[ June 30, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] This meeting is important because this use could tie up the site for a long time and affect local property values.

Construction starting right now on roads and infrastructure at and around Assembly Square. IKEA not to start construction until after Spring 2011. Planned improvements to Kensington Ave. pedestrian crossing from Stop & Shop to Assembly Square.

At the end of the school year, it seems, people find themselves inclined to reflect on what they like about their kid’s school.  You might suspect that the following five cheerleaders were paid for their comments, but I know that they are not (with the exception of Joe B., whom I’m pretty sure they don’t [...]

[ June 27, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come share your ideas for the blog. We’re meeting Sunday, 6 to 8, at the Somerville Visiting Nurses assisted living building, 259 Lowell Street.

There was some good news tonight for school custodians, at the city budget hearing at City Hall. It was announced that the mayor and the custodians’ union is in negotiations, and so it’s possible that the layoff of 49 custodians and outsourcing of their jobs may be avoided.

[ June 24, 2010; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. ] At this discussion we will review the DRAFT bullying plan, data that points to strategies for improving the implementation of the District’s award-winning Wellness Policy, and the plan for improving the implementation of the District’s Safe and Drug Free Schools Plan.

Due to numerous recent inquiries about the sport, The Somerville Recreation Department is attempting to determine the level of interest for the sport of Lacrosse in the City of Somerville

“In budget-cutting season, politics can be brutal,” wrote the author of a recent View from Prospect Hill column in the Somerville News.  With an $8.1 million budget gap, it is imperative that the city cut costs.  However, the current, shortsighted approach, with its focus on outsourcing hourly jobs, will sow the seeds of discord for [...]

The Somerville Public Schools’ Food Services provides free breakfasts and lunches at Somerville playgrounds, fields, parks and pools.  Let them eat picnic!  Here are the particulars:
FREE Breakfast will be distributed to any Somerville youth who asks Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning on June 29th in Albion Park and Grimmons Park. FREE breakfast will also be [...]

[ June 22, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] I would like to let people in Somerville and anywhere else know about a rally against the mayor and his wrong budget choices.

WHEN:  June 22, 2010 6 pm

WHERE:  City Hall, 93 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143

The school custodians did everything but give a kidney to him and that was not good enough. The custodians are [...]

FREE MEALS ALL SUMMER FOR ALL YOUTH STARTING JUNE 28TH.

FREE Breakfast for ALL Somerville youth on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning on June 29th in Albion Park and Grimmons Park. FREE breakfast available between 9:45 -10:00 AM at Kidstop in Powderhouse Park beginning on July 6th.

FREE lunches are dropped off for for ALL Somerville Youth [...]

[ June 22, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] Jackie Lawrence of the Somerville Teachers Association extends an invitation to rally to support our fellow Somerville employees whose jobs are in peril.

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Support our Good, Hardworking People

Despite the offer by the School Custodians’ Union to accept nearly $800,000 in concessions, the Mayor’s office has relentlessly and heartlessly charged forward in giving notice that the custodians [...]

[ June 30, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] All citizens of Somerville and Medford should evaluate this document and give feedback, because this is one of the final steps before the project begins implementation. Written comments will be accepted until July 23 at holly.s.johnson@state.ma.us.

[ June 24, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] This meeting is important because it deals with ongoing Somerville developments.

[ June 22, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] All hearings on the City Budget are important, because the Budget decides where the money goes.

[ June 21, 2010; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] This meeting is important because it deals with ADA accessibility throughout the MBTA system.

[ June 21, 2010 to July 23, 2010. ] All citizens of Somerville and Medford should evaluate this document and give feedback, because this is one of the final steps before the project begins implementation. There will be a public meeting on June 30. Written comments will be accepted until July 23 at holly.s.johnson@state.ma.us.

[ June 19, 2010; ] Books of Hope’s

Mystic Ink Tour is keepin it live and rollin as it moves through New England bringing poetry performances by today’s youth and books that they’ve written to communities near you!

