the sale of the former Union Square Post Office at 237 Washington St. to Union Square Partners LLC, a Cambridge-based investor group associated with arts and entertainment…Central Broadway Streetscape Improvements Discussion
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 4 Alderman Tony Lafuente, and the Mayor's Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD) invite all interested community members to the second in a series of meetings to discuss the Central Broadway Streetscape Improvements Project. On Wednesday, Sept. 10, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., attendees will hear the results of the recent traffic analysis, and about preliminary concepts for the project. The meeting will be held at the Healey School cafeteria, 5…Haitian & Brazilian Festival: Sunday 8/24
Redirecting...(click here if not redirected)MUSLIM JOURNEYS CONTINUES AT LIBRARY ON 7/31
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
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
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
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 FIRE DEPT. FULLY EQUIPPED WITH NARCAN
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…Storm Water Runoff Notice
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…Feedback
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