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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…SOMERVILLE UNITES WITH AREA CITIES TO ADDRESS OPIOID ADDICTION
SOMERVILLE – Strategies to expand efforts to prevent heroin and opioid use and overdoses, including the use of the opioid overdose antidote nasal NARCAN, are now being developed by a four-city Massachusetts Opioid Addiction and Prevention Collaborative (MOAPC) that includes Somerville, Cambridge, Everett and Watertown. Funded by a $100,000 Massachusetts Department of Public Health MOAPC grant awarded in July 2013, the Collaborative conducted an in-depth needs assessment and presented its…2014 Property Assessment Info Sessions 1/23 & 1/27
Due to predictions of heavy snow, tonight's meeting has been rescheduled to Thursday, January 23. The meeting will still be held in the West Somerville Neighborhood School at 6:30 p.m. 2014 Property Assessment Info Sessions: Informational Sessions on 2014 Property Assessments and the Appeals Process for Commercial and Residential Properties The City of Somerville and the Somerville Chamber of Commerce invite both commercial and residential property owners to two info sessions on 2014…CITY AWARDED THREE MEDALS FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ADDRESSING CHILDHOOD OBESITY THROUGH LET’S MOVE! CITIES, TOWNS AND COUNTIES
SOMERVILLE - The National League of Cities (NLC) has recognized Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and the City's Shape Up Somerville strategy for recent completion of key health and wellness goals for Let's Move! Cities, Towns and Counties (LMCTC). LMCTC is a major component of First Lady Michelle Obama's comprehensive Let's Move! initiative, which is dedicated to solving the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. "Local elected officials play a critical…CELEBRATE WALKING, BIKING AND TRANSIT-RIDING WITH CITY, BIKE COMMITTEE NOV. 22
SOMERVILLE - Join Mayor Joseph Curtatone, the Somerville Board of Aldermen and School Committee, Somerville Bicycle Committee City, Shape Up Somerville, and many others to celebrate walking, biking, and transit-riding into the fall, as well as two important milestones for Somerville. On Friday, Nov. 22 from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. at the East Somerville Community School (Cross Street side), all residents and commuters are invited to join us for hot coffee or hot cider, and students who take…SOMERVILLE NAMED A SILVER BICYCLE FRIENDLY CITY
SOMERVILLE – If you’re on a bicycle in Somerville, you can get there from here. The League of American Bicyclists has recognized the City’s continued commitment to creating a bikeable community with a Silver Bicycle Friendly Community designation—only two years after the city earned a Bronze level designation. Somerville now joins a number of cities including New York City, Philadelphia and Boston receiving this level of recognition for its efforts to promote bicycling. The City of Somerville…DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE APPLICATIONS
SOMERVILLE - Time is running out for members of the Somerville community to help shape the future of the city's open space, affordable housing and historic preservation. The City of Somerville has extended the application deadline to Friday, Sept. 27 for the four public positions on the newly formed Community Preservation Committee, which is tasked with evaluating Somerville's needs in open space and outdoor recreation, affordable housing, and historic preservation, and making…Labor Day Holiday Schedule
All City and School Offices will be closed for the Labor Day holiday. Trash, Recycling and Yard Waste pickup will be on a holiday schedule all week. Please place refuse out one day after your normal pickup day. Street sweeping will be suspended Monday, September 2. Parking meter enforcement will not be in effect Monday, September 2. For more information, please call 311.‘SEIZE THE SUMMER’ AT SOMERSTREETS ON HIGHLAND AVE, 7/28
SOMERVILLE - Celebrate summer with the City of Somerville at "Seize the Summer," the July installment of the City's seasonal SomerStreets festival, on Sunday, July 28th from noon to 4pm between Walnut and Cedar Streets on Highland Ave. Seize the Summer is the second of the 2013 SomerStreets celebrations, with the first event having drawn more than 3,000 attendees in June along East Broadway. For this unique street fair, where "roads are closed to cars and open to you," programming includes: a…GLX CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON MEDFORD STREET BRIDGE
SOMERVILLE - As preparations continue throughout the City of Somerville in anticipation of the Green Line Extension Project, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will begin intensive repairs to the Medford Street Bridge in July that will require the full closure of Medford Street between Somerville Ave. and South Street through July 21st. Beginning on Friday, July 5th, this portion of roadway will be closed to vehicles 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the next three…Feedback
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