Saturday, June 19th the tour rolls into Roxbury and Cambridge…

Catch us at 2 pm, performing before thousands at the annual Juneteenth–Roxbury Homecoming in Franklin [...]

The OPENAIR Circus opens its doors for the 25th time this summer.  Each year, over a hundred children ages 3-15 learn self confidence and an appreciation for community and the arts through a great variety of circus skills, from juggling to stilting to stage combat, from hip hop to hula hoops.  [...]

[ June 26, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] · Screening of A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish, Sat. 6/26 7 – 9 pm at First Church Somerville, 89 College Avenue.   This newly released film is about ocean acidification, climate change, and solutions. For more info. visit: http://www.aseachange.net

Co-sponsored by First Church Somerville, Somerville Climate Action, and Ocean River Institute.

[ June 24, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The annual Somerville LIVING GREEN FESTIVAL will take place Thur. 6/24 6 – 9 pm Argenziano School, 290 Washington Street, Union Square

Learn to live green(er)!  Topics will include saving energy & money, gardening, eating local, reducing waste, learning about green building, reducing toxics.  Energy-efficiency workshop in Spanish. Presentation by Climate Student Riders at 7:00pm.   Kids [...]

[ June 23, 2010; 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm. June 24, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. June 26, 2010; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Tuesday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 27th, 2010 is SOMERVILLE CLIMATE WEEK!

· Somerville Welcomes Climate Riders! Tues. 6/22 to Sun. 6/27

Somerville hosts six New England Climate Summer Student Riders who are spending their summer biking from town to town.  The goal: to raise awareness about the climate crisis and energize communities to do something [...]

The Parts and Crafts Collective is running a girls invention week as part of our new summer program in Somerville. Our program is about “making things and making things happen” — building light sabers, making bread and cheese, launching bottle rockets, and taking things apart! We run on a sliding [...]

[ June 28, 2010; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] This meeting is important because composted Somerville garbage could be used on Somerville gardens, and because 77% of Somerville surfaces are paved.

The Mayor of Somerville has yet again stolen another idea from Cambridge: road races. He should be spending time and energy to help get us out of this financial crush.

I am a school custodian for the City of Somerville.  I see a Boston Herald article that Boston is cutting 83 school custodians.
Reading the comments ( there are 249 comments so far!) I see that many of what these other people are saying is true; however,  one thing that is not [...]

[ June 17, 2010; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] After a year of many successes and some direction setting work, we are excited to end one year and begin another!

[ June 19, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] This event is important because it will improve our city and ourselves.

Dear Friends of Somerville Schools,
I want to update you on the school budget process and to alert you to slight change of dates.
The Superintendent presented his proposed budget to the School Committee at the Public Hearing on June 10. Several members of the audience commented on the budget and its priorities.  Documents relevant to the [...]

FY11 Budget Update, School calendar, Bullying prevention, Summer reading, Summer activities, SPS on Twitter…

[ June 13, 2010; 12:00 pm to 3:45 pm. ] SOMERVILLE YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE

TRAVEL TEAM REGISTRATION INFORMATION – FALL 2010

FIELD EVALUATIONS – SUNDAY JUNE 13

All players who attend evaluations will be placed on a team.

Field evaluations are for all players born between Aug 1, 1998, and July 31, 2002 in order to form teams as players move up in the travel league. All [...]

[ June 30, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] From www.Mass.gov/GreenLineExtension :
A public meeting on the FEIR will be held on Wednesday, June 30th at 6PM at the Somerville High School Auditorium.  The FEIR will be available on June 16 on the project website.  Comments are due to the MEPA Office by Jule 23, 2010.

Fellow Somervillans… I am proud to, once again, be the bearer of great news. Your community access television station has been selected as number one for nationwide excellence by the Alliance for Community Media… SCATV has been awarded this singular honor for the fifth time in the past six years.

[ June 20, 2010; ] Bring Dad to any of a list of Somerville restaurants on Father’s Day and the restaurant will make a donation in his honor to the Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS).

