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Family Fun! "Haunted (City) Hall" 10/30
“Haunted Hall” to Feature Family-Friendly Halloween Fun at City Hall on Oct. 30 Join the City of Somerville on Thursday, Oct. 30 for the first annual “Haunted Hall” event at City Hall and the City Hall concourse from 6 to 8 p.m. The family-friendly event will feature a costumed Halloween Stroll, safe Trick-or-Treating inside City Hall, games and activities, refreshments, a Haunted Walkway tour, and more. Young attendees are invited to participate in the annual “Halloween Stroll,” relocated…Important Polling Place Changes
ATTENTION REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE FOLLOWING WARDS; YOUR POLLING PLACE HAS CHANGED BEGINNING WITH THE NOVEMBER 4, 2014 STATE ELECTION: Ward One, Precinct Two: your polling place has changed From: The East Somerville Branch Library, 115 Broadway To: The East Somerville Community School, Glen Street Entrance Ward One, Precinct Three: your polling place has changed From: A Room in the Reilly-Brickley Fire Station, 266 Broadway To: The East Somerville…FOOD FOR GUNS: RESIDENT GUN BUYBACK 8/16
FOOD FOR GUNS: SOMERVILLE RESIDENT GUN BUYBACK EVENT AUGUST 16 Trade in firearms and rifles, license or unlicensed— for grocery store gift certificates What: Somerville Gun Buyback Where: Somerville Police Headquarters, 220 Washington Street When: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. SOMERVILLE—The City of Somerville Police Department, in conjunction with the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Department, will hold a gun and ammunition buyback event on August 16, 2014,…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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