MassLive.com: Owner of beloved Davis Square liquor store to sell business after 37 years #SomervilleMA #DavisSquare
https://www.masslive.com/business/2023/08/owner-of-beloved-davis-square-liquor-store-to-sell-business-after-37-years.html

Casual chess in Medford Square every Saturday. Usually 1–3pm, but during the summer it's 10am–noon.
Medford Chess Club
https://www.medfordchessclub.com
#MedfordMA #SomervilleMA #BostonMA #CambridgeMA #chess #chessclub

Somerville is losing its vinyl Grooves to Melrose, and the owner cites decrease in sellers, not buyers - Cambridge Day #SomervilleMA #vinyl #MelroseMA #RecordStores
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/08/13/somerville-is-losing-its-vinyl-grooves-to-melrose-and-the-owner-cites-decrease-in-sellers-not-buyers/

Here in #SomervilleMA the city government "supports the arts" by kicking out the artists and leaving their space in limbo. Good job, Somerville government! I had hoped the new mayor might help fix this fiasco, but that seems low on the list of priorities. #SomervilleArmory #SomervileArts
Arts at the Armory leadership issues open letter, circulates petition and prepares for August 15 community meeting
https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/126471

We love seeing green spaces improved and expanded! If you're in the #SomervilleMA area and have a spare hour next week, stop in and check out these plans for Junction Park along the #GLX!

RT @SomervilleCity@twitter.com

Exciting news! The construction phase of the Somerville Junction Park project is gearing up to begin within the next month. Attend the virtual construction kick-off meeting on Mon., August 14, and a groundbreaking ceremony on Weds., August 16. Learn more: https://voice.somervillema.gov/somerville-junction

If you're in #SomervilleMA and haven't ridden the Community Path or the new Community Path Extension, some folks are organizing a group ride to tonight's annual Boston Bike Party starting from Highland Ave. & Grove St. at 6 PM. Not a CCL event, but we love a family-friendly trip down this healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around!

(📸: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzyhx7jiJr0)

It has been a month since the formal ribbon-cutting on the #SomervilleMA Community Path extension (and even longer since people started walking and riding on it)! Folks in the area, have you been enjoying this new way to get across Somerville alongside the #GLX?

From city of #SomervilleMA on Twitter:

> TEMPORARY COMMUNITY PATH CLOSURE: On Thursday, July 27, from approximately 10am to 2pm the Community Path will be closed to all traffic from Willow Ave. to Cedar St. for an emergency tree removal.

@universalhub

https://twitter.com/somervillecity/status/1684557863929229312?s=46&t=pWzn0b1GCkYNvjkOITQ9zQ

The City Council of #SomervilleMA has a special virtual meeting tonight for the sole purpose of Whinter Hill School funding requests. $5,819,805 in total on the agenda from a variety of sources, though $2,500,00 appears to be cancelling a bond intended for covid emergency HVAC and authorising in its place bond for the same for Edgerly and Winter Hill, with the other $2,319,805 from stabilisation funds and unused bonds

https://somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1113030

While I wait for the power grid to come back on in my neighborhood in one of the country’s most densely populated cities I’m reminded of the importance of #SolarPower as #ClimateChange raises temperatures and we use more electricity by putting an air conditioner in every room

#somerville #somervillema

Legislative Matters tonight to discuss changes to the condominium conversion ordinance. The item (with the changes) https://somervillema.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6269042&GUID=04AD3348-09FF-4243-9916-C77F83B736D6&Options=

* Per court, the city does not have a right to purchase
* Adds an alternate member to the condo review board
* Other changes reflect learned experience, clarify language, make the implicit explicit, and maybe close a loophole or 2.

#SomervilleMA #SomerPoli

Starting to get back into #SomervilleMA municipal meetings with notes for tonight's Public Health and Public Safety Committee meeting, summaries from my notes are spoilered in thread

https://somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1108904&GUID=BD826489-A310-4D4F-A545-65AF9B64CEFE

Hey #SomervilleMA - please gimme your best low-stress route from the Community Path/ Davis Square to Assembly Row

Finally got yelled at by a driver while I was on my bike while obeying all the rules of the road!

I was trying to turn left (intersection without lights) and an older white woman yelled at me to "stay in my lane." Man, fuck these people.

#cambridgema #somervillema #biking #bikegripes

Motorcycles are everywhere

At #HomeDepot in #somervillema

Eastbound Broadway is marked for the bus lane but not painted yet; guessing that’ll happen pretty soon. #SomervilleMa

now watching the new #ghostbusters and it cracks me up a bit that it's set in a town spelled like mine when people get it wrong : Summerville #somervillema #somerville

It’s paint night in #Somerville - Ball Square is getting fresh green paint in bike lane conflict zones, and East Somerville is getting bus lanes! #SomervilleMA

(I would’ve snapped a picture but I was travelling by car in a rare change of pace)

now watching the new #ghostbusters and it cracks me up a bit that it's set in a town spelled like mine when people get it wrong : Summerville #somervillema

There's this fancy wine bar in #cambridgema that I already didn't like because they don't allow cellphone use and they charge an extra $6 per person as a placesetting fee. Today they have officially become cringe by posting "missed connection" posters dedicated to the new jewish tavern in #somervillema all over telephone poles 😬😬😬