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On Monday, November 12, City and Somerville Public Schools offices will be closed in observance of Veterans Day. Because of the holiday, trash collection will be on a one-day delay all week. There will not be street sweeping on Monday and parking meters and resident parking permits will not be enforced.
Mayor Joseph Curtatone, School Supt. Mary Skipper, Unruly Founder Bryanne Leeming, and AT&T New England President, Patricia Jacobs came to the Winter Hill Community School Wednesday to watch the 6th graders there demonstrate how they use tiles called “Splats” to help them learn to code. You can check out what the Splats do at: https://www.unrulysplats.com. Unruly was the winner of AT&T’s Aspire Accelerator grant. During the event, Bryanne Leeming announced that AT&T had made additional funding support to Unruly that will allow the startup to expand their STEM pilot program to every K-8 school in the city of Somerville.
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Professional landscaper and activist Tori Antonino.
By JT Thompson
Tori Antonino grew up in suburbia, in the town of Braintree, went to college at Colby, and has been living in Somerville for the past two decades. She owns and runs her own ecological landscaping business, and is a passionate activist, advocating for the creation of more green and open space.
Antonino is the co-founder of Green and Open Somerville, which recently lead a community installation of the CPA funded Butterfly Garden Pocket Park, at Summer Street and Craigie, a nature space that “is going to be gorgeous. We need open green spaces for the health of the community, we need nature for sanity and physical health. We need to use our greenspace to restore the ecosystem and bring back the pollinators, and reel in climate change.”
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Commissioner of Veterans’ Services Bryan Bishop and Robert Hardy, Commander of George Dilboy VFW Post #529, cordially invite the public to the 2018 Veterans Day Ceremony which will be held: Saturday November 10, 2018 at 10 a.m., George Dilboy VFW Post #529, 371 Summer Street, Somerville, Massachusetts 02144.
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By Jim Clark
While conducting an arrest at a Memorial Rd. location last week, Somerville Police officers heard a familiar female voice yelling from across the street.
When an officer turned around, he recognized the person as Briana Barnoski, of Lynn, with whom he had previous encounters in the line of duty.
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Final Two Flu Clinics for 2018 Cancelled
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The Somerville Department of Health and Human Services announced today that the city’s allotted supply of flu vaccines for 2018 has been fully exhausted, and therefore the final two planned flu clinics of the year, scheduled for Thursday, November 8, and Thursday, November 20, have been cancelled. HHS does not anticipate receiving additional vaccines, however residents are encouraged to receive the flu vaccine if you have not already done so. Vaccines are generally available by contacting your physician’s office, or at a local pharmacy.
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Somerville resident Justin Rank was one of many community members who appeared to speak before the Planning Board and Land Use Committee, expressing his views on the proposed new zoning ordinance.
By Jim Clark
On the evening of Tuesday, October 30, the City of Somerville Planning Board and the Board of Aldermen Land Use Committee gathered at East Somerville Community School to hold a joint public hearing on the proposed zoning ordinance.
Members of the community were invited to speak and share their thoughts and concerns over the new zoning regulations that are currently nearing completion.
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“i i on the pi pi” [“eyes” on the pi’s”] won first place in Somerville Math Funds Scrapheap Showdown.
On October 28, 27 high school students on 9 teams gathered in “The Cage” in Cousens Gym at Tufts University to compete in the Somerville Mathematics Fund’s 13th annual Scrapheap Showdown. Instead of just the usual interesting “junk” in the center of the room when the students walked in, there were also piles of foam core. The students were given their challenge: to design and build a catapult on a base of homasote board. The teams worked intensely, designing, building, testing, reinforcing, and adjusting their catapults.
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