Somerville’s fiscal year 2025 budget public hearing, June 4

On June 3, 2024, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times
 
Tomorrow’s public hearing on the FY25 budget will be primarily virtual at: https://somervillema.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Community members in need of technical assistance are welcome to join in-person at City Hall (93 Highland Ave.). All info at http://somervillema.gov/budget.

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Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and the Somerville Office of Health and Human Services invite all community members to honor LGBTQ+ Pride Month by joining the annual Pride flag raising ceremony on Tuesday, June 4. The ceremony will begin at 5:30 p.m. on the City Hall Concourse and include remarks from Mayor Ballantyne, City of Somerville LGBTQ+ Liaison Izzy Starr, and representatives from the Somerville youth LQBTQ+ community. 

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Somerville Police Crime Log May 21 – 27

On June 2, 2024, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times
 
Assault
On 5/22/24 at approximately 4:57 p.m, Somerville Police responded to Great River Rd. for report of an assault. Upon arrival, officers spoke with the victim who stated she was involved in an argument with a male party. During the argument, the male party spit at her. Officers identified the male suspect.

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Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, Somerville’s SomerViva Office of Immigrant Affairs, and the Somerville Worker Center, in partnership with the Brazilian Worker Center and the Brazilian Women’s Group, are announcing a free immigrant workers’ rights fair on Saturday, June 8, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Somerville Worker Center located at 530 Mystic Ave, Suite 111.

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Somerville is invited to get their dancing shoes on as the 2024 SomerStreets: Carnaval returns Sunday, June 2, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. (rain date Sunday, June 9) to kick off the 2024 SomerStreets season, which will include a series of four neighborhood street festivals across Somerville. 

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Pride comedy-variety event at The Rockwell

On June 1, 2024, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

Alexa Albanese is back at The Rockwell for the third year in a row to kick off Pride month. Don’t miss her original comedy-variety show that she’s almost as proud of as the fact that this will be “late-night comedy” at a reasonable hour.

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— Photo courtesy of City of Somerville

 
This temporary detour (approximately one week, weather permitting) will enable city contractors to pave the newly built path and loam/seed green space along the northern half of the park. Following paving, the new path will be opened to the public and work at the site will transition to the southern half of the park where the temporary community path currently sits. 

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Letter to the Editor: 90 Washington St. City Plan

On May 31, 2024, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

(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)

Dear Chairman Ercolini,

On May 14th, Cobble Hill residents gathered in a community space to watch a Zoom webinar of the 90 Washington Street Civic Advisory Committee’s (CAC) recommendations to the Somerville Redevelopment Authority (SRA). The presentation gave us a better understanding as to why Cobble Hill Apartments got dissevered in 2019 when the SRA voted to approve the 90 Washington Street Demonstration Project.

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Book review: ‘Jar City’ by Arnaldur Indridason

On May 31, 2024, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

By Dennis Fischman

It’s strange that there’s a whole genre of mystery we call the “Nordic noir.” Scandinavia consists of six or eight different countries, after all, and we wouldn’t lump Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Guido Brunetti, and Jimmy Perez together and call them “European detectives.”

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Nancy Bacci and Joe Lynch host the annual Somerville Memorial Day Parade on May 26, 2024

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