Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and the Somerville Office of Health and Human Services are inviting all community members to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month at the annual Pride Flag Raising Ceremony on Thursday, June 5, 2025, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on the City Hall Concourse (93 Highland Ave.).

The event will feature remarks from Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, City LGBTQ+ Services Coordinator Izzy Starr, and youth representatives from Somerville’s LGBTQ+ community. Live ASL interpretation will be available.

With spring in full swing, the City of Somerville is reminding residents that the season of growth is also the season of pollinators.  As you shop for plants to fill garden pots or garden beds, you can play a role in feeding and sheltering the insects that keep our global ecosystem functioning.

On Monday, May 12, at approximately 8:50 p.m., the Somerville Fire Department and Somerville Police Department responded to a reported fire at the former for the Winter Hill Community Innovation School (WHCIS) on Sycamore Street. The building is currently unused.

Upon arrival, firefighters encountered heavy smoke throughout the building and located three separate fires inside the school. The fires were quickly extinguished. No injuries have been reported. The extent of the damage to the building remains under assessment.

Massachusetts is urging property owners to switch from gas to electric to help meet the state’s climate goals. But according to a new report from the City of Somerville’s Office of Sustainability and Environment, there’s a critical missing piece that few are aware of: few existing programs to help cover the high cost of transformers not considered to be benefiting the grid by the utilities. Owners of multi-family buildings are often shocked to find the electric grid can’t handle their upgrades unless they themselves pay to install costly transformers. The result?