SOMERVILLE NAMED A SILVER BICYCLE FRIENDLY CITY
Honor comes only two years after city named a Bronze level community, demonstrating City of Somerville’s continued progress
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.
SOMERVILLE ARTISTS TRANSFORM PHONE BOXES INTO ART
City of Somerville, Somerville Arts Council, and the NAVE Gallery announce a roving art opening for The Phone Art Box Project, Sunday, Oct. 27
SOMERVILLE – As cell phone use increases, phone
booths have lost their purpose, but many still remain forgotten on urban
streets. So what's a City to do with abandoned phone boxes on sidewalks and
building walls? The City of Somerville’s answer is: Turn them into public art—then
hold a roving citywide art opening to celebrate the creative works made for The
Phone Art Box Project.
ICE RINK DEDICATION CEREMONY TO HONOR THE 5 VETERANS WHO FOUNDED SOMERVILLE YOUTH HOCKEY
Special emcee and guests at event on Saturday, Oct. 26; Legendary BU Ice Hockey Coach Jack Parker to speak at ceremony
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– Five Somerville veterans who founded Somerville Youth Hockey and exemplify
service to country and community will be honored when the new ice rink at 570
Somerville Ave., next to the Veterans Memorial Rink, is officially dedicated as
the Founders Rink at a special event on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m.
Public Hearing on Appointments to the BOA
The Legislative
Matters Committee of the Board of Alderman will hold a public hearing on the
proposal that the Board of Alderman approve a Home Rule Petition to amend Section 7 of Title 2 of
Division 1 of the City Charter regarding filling vacancies on the Board.
FEMINO NAMED INTERIM ACTING CHIEF OF POLICE
Captain Charles Femino current Chief of Detectives, with department since 1984
- Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced today that Somerville Police Captain
Charles Femino has agreed to serve as the Interim Acting Chief of Police
beginning on Dec. 1, 2013, until a permanent replacement is found for departing
Chief Thomas Pasquarello.
SOMERVILLE ONE OF FOUR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE INDUCTED TO NACTO FOR EXCELLENCE IN TRANSPORTATION ISSUES
Somerville joins prestigious group, now comprised of 18 member cities and 12 affiliate members nationwide. Somerville recognized for excellence in sustainable transportation, street design and transportation policy.
- The National Association of City
Transportation Officials (NACTO) added the City of Somerville, MA to its
affiliate member list last week, including Somerville in its prestigious list
of just 18 member cities and 12 affiliate members nationwide that includes
Boston, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia,
Seattle, and Washington, D.C., among others. In a press release, NACTO
officials lauded Somerville for its "[commitment] to sustainable transportation
CITY RECEIVES LOW BORROWING RATE AFTER HIGH CREDIT RATING
The City of Somerville received a 3.29 rate on its $13 million Municipal Purposes loan after Moody’s assigns City’s highest ever credit rating to borrowing
- Reaping the benefits of the City's highest ever credit rating in the City's
history, the City of Somerville will now receive a low interest rate on its previously approved short-term 20-year Municipal
Purposes loan. After Moody's Investors Service reaffirmed the City's Aa2 long-term
rating earlier this year, the credit rating agency recently also assigned the
City's more than $13 million in short-term borrowing the same high credit
rating.
FOUR COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE APPOINTEES SUBMITTED TO ALDERMEN
City of Somerville holds unprecedented open and transparent process select four public members for the committee that guides Community Preservation Act
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- An unprecedented open and transparent process has yielded four appointees for
the public positions on the newly formed Community
Preservation Committee, and Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone has submitted all
four appointments to the Board of Aldermen for final approval.
NEXT DAVIS SQ. BY DESIGN MEETING SCHEDULED FOR NOV. 13 AT ARMORY ON HIGHLAND AVE.
- The next phase of the City's Somerville
by Design community planning process in Davis Square will take place Wednesday,
Nov. 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Center for Arts at the Armory, 191
Highland Ave. The meeting will be structured as an open house-style plan
presentation to allow participants to get an in-depth understanding and
discussion of the topics they care most about. The open house structure is
PACKARD AVE., POWDER HOUSE BLVD. INTERSECTION TO EXPERIENCE TEMP. CLOSURES NOV. 12 & 13
- In cooperation with the City of Somerville, Tufts University is
conducting work at the intersection of Packard Avenue and Powder House
Boulevard to improve pedestrian safety infrastructure. The project, which
entails the expansion of the sidewalks at each of the four corners of the
intersection, will necessitate the temporary closure of the intersection on
Tuesday, Nov. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 13, from 9:30 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. Detours will be in place during these hours, as follows:
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