[ June 9, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Watch out for the Asian long horned beetle!
Posted by: “Susann Wilkinson” swilkins@MIT.EDU
Mon Jun 7, 2010 6:00 am (PDT)

Join us for a discussion of the pests of New England

On Wednesday, June 9th, the Somerville Garden Club will sponsor a
short course by horticulturalist Debra Elson, on the Asian Longhorned
Beetle (ALB) and other pests. The meeting is 7-9pm, [...]

[ June 15, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] This film is important because parts of Somerville are environmental justice areas close to pollution sources and suffer higher than average levels of heart and lung disease.

Registration is now OPEN for the TOPSOCCER SUMMER PROGRAM!
Saturday June 19th – July 31st
10:00am – 11:00am
Capuano Field – 150 Glen Street, Somerville, MA
Open to special needs children of all ages & abilities.  TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) is a community-based training and team placement program for young athletes with disabilities, organized by [...]

[ June 9, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] This meeting is important because Somerville Historic Districts are important to maintaining the city’s character and to controlling development.

[ June 9, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] This meeting is important because it deals with ongoing developments at Assembly Square and East Somerville.

[ June 7, 2010; 4:30 pm; ] This meeting is important because MPO’s plans determine where to spend billions of dollars of Federal money in Eastern Massachusetts.

Dear Friends of Somerville Schools,
I want to let folks know that documents relevant to the budget planning process for our schools for the next fiscal year are now available on the School Department website. I have pasted the link here and at the bottom of this email.
Update, Read Slight Change in School Budgeting Timeline
http://www.somerville.k12.ma.us/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=14074&catfilter=1183#showDoc
Please note [...]

[ June 18, 2010; 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. June 19, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] A new dance performance choreographed by a wonderful Somerville choreographer (who just happens to be my daughter) will premiere Friday, June 18, at 8 pm, and Saturday, June 19, at 3 and 8 pm, at the BU Dance Theater at 915 Commonwealth Ave.  (enter from Buick Street).

Tickets: $25, $20 Student/Senior/BDA, $10 Children under 12.
Available at 617-358-2500 and www.akhra.org/tix.html

Here’s [...]

This SCAT program grew out of a sister city link between Somerville and Tiznit, Morocco. Three people from Somerville tell about their trip to Morocco, and a Moroccan school teacher talks about his trip here.

All Spring debate has raged both within and outside of the A.D. Healey School about how to resolve the severe income gap between the two K-6 programs in the school, Choice (38% low income) and Neighborhood (90% low income).  Last night the school committee heard the Superintendent’s long-awaiting recommendation on the future structure of the [...]

[ June 6, 2010; 10:00 am; ] The Paul Duhamel Education Initiative, in its 14th year, will be holding its 5th annual “Walk to Keep Kids in School,” walking for 2.5 miles along the Somerville Bike Path starting at Davis Square on Sunday, June 6, 2010, at 10 a.m. (starting by JP Licks!). It will be held rain or shine and is [...]

[ June 3, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] This meeting is important because it relates to the ongoing Green Line Extension.

[ June 2, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] This meeting is important because it provides an early opportunity to influence future plans for Davis Square.

[ June 2, 2010; 8:00 am; ] This meeting is important because it reports how livable, transit-oriented development is being supported by the current administration.

[ June 1, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] This meeting is important because it deals with citizen-initiated zoning changes.

[ June 8, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] As a member of the Democratic City Committee, I received the following meeting announcement today:

Where : VNA, 259 Lowell St.

Agenda includes:

Election of a new Female Vice Chair
Reports from the State Democratic Convention
Presentation by the Tufts Employee Association by Will Erikson

[ June 6, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] The Paul Duhamel Education Initiative, in its 14th year, will be holding its 5th annual “Walk to Keep Kids in School,” walking for 2.5 miles along the Somerville Bike Path starting at Davis Square on Sunday, June 6, 2010, at 10 a.m. It will be held rain or shine and is sure to be a [...]

