Mayor Joseph Curtatone, Ward 7 City Councilor Katjana Ballantyne, Somerville Police Chief David Fallon, and city staff invite you to a Powder House Blvd. Community Meeting on Tuesday, March 5. The meeting will include an update on the investigation into the February 8 fatal hit and run at Powder House Blvd. and Hardan Rd., as well as information about traffic calming measures on Powder House Blvd. Discussion will include information on the interim measures already in place, upcoming measures planned for the spring, a proposed plan for new permanent measures, and remaining options for community consideration. The meeting will start at 6:00 p.m. at the West Somerville Neighborhood School, 177 Powder House Blvd.

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The annual Somerville Maple Syrup Project has returned for its 16th season. It began with a local maple tree tapping on January 27 on Tufts University’s campus Somerville/Medford campus. The project will culminate in the Maple Syrup Boil Down on March 16 at Groundwork Somerville’s urban farm at 138 South Street, Somerville, MA. Each year over 1000 community members participates in the maple events. Go to www.groundworksomerville.org for more info.

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Somerville Rotary Club will be holding a night of comedy and fun for charity. You can help out by placing an ad or buying tickets. To place an ad, email it as a PDF or high-quality JPEG to Patricia McGovern at pmcgovern@ecsb.com. Ads must be submitted by Friday, March 8. For additional information about the event, please email Gilda M. Nogueria at gnogueira@ecsb.com. The event takes place March 28 at 6:30 p.m. at Giggles Comedy Club, 517 Broadway, Saugus.

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Join Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 1 City Councilor Matthew McLaughlin, Ward 2 City Councilor J.T. Scott, Ward 3 City Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen, City of Somerville staff, and representatives from the GLX team for a community meeting on Wednesday, March 13, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. to discuss the upcoming Washington St. bridge closure and detour routes. The meeting will be held in the auditorium at the East Somerville Community School, 50 Cross St. Starting in April 2019, GLX Constructors will begin reconstructing the Washington St. bridge in East Somerville, between Union Square and Inner Belt. The underpass below the bridge will close to all traffic, and detours will be in place for cars, bikes, pedestrians, and MBTA bus routes 86, 91, and CT2. This bridge and the underpass will close for two different intervals: first, from April 2019 through the fall of 2019, then again from the spring of 2020 through the fall of 2020. Additional temporary bridge closures are planned elsewhere in Somerville throughout 2019 and 2020. The first to close will be the Broadway bridge, between Ball Square and Magoun Square, beginning March 22, 2019, for a full year. The city held two public meetings about the Broadway bridge closure in the fall of 2018; this meeting will therefore focus primarily on upcoming construction and mitigation efforts in East Somerville. For more information, including detour maps, please visit www.somervillema.gov/glx or www.mass.gov/glx.

TEDxTufts is proud to present their 5th annual event, powered by the spread of ideas within and throughout the larger Tufts community. This year’s theme is Mosaic in Motion, speakers each focus on a specialized topic, honing in on an individualized subject with passion and intention. Yet altogether, the talks create a mosaic of the human experience: what it means to explore, understand, take action, and question further. TEDxTufts 2019: Mosaics in Motion will take place on Sunday, March 10, from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium on the Tufts University Campus. Tickets are $10. Find them on sale NOW at www.tedxtufts.com. Admission includes eight engaging speakers, free food from local restaurants, performances, and interactive experiential exhibits.

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Somerville High School will face Brookline High School on a new episode of WGBH’s High School Quiz Show. The show airs Saturday, March 2, at 6:00 p.m. on WGBH 2. Tune in and support their team. High School Quiz Show is a seeded, single-elimination tournament is produced and broadcast by WGBH and hosted by Billy Costa. Sixteen teams of Massachusetts high school students compete in the televised academic tournament. The sixteen schools competing on High School Quiz Show earned the highest scores on an identical oral quiz at WGBH’s “Super Sunday” qualifying event at WGBH studios in Brighton, MA.

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The Somerville Museum will host The Unofficial Somerville Antiques Road Show, Saturday, March 9, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. As part of the Somerville Museum’s current exhibit, Our Stories, Our Stuff, Our Somerville, and Community Curator Bess Paupeck, they will be hosting an unofficial antiques road show. Bring an object to the museum and let some of our local historians tell you what they think of it. $8 admission, members are free. Somerville Museum, 1 Westwood Rd., Somerville.

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Being an adult isn’t always easy. There are a lot of day-to-day, mundane things to take care of that many people have had to figure out on the fly. To give teens a head start on adulting, the Somerville Public Library (MA) Teen Room and the Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc. have teamed up to offer an Adult 101 Fair. Teens can get information about things like meal planning, coordinating travel, budgeting, and many other exciting adult tasks. The event will be on Thursday, February 28, from 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. at the Central Library. For more information, call Ellen at 617-623-5000 x2936.

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K- 5 students and their families are invited to join the annual Read by the River event hosted by Tufts University students. Performances, activities, a book reading by a New England Patriots player, and lots of books. Students can fill out and bring the book report to receive a free movie ticket. Sunday, March 3, from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Gantcher Center.