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Online resource next key step in Somerville’s vision to develop integrated citywide universal kindergarten readiness strategy
Continue reading Somerville Launches New Early Childhood Website →

By William Tauro

Late Wednesday afternoon, Somerville Police officers standby directing traffic at the scene of a moped accident on Medford Street at Broadway in Somerville while Pats Tow loads the damaged vehicle onto their flatbed.

The moped driver was transported to a local hospital for medical attention.

By William Tauro

Dpw crews working in the bitter cold to Install Christmas Pine trees into the ground late Wednesday afternoon.
Continue reading Decking The Halls at Somerville City Hall Concourse →

Join Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Director of Traffic and Parking Suzanne Rinfret, and Parkmobile on Monday, Nov. 24 to launch the latest parking technology in Somerville with Parkmobile’s smart phone app. The official launch ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Meacham Rd. in Davis Continue reading Community Note: Parkmobile App to Launch Mon., Nov. 24 →

You can watch it online here! The news segment headlines will follow shortly.

Attend the recent meeting about the Vinfen group home and another about Lowell Street speeding, find out how the city and restaurants are coping with the ban on expanded polystyrene containers, learn about a new food server job training program, find out how one Somerville agency is helping people sign up for health insurance and learn about some of the root causes that drive to risk their lives to flee Central America. These stories and more on Somerville Neighborhood News #27

By William Tauro

Off duty school buses belonging to a bus company on Joy Street in Somerville are allegedly being accused of abusing the city’s traffic parking ordinances and just literally parking when and where they want around the city in between their daily pickups and dropoffs and using the city streets as staging and waiting areas.

Continue reading Complaints of Off Duty School Buses Abusing Parking Ordinances in Somerville →

Union Square Tree

Powderhouse Rotary Tree

Photos by Frank Santangelo

By William Tauro

Somerville DPW crews working in the bitter cold early Wednesday morning to set up these three huge trees for this years holiday season in Somerville.

Somerville Holiday Christmas Trees Going Up in Union Square, Teele Square and Powderhouse Rotary.

Teele Square Tree

GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, November 19, the 323rd day of 2014 with 42 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:39 and sunset is @ 4:19. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, & Mercury. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus & Venus.

ON THIS DAY IN: 1493 – Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second voyage to the New World.
Continue reading GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS by John Dwyer →

By William Tauro

This year’s Edith Chaille Senior Transportation Foundation Event took place at the Somerville Holiday Inn on Washington Street in Somerville this past Monday night.
Continue reading Somerville 2014 Edith Chaille Senior Transportation Foundation Event →

Brown School Winter Concert
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
6:30-8:00pm
at the Capuano School, 150 Glen Street, Somerville
The Brown School Winter Concert will feature performances by the Kindergarten-grade 3 general music Continue reading Two Upcoming Concerts at the Capuano School Somerville →

By William Tauro

The first holiday tree of the season is set up at the entrance of Assembly Square in Somerville.

Workers set up and put on the finishing touches on the 20′ tree on Tuesday and decorated it with all sorts of festive carpentry tools galore as ornaments.