Members of Somerville Aux Fire/Cert team helped distribute food from food bank to elderly, and others in need. Along with with several volunteers, they also bagged more than 25K face masks to be distributed to several city agencies. These tasks started last Tuesday and continued until Friday evening. Countless hours were volunteered to make this all happen, with all working on their own time.
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In the last few weeks we have seen a shift in our society. The talk is not about growth and development but about helping our fellow citizens survive and thank those who make it possible. We are looking, hopefully, to sustain life.
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The word is out that construction activities focused on laying the final section of tracks for the Green Line Extension in the Somerville and Medford areas will be taking place at night over the next few weeks.
According to reports, the construction work will mainly take place in the area between College Ave. and Lowell St. and will involve all sorts of potentially very noisy activities.
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Eagle Feathers #204 – Diamonds of the Park
By Bob (Monty) Doherty
The distance from Somerville to Boston’s 4 Jersey Street, also known as Fenway Park, is three miles by the way the crow files. This 108-year-old shrine to Major League Baseball is the oldest in the nation. While named the “Boston” Red Sox, the team and the sport have many connections with Somerville.
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The 104th Fighter Wing and its F-15 fighter jets flew over Somerville on their path to health care facilities across Massachusetts to honor frontline responders during the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, May 6.
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Doug Bielmeier creates commercial drone/experimental electronic music featuring lap steel with live processing. Bielmeier’s music is “drone work meant to shake you out of your shell. (Midwest Record)” and “hypnotically static yet ever moving within itself. (Classical-Modern Music Review).”
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“My name is Marcelo Jerome Brociner. I’m currently the media teacher at Somerville High School, my alma mater. I am also a rapper, having written and released dozens of songs, and an event producer (see the annual ONE show or my 2017 exhibition in Hanoi, Vietnam). Attached are two poems that I have written in the time since the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closing of all Somerville school campuses back in mid-March.”
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Here is a COVID-19 update for Tuesday, May 12.
Please also be sure to check somervillema.gov/covid19 for information and resources that are updated frequently.
Latest news:
- Case Counts: As of 11 a.m. today, May 12, a total of 712 Somerville residents have tested positive for COVID-19, 420 of them have since recovered, and sadly there have been 17 deaths. More Somerville case data can be found on the City’s COVID-19 Dashboard
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