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SOMERVILLE SLATED FOR $18 MILLION GRANT FROM BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS
SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Director of Libraries, Maria Carpenter, announced today that the City of Somerville has been approved by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) to be placed on a waiting list for an $18 million construction grant to partially fund a new public library in the heart of Union Square. Fourteen other communities were listed, but Somerville received the highest grant award in the state and placed first in the second round of review.…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…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.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…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…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…Feedback
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