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Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, Somerville’s SomerViva Office of Immigrant Affairs, and the Somerville Worker Center, in partnership with the Brazilian Worker Center and the Brazilian Women’s Group, are announcing a free immigrant workers’ rights fair on Saturday, June 8, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Somerville Worker Center located at 530 Mystic Ave, Suite 111.
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Somerville is invited to get their dancing shoes on as the 2024 SomerStreets: Carnaval returns Sunday, June 2, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. (rain date Sunday, June 9) to kick off the 2024 SomerStreets season, which will include a series of four neighborhood street festivals across Somerville.
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— Photo courtesy of City of Somerville
This temporary detour (approximately one week, weather permitting) will enable city contractors to pave the newly built path and loam/seed green space along the northern half of the park. Following paving, the new path will be opened to the public and work at the site will transition to the southern half of the park where the temporary community path currently sits.
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Dear Chairman Ercolini,
On May 14th, Cobble Hill residents gathered in a community space to watch a Zoom webinar of the 90 Washington Street Civic Advisory Committee’s (CAC) recommendations to the Somerville Redevelopment Authority (SRA). The presentation gave us a better understanding as to why Cobble Hill Apartments got dissevered in 2019 when the SRA voted to approve the 90 Washington Street Demonstration Project.
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By Dennis Fischman
It’s strange that there’s a whole genre of mystery we call the “Nordic noir.” Scandinavia consists of six or eight different countries, after all, and we wouldn’t lump Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Guido Brunetti, and Jimmy Perez together and call them “European detectives.”
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Budget delivers major investments in schools and workforce equity, builds resources for core services, social progress, and most vulnerable
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne’s proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget plan puts schools and worker equity front and center and delivers strong supports for core services, social progress, and the most vulnerable. From reading and math interventionists and embedded counselors for the schools to resources for alternative response, homelessness, affordable housing, seniors, and a shift to rodenticide-free rodent control, the carefully crafted $360M budget makes strategic strides on community priorities amid a tighter funding year. The budget will be formally submitted to the City Council on Thursday, May 30.
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An Exhibition of Work by Jennifer Erbe and Carolyn Muskat
Jennifer Erbe and Carolyn Muskat have been friends for over 40 years. As artists, they have had thousands of conversations about their work and their ideas. They have both focused on expressing the world around them in visual ways – each from their own unique perspective. Their work sometimes overlaps and highlights parallel interests; sometimes it creates a discourse in opposition. This exhibition celebrates a selection of work that has been sparking recent conversations between them about content, media and the act of making images.
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Change will precede construction of streetscape improvements including new sidewalks, cycle tracks in each direction, and new tree plantings. — Photo courtesy of City of Somerville
Beginning on Monday, June 17 or soon after, the segment of Central Street between Summer Street and Highland Avenue will become a permanently one-way northbound (travel from Summer St. north toward Highland Ave.) street for vehicle traffic.
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