Employees throughout Somerville and all of Massachusetts love working at Riverside due to the compassionate culture, diverse workforce, and mission-driven ethos.

Riverside Community Care, a nonprofit leader in behavioral healthcare and human services with services at 117 Summer Street and throughout Somerville, has been named a 2023 Top Place to Work by The Boston Globe. The winners were featured in Globe Magazine on Sunday, December 3. 

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The new Somerville High School includes a wheelchair-accessible entrance
built during the building’s construction from 2018 to 2021.

The City of Somerville’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Transition Plan Task Force, which will review and update the city’s ADA Transition Plan, is accepting applications from community members to join the Task Force.

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Taking the Illuminations tour

On December 22, 2023, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

166 Central St. — Photos by Bobbie Toner

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Many of Somerville’s best and brightest holiday light displays have been enjoyed by those taking a self-guided Illuminations tour.  Through early January 2024 take the time to enjoy a self-guided tour using Somerville’s official online Illuminations Map. For map and more information visit https://somervilleartscouncil.org/illuminationstour.

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Somerville’s Christmas Holiday Schedule

On December 22, 2023, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

 

Study’s Findings Will Inform City’s Work to Help Small Businesses Navigate Potential Gentrification 

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and the City of Somerville’s Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development (OSPCD) are announcing the release of Mitigating Commercial Displacement in Somerville, MA, a study commissioned by Somerville’s Economic Development team, and authored by graduate students from the Rappaport Greater Boston Advanced Applied Field Lab and the Bloomberg-Harvard Cities Field Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.   

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Boston Media Theory – Doug Holder

On December 21, 2023, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times


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Marcus Breen talks with the poet Doug Holder.

 

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne is announcing that the City of Somerville, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), have successfully reached a collective bargaining agreement that will provide better wages and benefits for these essential public safety employees.

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Shop Somerville

On December 21, 2023, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

There have been tons of stores in Somerville that we used to shop in. I thought it would be fun to go back and revisit some of these places. I asked this question: what stores of old did you do your Christmas shopping at?

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Somerville named one of nation’s digital inclusion trailblazers

On December 20, 2023, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) has named the City of Somerville as a 2023 Digital Inclusion Trailblazer, recognizing the city’s efforts to close the digital divide. The NDIA is focused on advancing digital equity by supporting community programs and equipping policymakers to act.

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Meeting held to discuss East Somerville unhoused population

On December 20, 2023, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

Efforts to assist the unhoused in East Somerville were discussed at the latest meeting of the Public Health and Public Safety Committee. — Photo by Bridget Frawley

By Bridget Frawley

The Somerville City Council discussed efforts being taken to assist the unhoused population in East Somerville during their monthly Public Health and Public Safety Committee meeting on December 11.

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