At yesterday's Prospect Hill Tower reopening ceremony, I picked up a leaflet listing additional times when you can climb the tower this fall:

Saturday, October 1, 2-4 pm
Thursday, October 13, 5:30-6:30 pm
Saturday, October 15, 2-4 pm
Thursday, November 3, 4:30-6:30 pm

According to email I just received from Kristen Stelljes <kstelljes@somervillema.gov>, the Prospect Hill Tower opening event is postponed to tomorrow at 5:30 pm, due to forecast of thunderstorms tonight.

EDIT 9/19 10:30 am: This event will be postponed to Tuesday, September 20 at 5:30 pm, because of forecasted thunderstorms tonight.
an e-mail I got from the city: Come celebrate the completion of the first Somerville CPA project- Prospect Hill Tower!

Join Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 3 Alderman Robert J. McWatters, the Community Preservation ( Read more... )

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I got email from Kristen Stelljes saying that the Prospect Hill Tower opening ceremony, originally scheduled for tomorrow evening, is postponed due to a forecast of rain and scattered thunderstorms. They haven't yet announced a new date.

I have no connection to this event but ( Read more... )

EDIT 5/23: This event has been postponed due to a forecast of rain on Tuesday. The city has not yet announced a rescheduled date.

according to an alert on the city's web site. Join Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 3 Alderman Robert McWatters, the Community Preservation Committee and Community Preservation Act (CPA) project implementers ( Read more... )

In this thread, I stated that I personally recalled Charlie Chisholm running racist and anti-immigrant campaigns against then-Ward 6 Alderman Jack Connolly in the early 1990s. At that time, Somerville's "Sanctuary City" resolution welcoming immigrants was a major political issue. People have (understandably) challenged me for hard evidence, so I ( Read more... )

The post on gentrification reminded me of something that I've been meaning to post here for ages. About a year ago, I searched the NYT for every article mentioning Somerville MA, as far back as its archives go. I compiled links to all of them by year. Here is the resultTo sum up -- from 1860 to 1995 is pretty much all "murder and mayhem" (including ( Read more... )

After reading some of the recent posts here, I wanted to ask ( Read more... )