Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte
The songs Happy Together, Something Stupid, and Groovin’ were playing on our transistor radios as we listened to WRKO AM.
It was the summer of 1967 and four Somerville kids ages 11-14 were excited to have been on furlough from the local adolescent detention center. Actually, we were on summer vacation from St. Clements Parochial School.
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By Jim Clark
Correction: We regret that there were some significant inaccuracies in the May 22 page 1 article Short term rental ordinance set for recommendation to the City Council.” The article was based on an earlier draft of the ordinance. The short term rental ordinance did pass the City Council on May 23. That version can be found at www.somervillema.gov/strs
A final draft of an ordinance that would require the registration of short term rental properties was submitted to the City Council’s Legislative Matters Committee by the City Solicitor at the Committee’s latest meeting on May 16, 2019.
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By Denise Keniston
John Hallam and Terri Swartzel consider themselves amateurs on Somerville’s flourishing home gardening scene. They relish the challenge of growing crisp, colorful vegetables and bright, bouncy flowers in an urban environment set against the backdrop of New England’s often inhospitable growing conditions.
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By Marshall Collins
The City of Somerville has been focused on increasing open space for years, but the issue is coming into focus now more than ever before: The city council and planning board meet regularly to discuss the matter, and the city is more broadly looking at the future of open space as it reevaluates its goals in SomerVision 2040.
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Eagle Feathers #179 – King of the Hills
By Bob (Monty) Doherty
Somerville is said to be the City of Seven Hills, and Seven Hills Park in Davis Square highlights them. In reality, the city has fourteen hills known by twenty-eight different names. For over three centuries, Winter Hill has been the most notable.
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It began as a way to memorialize the military casualties of the Civil War, and was originally termed Decoration Day.
Decorating the graves of the countless multitudes of fallen soldiers helped to console the grieving survivors of the debacle while uniting the once divided nation in a worthwhile common cause.
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The City of Somerville is seeking applications from Somerville residents to serve on the Mayor’s Commission on Energy Use and Climate Change (CEUCC). The CEUCC provides the city and the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and Environment with technical and policy advice on the topics of climate change and energy.
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