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Somerville Community Access Television’s new Executive Director Brian Zipp chats about the current state of the media center and its future with host Joe Lynch.

New interactive, online portal makes raw data and data visualizations available

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 Farm to follow data trends in the city and use the data for your own analysis.

By Jim Clark

Police were dispatched to a Medford St. location last Friday evening on reports of a breaking and entering in progress.

According to police, the reporting parties told the dispatcher that they had heard a loud banging sound and could see a figure standing at the entrance to the building, the offices of Carroll & Sons Roofing.

By Joseph Curtatone

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“No doubt it ain’t easy, but we got teachings,” goes the chorus of Somerville High School’s 2016 class song. Boy, did you ever! Few classes exemplify the school motto “Honor and Progress” as well as the 270 young women and men who received their SHS diplomas this week.

By Rebecca Danvers

The Somerville Arts Council continues one of its most popular citywide events with Puppet Palooza! Events like this allow the community to participate, interact, and engage in non-traditional ways in untraditional venues while cultivating the idea of Somerville as a cultural arts incubator without walls.

~Photos by Claudia Ferro

Yesterday Mayor Joe Curtatone made a presentation to the Board of Aldermen on the proposed fiscal year 2017 budget. This page provides links to documents relevant to the proposed City of Somerville Budget now under review by the Board of Aldermen, as well as previous years’ budgets.

By Donald Norton, class of 1966

Class Day 2016 at Somerville High School was held this past Friday, and as is traditional, the school invited alumni of 50 years ago to join in and celebrate this, the class of 2016, maybe to show them what they will look like in 2066 when they will come back. Not to worry, we looked nothing like our parents back in 1966, and there were no walkers to help us get around.

Somerville residents were updated on the latest design plans for the West Branch Library last Wednesday, and many questioned some of the choices made by the planners involved. — Photo by Josie Grove

By Josie Grove

One should not judge a book by its cover, but Davis Square-area residents were quick to judge the proposed addition to the West Branch Library by its exterior and landscape. Many of the hundred-odd neighbors gathered in the Tufts Administration building last Wednesday were vehemently opposed to the addition to the library, and expressed skepticism about the value of new programs it would enable. Although the design was selected from four options based on input from community members, neighbors at the meeting were upset about the proposed addition and reworked grounds.

The $1B Everett Wynn Casino’s construction, originally set to begin in April of this year, is on hold until environmental impact issues are officially resolved.

By Jim Clark

The City of Somerville aggressively presented its case at a hearing in Boston last Thursday that the Department of Environmental Protection incorrectly gave its approval for the Wynn Boston Harbor project to go ahead with construction of its casino complex in Everett.