Tom Taylor honored for decades of public service
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An appreciative assemblage of colleagues and constituents honored the retired, 27-year-serving alderman of Ward 3. Tom Taylor, at last week’s general meeting of the Board of Alderman.

By David R. Smith

Somerville’s longest-serving ward aldermen received what may have been the longest-lasting round of applause the aldermen’s chamber has seen as he was honored last week for his decades of service to the city during an emotional opening to his former board’s meeting that was attended –and very well so- by family, friends and former constituents.

By David R. Smith

The citations awarded to former Ward 3 alderman Tom Taylor last week – the longest-serving ward alderman in the city’s history – was filled with deep and sincere expressions of love and gratitude.

But it also came with plenty of laughs, such as the story Mayor Joe Curtatone shared about Taylor and his less-than-friendly relationship with the pigeons that nested under the McGrath Highway overpass (for all the obvious reasons).