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Artist Yildiz Grodowski finds connections between abstract painting and improvisational dance. Just as she lets the music move her from within, she allows artistic intuition to bring life to her brush.
Grodowski’s work will be on display at Somerville Media Center, 90 Union Square, through November 30.
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Detour to be Implemented on Somerville Ave. Eastbound (Between Dane St. and the Somerville Ave./Washington St. Intersection) in November.
As part of the ongoing Somerville Ave. Utility & Streetscape Improvements Project, a work zone will require detour for through traffic from November 2018 through approximately April 2019. Access to businesses will be maintained.
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Somerville Planning Director and Harvard University Lecturer for Planning and Design George Proakis Named New Head of OSPCD
Somerville Senior Planner Sarah Lewis and Recent National Board Member of the Congress for the New Urbanism Named New Planning Director
After a decades-long distinguished career in community planning and economic development, including seven years at the helm of the City’s Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD), Michael Glavin has announced his retirement. Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone has named the City’s current nationally respected Director of Planning George Proakis the new Executive Director of OSPCD. Mayor Curtatone also announced that current Somerville Senior Planner Sarah Lewis, who led numerous community-based urban planning and design projects nationally before joining the City staff in 2016, will be the new Director of Planning. The transition will take place in late November.
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Information Session Planned for November 6 to discuss new program.
The City of Somerville’s Economic Development Division has launched Small Business Support, a technical assistance program for small and home-based businesses in the city, to provide expert coaching and financial support for local entrepreneurs.
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By Jim Clark
Police received a call from Assembly Row Security regarding an unwanted male in the elevator vestibule of Montaje Apartments on Canal St. and an officer was dispatched to investigate.
Upon arrival, the officer observed a man, later identified as Anthony Hooker, standing outside the elevators. He exited the building and stood outside directly across from the train station.
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Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte
My cousin, my son and myself were going through some of our parents, grandparents (and my son’s great grandparents’) belongings in the house that my Grandpa bought in 1918, off of Holland Street near Teele Square. My cousins’ mother (my aunt) and my dad were brother and sister and were both born in the house.
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The ongoing process of codifying the future of recreational marijuana sales in the city took yet another small step forward at last week’s meeting of the Board of Aldermen Legislative Matters Committee.
By Jim Clark
The City of Somerville Board of Aldermen Legislative Matters Committee of the Whole met last Thursday, October 18, during which time the drafting of the adult use of marijuana licensing ordinance was a topic of discussion.
Committee Chair Mark Niedergang led off by summarizing the key issues he identified as being important as the discussion went forward:
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Members and supporters of the workers advocacy group Somerville Stands Together held a rally in Union Square calling for the city to require developers to comply with an agreement to benefit local workers. — Photos by Bobbie Toner
By Jim Clark
On Monday of this week, members of Somerville Stands Together (SST) held a rally in Union Square, openly calling for the City of Somerville to require developer US2 to agree to a Community Benefits Agreement that includes a Project Labor Agreement, to make sure that, as they put it, Somerville benefits from the planned projects.
Demonstrators carried signs and chanted slogans such as, “Somerville stands for affordable housing! Somerville stands for good, union jobs! Somerville stands together!”
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Be Somerville
(The opinions and views expressed in the commentaries and letters to the Editor of The Somerville Times belong solely to the authors and do not reflect the views or opinions of The Somerville Times, its staff or publishers)
By Joseph A. Curtatone
A monthly look at ways to get involved with your city: Don’t just live in Somerville, be Somerville!
Zoning Ordinance Public Hearing, October 30
The Somerville Board of Aldermen Committee on Land Use, and the Somerville Planning Board, invite all interested community members to a joint Public Hearing on the adoption of a new Somerville Zoning Ordinance. The Hearing will take place on Tuesday, October 30, at 6 p.m. in the East Somerville Community School auditorium, 50 Cross Street. The new ordinance would supercede the current ordinance as originally adopted in 1990. Public comments will also be accepted by mail to OSPCD, Planning Division, 93 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143; by fax to 617-625-0722; or by email to planning@somervillema.gov.
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