14 health care providers now administering the JYNNEOS vaccine statewide
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) announced 42 additional cases of monkeypox in adult males within the past seven days, bringing the total number of monkeypox cases in the Commonwealth to 157 residents since the state’s first case was announced on May 18. DPH provides public updates on monkeypox in Massachusetts on a weekly basis each Thursday.
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I met Sandra Allik in her space at the Miller St. Studios in Somerville. Her studio is a bubble of color – with many vivid paintings lining the walls.
Allik told me she finds the artistic environs in Somerville pleasing. She said, “I love my studio. I moved here in 2009; and presently there are a great group of artists working here. Recently, I exhibited at the Inside/Out Gallery, which is basically a CVS window in Davis Square. I sold one of my paintings for 1800 dollars. I was surprised it sold because it was in an unassuming store window.”
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Bob “Monty” Doherty is a local historian. You can find his Historical Fact of the Week column in The Somerville Times. He has written over 200 of the columns to date. Doherty joined the Somerville Fire Department in 1974, before retiring in 2012 he was one of the city’s Fire Inspectors. While on that job he would try to learn as many historical facts as he could about the house he was inspecting. You can see him at a table of many local events willing to talk about the history of Somerville.
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Open Positions: Four;Term: Three years
The Somerville Commission for Persons with Disabilities (SCPD) seeks four new members, and Somerville residents are encouraged to apply. Three of the openings must be filled by people who identify as having a disability, and one must be filled by a Somerville resident who is a family member of a person with a disability.
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The next-gen LEGO® Discovery Center will open in early 2023
Opening in spring 2023, LEGO® Discovery Center Boston will give families in Boston and across the northeast the opportunity to experience the next generation LEGO Discovery Center following a $12 million-dollar renovation. This will be the world’s first renovation of a LEGOLAND® Discovery Center to a LEGO Discovery Center along with a sister attraction in LEGOLAND Discovery Center Atlanta.
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The Somerville Health Foundation, administered by Cambridge Health Alliance, serves to promote and support educational, research and outreach programs that improve primary care and preventive health services for residents of Somerville. The Foundation is soliciting proposals from 501(c)3 organizations for projects that will support the provision of primary care and preventive health services accessible to the residents of Somerville.
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HONK! 2022. The dates for this year’s music festival of activist street bands, October 7-9, are cast in stone. The bird’s-eye view of plans for this year’s HONK! is in place. The fine-tuning has begun in earnest, with a more complete schedule of in-person free outdoor events available soon after Labor Day weekend.
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By State Senator Pat Jehlen
First, an update: I’m happy to say that the. governor signed the Act Expanding Protections for Reproductive and Gender-affirming Care, that I wrote about in an earlier newsletter.
As you probably know, the legislature finally adjourned formal sessions at about 10 am Monday, after an all-night session. In the last few days, we passed many important bills. The governor can still decide to sign, veto, or send them back with amendments. It’s too late to override a veto, or to deal with an amendment unless there is unanimous support.
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