[ June 8, 2010; 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Taste of Somerville Works to Go Green on June 8

With 400+ diners and 32 restaurants expected, more help needed with conservation and recycling.

Somerville, MA – May 24, 2010 – Door2Door Transportation by SCM and Triumvirate Environmental today announced steps the Taste of Somerville (www.tasteofsomerville.org) will take to move toward its goal of becoming a [...]

[ June 14, 2010; 6:15 pm; ] This meeting is important because it gives citizens a chance to provide feedback to the City on how things are going in their neighborhoods.

[ June 1, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] This meeting is important because Somerville’s citywide development for the next twenty years will be shaped by the comprehensive plan. This meeting is open to the public.

[ May 12, 2010; 6:00 pm; May 18, 2010; 7:00 pm; June 2, 2010; 7:00 pm; June 10, 2010; 7:00 pm; June 14, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] Dear Friends, As you probably know, in May and June the School Committee enters the height of the budget season as we make plans for the next fiscal year, which begins on July 1. This is always a complicated process and one best conducted with the public fully informed of the process.

[ June 10, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The time/location of this meeting is still to be determined. Please visit the “events” page of the Somerville Public Schools’ website, http://www.somerville.k12.ma.us/events, or the “School Committee” page of the site, http://www.somerville.k12.ma.us/school_committee, for additional details.

You can also follow the Somerville Public Schools on Twitter, @svilleschools monitor updates on the District’s Facebook Fan Page for event [...]

[ June 1, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The time/location of this meeting is still to be determined. Please visit the “events” page of the Somerville Public Schools’ website, http://www.somerville.k12.ma.us/events, or the “School Committee” page of the site, http://www.somerville.k12.ma.us/school_committee, for additional details.

You can also follow the Somerville Public Schools on Twitter, @svilleschools monitor updates on the District’s Facebook Fan Page for event [...]

[ June 12, 2010; 10:00 am; ] This meeting is important because it relates to land use around the new Green Line stations in Somerville and to the forthcoming Comprehensive Plan for Somerville.

[ June 2, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] At this meeting, citizens will evaluate professional designs and documentation for the Green stations in your neighborhood.

[ May 12, 2010; 6:00 pm; May 18, 2010; 7:00 pm; June 2, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] Adam Sweeting, School Committee Chair of the Finance and Facilities Committee, sent out this letter to a Somerville Schools Yahoo group today.  If you go to any of these meetings, please blog your impressions as comments to this post.  We’d love to know what’s happening to our schools, kids, jobs, etc.

Dear Friends,

As you know, in [...]

[ June 16, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Wednesday, June 16th, 2010, 7:30 >
Location : Somerville High School Auditorium (81 Highland Avenue

[ June 16, 2010; 5:00 pm; ] Wednesday, June 16th, 2010, 5:00 >

[ June 16, 2010; ] Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Location : Healey School (5 Meacham Street)

[ June 7, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] Monday, June 7th, 2010, 6:00 >
Location : Dilboy Stadium

[ June 3, 2010; ] Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Location : Healey School (5 Meacham Street)

[ June 8, 2010; 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Plan to Attend Taste of Somerville on June 8

Enjoy samples from 30 of the area’s favorite restaurants on June 8, from 5:30-8:30 pm at the Somerville Holiday Inn. This festive welcome to summer is presented by title sponsor, Triumvirate Environmental, and Door2Door Transportation by SCM, whose work providing community-based transportation is supported by the event. Tickets at www.tasteofsomerville.org. Follow restaurant additions on twitter @TasteofSomervil

[ February 20, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. March 20, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. April 24, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. May 22, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. June 19, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. July 24, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Approximately fifteen people crowded around two small tables this afternoon at the Danish Pastry House in Medford to share their concerns and questions in a wide-ranging conversation with State Representative Carl Sciortino at his first district coffee hour of the year. 

The discussion covered topics including the difficulty of getting parking permits in Medford, poor [...]