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Powder House Community School Focus Group

Posted by Ron Newman at 3:23 pm on April 27, 2010

PARTICIPATE IN POWDER HOUSE COMMUNITY SCHOOL REUSE FOCUS GROUP: The City of Somerville is seeking community volunteers to participate in a Powder House/Teele Square Focus Group. The Group will be led by City staff to gather community consensus on a vision for the future and identify steps to make that vision a reality. [...]

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Posted in Announcements, Development and Zoning, Schools and Youth, Teele Square, Ward 7 | No Comments »

Obscure Stairways of Somerville

Posted by Ron Newman at 11:01 am on April 26, 2010

Somerville has a number of stairways that pedestrians can use to walk between places that aren’t well-connected by streets. Most of these are poorly marked and unknown to people outside their immediate neighborhood.
I’ve made a Google map called Obscure Stairways of Somerville, showing 12 of these staircases. If you know of more, [...]

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Davis Sq Task Force meets Tuesday 12/1

Posted by Ron Newman at 12:03 am on November 24, 2009

[ December 1, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The next meeting of the Davis Square Task Force will be on Tuesday December 1st, 7-9 pm at the Tufts Administration Building, 167 Holland St.  The agenda items are below.  Please let Rebekah Gewirtz (rebekah@rcn.com) know if there are additional items you would like to see added.

Agenda for Davis Sq Task Force Meeting
Tuesday December 1, 2009, 7-9pm

7-7:10- Introductions

7:10-7:20 – Community Updates

7:20-8:30 [...]

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Tour de Somerville: City of Seven (Or More) Hills

Posted by Ron Newman at 3:17 am on September 29, 2009

[ October 17, 2009; 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Join the Somerville Bicycle Committee for our 17th annual fall Tour de Somerville. This year’s theme is “Somerville: City of Seven (Or More) Hills”.

We’ll meet on Saturday, October 17 at 10 am at Seven Hills Park (behind the Holland Street T entrance in Davis Square), leaving promptly at 10:15.

Our ride will be approximately 11 miles, [...]

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Bicycle Tour of Historic Somerville – Sunday 5/31

Posted by Ron Newman at 5:59 pm on May 19, 2009

[ May 31, 2009; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Join the Somerville Bicycle Committee and the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission for a bike tour featuring Somerville’s many historic houses of worship.

We’ll meet at Somerville City Hall, 93 Highland Avenue, at 2 pm on Sunday, May 31. We’ll take about three hours to ride about nine miles, stopping along the way to see various churches [...]

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Tour de Somerville: Explore Somerville’s Outer Limits by Bike

Posted by Ron Newman at 6:56 am on October 1, 2008

[ October 18, 2008; 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Join the Somerville Bicycle Committee for the 16th Annual Tour de Somerville on Saturday, October 18th.   We’ll meet at 10 am at Seven Hills Park, behind the Holland Street T entrance in Davis Square.    From there, we’ll trace the entire boundary of our city, from leafy Alewife Brook and Tufts University to gritty [...]

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This Saturday (5/31): Somerville History Bicycle Tour

Posted by Ron Newman at 8:36 am on May 29, 2008

This Saturday, May 31, I’m co-leading a bicycle tour of historical sights around Somerville, on behalf of the Somerville Bicycle Committee and the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission. The ride will focus on the many commuter rail stations that Somerville once had, and on the Green Line stations that will soon take their place.

The ride starts at 10 am at Somerville City Hall …

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