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CITY ANNOUNCES ATHLETIC FIELDS ASSESSMENT SURVEY

SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development announce the Somerville Athletic Fields Needs Assessment Survey, asking community members to give feedback on the City's athletic fields to help inform future use.    "Playfields are a center for neighborhood activity, like going to soccer games or just relaxing with friends," said Arn Franzen, Director of Parks and Open Spaces. "This is a chance for you, the people who use the field, to give…

SOMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNOUNCES DIGITIZATION OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

SOMERVILLE - The City of Somerville and the Somerville Public Library (SPL) are proud to announce the digitization of historical records from the files of the City's past. Thanks to a partnership with the Boston Public Library and Digital Commonwealth, a State repository service for historical documents, the official full-text Annual Reports of the City from 1843 to 1925 can be accessed free through the Internet Archive. This archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural…

MAYOR OUTLINES NEXT STEPS ON ADOPTION OF COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT

SOMERVILLE – Ten days after Somerville voters overwhelmingly approved local ballot Question 4, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone today announced the City’s next steps in creating the local mechanisms to implement the Community Preservation Act (CPA).  As directed by the enabling state legislation, the Curtatone Administration will propose a local ordinance establishing a nine-member Community Preservation Committee to begin the process of developing recommendations to allocate additional revenues that…

SOMERVILLE, NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE TO HOST PUBLIC FORUM THIS FRIDAY

SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Congressman Michael Capuano, and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare will host a public forum on Friday, September 28th at 11:00 A.M. to discuss current proposals to address long-term funding and benefits issues affecting these long-standing and popular federal programs.  The forum will be held at Tufts University's Cohen Auditorium (in the Aidekman Arts Center, Talbot Ave., Somerville), and will offer a panel discussion…

IKEA TELLS CITY IT WILL LET ASSEMBLY SQUARE PERMITS EXPIRE

SOMERVILLE –Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced today that he had received a letter from officials at international furniture retailer IKEA informing him that they have decided not to proceed with construction at Assembly Square .  Mayor Curtatone indicated that IKEA would have little difficulty finding a buyer for their 12-acre site, which is adjacent to the MBTA’s Assembly Square Orange Line station and Federal Realty’s 45 -acre Assembly Row development, both of which are already under…

SOMERVILLE BECOMES FIRST COMMUNITY IN NEW ENGLAND TO HOST DATA ON CLOUD-BASED SOCRATA PORTAL

SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone today announced that the City of Somerville has partnered with Socrata, Inc to use the Seattle-based company's hosted OpenData service to provide direct public access to large amounts of municipal data covering a variety of departments.   With the cloud-based service, the City of Somerville will be able to share data collected through its 311 constituent service system directly with the general public in an interactive format.  When the new data portal…

YSAG Hosts Discussion, Q&A with Mayor Curtatone 5/16

The Mayor's Young Somerville Advisory Group (YSAG) invites all interested Somerville residents to attend a discussion with Mayor Curtatone during their monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 16th.  The meeting will be held at The Burren (back room) in Davis Square, beginning at 6:00 p.m.  YSAG is comprised of Somerville residents representing individuals in the 21-35 age range, which comprises approximately 42% of the City's population.  In 2007, the Mayor convened YSAG to advise the City about…

3RD ANNUAL MAYOR’S FITNESS CHALLENGE KICKS OFF MARCH 31ST

SOMERVILLE - The City's 3rd annual "Mayor's Fitness Challenge" will kick off with an event on Saturday, March 31st at the Somerville High School field house, 81 Highland Ave.  The Fitness Challenge encourages community members to pledge to embody the Shape Up Somerville motto, "Eat Smart, Play Hard, Move More," by making smarter food choices and increasing daily physical activity.  Individuals may participate in one of two ways:  1) by forming or joining teams of up to 10 people.  At the end…

Morse-Kelley Playground Mural Community Meeting 1/17

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Ward 3 Alderman Tom Taylor invite all interested residents to a community meeting to discuss a planned mural for Morse-Kelley Playground, which is currently under construction.  The meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 17th at the Dormition of the Virgin Mary ("Greek Church") Hall, located at 29 Central Street, and will begin at 7:00 p.m.  Local Artist Joe Barillaro will present examples of his work and solicit your ideas and inspiration for the mural…

Detours Thurs. 11/26 for Road Race Starting at 9 a.m. (Davis, Broadway, Medford St., Summer St.)

Beginning at 9 a.m. on Thurs., Nov. 26, roads in the Davis Sq., Broadway, Medford St. and Summer St. areas may experience temporary traffic delays as runners pass by. The race route begins on Holland St., right onto Broadway, right on North St., right on Powderhouse Blvd., onto Broadway through Ball and Magoun Squares, right on Medford St., right on Central St., and right on Summer St., ending at Grove St. in Davis Sq. Please note that eastbound traffic on Holland St. will be detoured at…

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