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The Somerville Commission for Women (SCW) and Doug Kress, Director of Health and Human Services, welcomed Lisa Brukilacchio, Director of the Somerville Community Health Agenda at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and Katherine Smith and Marisa Rafal, two summer interns, to present statistics from the 2017 Wellbeing of Somerville Report. The report is a recent publication that focuses on health across life stages and promotes a holistic look at wellbeing, including social determinants from prenatal stage onward.
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Eagle Feathers #158– The Highway
By Bob (Monty) Doherty
Since 1922, Route 28 has been the longest state numbered highway in Massachusetts. Beginning at the Orleans rotary on outer Cape Cod, it pushes its patchwork way north for 152 miles to the New Hampshire border at Salem. Route 28 meanders through six counties and, coincidently, 28 different towns. Today, as it traces its way over a half dozen former Colonial Turnpikes, it is called by many local names. In Somerville, it has been referred to as the Middlesex Fells Parkway, Route 28, the Northern Artery, and sometimes more affectionately as Monsignor McGrath Highway.
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jojo Lazar – “the burlesque poetess” – is a Somer-vaudevillian multimedia visual and performance artist. She plays ukulele and flute in the Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys band, and teaches uke, creative writing, and zine-making. You can find blackout poetry and more collages at @poetessS on social media.
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Today, Governor Baker joined members of the Legislature, local firefighters, retirees and leaders from the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts to sign into law H. 2515, An Act Relative to Disability Benefits, during a ceremony at Lynn’s Broadway Fire Station. The bill ensures that the Commonwealth’s firefighters receive the treatment and support that they need as they battle illnesses sustained in the performance of duty.
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Available to residences that receive City trash and recycling services
Each year, only 15 percent of all unwanted clothing in the United States is donated or recycled while approximately 14.3 million tons of clothing (or about 80 pounds per person) end up in landfills. To help divert more clothing out of the local waste stream, the City of Somerville will soon offer a program that makes it easier for residents to recycle unwanted clothes and accessories.
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A benefit for the Somerville Homeless Coalition
Redbones 17th annual Pig roast on Chester street in Davis square takes place Monday, July 30, 2018, from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Whole Hog with all the fixins, beer garden and live music. Fun for the whole family. Proceeds go to the Somerville homeless coalition.
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Our View of the Times – July 25
It’s going to be a long, hard summer in and around the city very soon. And a long, hard fall … winter … etc.
At least one full year of grief and aggravation is in store for drivers, cyclists, and even pedestrians as the Green Line Extension project rumbles into Somerville, hacking and hewing at the present day infrastructure to make way for the new.
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