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Somerville Community Blood Drive
Sponsored by the Somerville City Hall &the Somerville High School Health Career Students Monday, May 14, 2012 9:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. Somerville High School Field House 81 Highland Avenue For appointments, please call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org or sign-up in the Health Careers Program Classroom.TRAFFIC & PARKING DEPT TO PILOT BACK-IN ANGLED PARKING IN UNION SQUARE
SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Acting Transportation and Parking Director Matthew Dias announced today that the City will be seeking to install back-in, angled parking along Bow Street in Union Square. The Bow Street installation, which would begin in May, will add 22 new spaces and increase the street's metered parking by 90 percent. At the same time, the change will greatly improve safety and visibility for drivers as well as for pedestrians and bicyclists. "Like so many of the…CITY BEGINS RESIDENTIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM
SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development, and the Office of Sustainability and Environment have announced a new program for residents designed to reduce energy use - and therefore costs - while encouraging best practices for a sustainable approach to urban living. Funded by a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Somerville Energy Challenge has been developed with support from Serrafix, a strategic consulting group…Additional Street Sweeping Day Added for Residents on 4th Thursday Routes (Thanksgiving)
Additional Street Sweeping Day Added for Residents on Fourth Thursday Routes (Thanksgiving Day) Attention Somerville residents who have your streets swept on the second and fourth Thursdays! Beginning in November 2015, streets on the fourth Thursday route will be swept on the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving. Please park according to normal street sweeping requirements for your street on Monday. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and unpredictable weather late in the season,…Sign Up for Bulb Blitz 2015!
Join the City of Somerville for the fifth annual Somerville Bulb Blitz on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 10 a.m. to noon, and help prepare your neighborhood for a bright and colorful spring 2016! Residents are invited to join City staff to plant bulbs that will bloom in Spring 2016. Since the Bulb Blitz began in 2011, residents have planted more than 12,300 bulbs citywide! Participants should bring their own tools (bulb planters, shovels, hoes, gloves, etc.). To sign up, visit http://tinyurl.com/…Please Note: Staff Email Moving to '@SomervilleMA.gov'
The City is in the process of updating its internal email server, and the older '@ci.somerville.ma.us' is being removed to save on redundant maintenance costs. If you have stored any City staff email addresses in your address book ending in '@ci.somerville.ma.us,' please take a moment to change them to end in '@somervillema.gov.' If you have any trouble reaching a staff member by email, you may call the City by telephone at 617-625-6600 for a directory, or look them up online.Tour Historic Milk Row Cemetery on Thu. 7/9 and Sun. 7/19
Ever pass by the old cemetery on Somerville Avenue next to the Market Basket parking lot and wonder, "Who is buried there? What's the story behind this place?" Milk Row Cemetery dates back to 1804 and due to its fragile condition it's often closed to the public, but it will be open twice in July for its regular seasonal openings. Visit the cemetery on Thursday, July 9 from 6-8 p.m. or Sunday, July 19, from 1-4 p.m. when volunteer docents-often dressed in historic period clothing-will help you…Feedback
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