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FIRE DEPT. REMINDS RESIDENTS OF IMPORTANT FIRE SAFETY AND PREVENTION TIPS

Fire Engineer urges residents to protect homes against summer fires with easy precautions.

SOMERVILLE - Chief Fire Engineer Kevin Kelleher and the
Somerville Fire Department remind all residents that with higher temperatures
and dry weather comes the increased risk for fire hazards, and ask residents to
take necessary preventive steps in your home to decrease this risk.

The following is a list of steps to consider in your home:

Neighborhood Street Reconstruction Program

CITY EXPANDS ELECTRONICS RECYCLING PROGRAM

Electronics Recycling Program now offered daily; Unwanted electronics should be brought to DPW yard for disposal.

SOMERVILLE - Beginning this week, the City will expand its electronics
recycling program by offering a recycling service on weekdays for unwanted
household electronics at no cost to residents.

In addition to accepting TVs and computer monitors, the City's
Department of Public Works now accepts desktop computers, laptops, servers and
server racks, networking equipment, electronic instrumentation, printers,
copiers and scanners, telephones, projectors, keyboards, battery backups,

CANCELED 8/13: Sunsetters Show

Due to inclement weather, The Sunsetters youth performance troupe concert on the City Hall Concourse is canceled. Please join us at one of the many upcoming free family-friendly Sunsetter’s shows. For the full schedule, please visit: http://www.somervillema.gov/alerts/2013-sunsetters-schedule.

“GOING GREEN ON RT. 16 @ SOMERSTREETS” SET FOR AUGUST 18th

August’s installment of Open Streets series to feature local “green” initiatives and businesses, live entertainment, activities, food and more

SOMERVILLE - For the third installment of the 2013 SomerStreets series, the City of Somerville presents "Going Green on Rt. 16" scheduled for Sunday, August 18th from noon - 4:00 p.m. along Route 16 (Alewife Brook Parkway), from Broadway to Dilboy Stadium. For this unique street fair, where "roads are closed to cars and open to you," programming includes: Curious Creatures exhibit; live entertainment; craft fair; green initiative businesses; mini golf course; free swim at Dilboy Pool, and much more. 

CITY’S ACCESSIBILITY SELF-EVALUATION AVAILABLE FOR RESIDENT REVIEW

Public meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 28 to gather community feedback

SOMERVILLE - A report detailing an exhaustive six-month evaluation of the City's accessibility is now available HERE.

MAYOR TO CUT RIBBON AT TINY ‘MICRO MUSEUM’ GRAND OPENING THURSDAY

At 7:30 p.m. tonight, Mayor Curtatone will hoist a pair of mini scissors to cut the tiny ribbon at the grand opening of Mµseum, a micro art museum in

Union Square Somerville

that just may be the world’s smallest museum. 

 

NORTH STREET VETERANS PLAYGROUND RENOVATIONS BREAK GROUND THIS WEEK

Expanded playground will have multi-sport course, play areas for different age groups, increased lighting and security

SOMERVILLE - The long-awaited
renovation of North
Street Veterans Playground

will begin this coming week with the park's new landscape design transforming
it into an inviting and inspiring green space that can be enjoyed by
children-and adults-of all ages.

 

FIRE INVESTIGATION UPDATE

Of nine fires, three now ruled as intentional, three as accidental, three remain under investigation

MAYOR TO ACCEPT POWDER HOUSE SCHOOL REDEVELOPMENT RECOMMENDATIONS

Tufts University selected by Technical Advisory Committee as first choice for site use

SOMERVILLE -
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone
announced today that the Powderhouse Community School Technical Advisory
Committee has submitted its final recommendations for redevelopment of the
former K-8 public school site. The Committee recommended three of six proposals
for consideration by the Mayor, with a proposal by Tufts University receiving
the top recommendation of 80 percent group favorability. The Mayor plans to
accept this recommendation.

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