Solarize Mass Somerville is a community initiative to increase the adoption of solar power for the city's homes and businesses. There's a press release out with a lot of the features of the program: http://www.somervillema.gov/news/solarize-campaign-sets-goal-200-somerville-property-owners-commit-install-solar-panels-0

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Press release from the city: http://www.somervillema.gov/news/new-somerville-data-farm-gives-real-time-look-city-operations

SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone is excited to announce a new home for the City's data sets, which gives Somerville residents easy access to the same data he uses to make decisions. Now you can take a trip to the Data ( Read more... )

Via Somerville By Design email:

We want your feedback! The draft of the Winter Hill Neighborhood Plan has enough substance that we felt it was important to offer you another opportunity to provide feedback. Click this link to download the plan. To provide us with your comments, questions, or concerns email us at [mem: redacted just to not ( Read more... )

Two interesting tidbits I noticed in the last couple of days.

Public talk, Hosted by Tufts Institute of the Environment, co-sponsored by the Mystic River Watershed Association: https://www.facebook.com/events/1030573890321787/Media coverage on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan has made us all aware of the devistation faced by residents of the ( Read more... )

In order to vote in the March 1 Massachusetts presidential primary, you must be registered by Wednesday, February 10. Voters who are enrolled in a party can vote only on that party's ballot. Registered voters who are "unenrolled" can vote on any (one) party's ballot. Doing so will not change your "unenrolled" status.

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Hello neighbors--

On this cold winter day, I'm delighted to share the sunny news that Somerville MA has been chosen by the MassCEC (Clean Energy Center) to be a Solarize Mass community! You can see the announcement here:
http://www.masscec.com/about-masscec/news/state-energy-officials-announce-five-new-communities-participate-solar-program

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Winter Hill Better Block is coming! We're holding a Winter Hill Better Block festival on December 12th from 4-8pm and December 13th from 12-4pm. The Winter Hill Better Block will be centered in the area between the new Winter Hill Brewing Company (328 Broadway) and the vacant area behind the post office as well as along some areas of Marshall ( Read more... )

Over the past few weeks there have been some meetings to refine some of the neighborhood discussions around improvements to Winter Hill, including events that we might have. Due to scheduling conflicts, I missed the meetings. But I have been getting the mailers, so I thought I'd tell you what I know from this. It sounds like we will have a winter ( Read more... )

There was a City Council primary this past Tuesday (why so early? well, one of the polling places is a synagogue...) that narrowed a field of 16 to 14. There are two seats available ( Read more... )