Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and the Somerville Traffic and Parking Department remind all residents that regular street sweeping schedules will resume beginning Friday, April 1, and continue through Dec. 31.

Calling all wellness-related businesses to participate!

Mayor Curtatone invites you to participate in The Seventh Annual Mayor’s Wellness Challenge.

The Mayor’s Wellness Challenge  is designed to encourage community members of all ages to try out new wellness behaviors.   One of our goals during the Challenge is to connect Somerville residents to local activities and businesses that support wellness.

Updated: March 21

At that time, residents will have two hours to move their cars from municipal or school lots in order to allow DPW and public safety crews to safely and efficiently clear lots of snow and ice. Cars still parked in these lots at 1:30 p.m. may be ticketed and towed. Property owners are also reminded that you have six daylight hours from the end of snowfall to shovel sidewalks to a width of 36 inches.

Thank you, as always, for your patience and cooperation during this snow emergency. Happy Spring.

I interviewed the owners of the new Juliet Cafe on Washington Street in Union Square, Somerville. It replaces the much-beloved Sherman Cafe–more upscale as befitting the new ‘look” of Union Square. It seems like a friendly and inviting place.

By Gabe Pastel (gabepastelblog.wordpress.com)

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Somerville Neighborhood Newscast #60 – A Special GLX Edition

In this special edition of Somerville Neighborhood News, we examine the long and sometimes bumpy stops of the MBTA Green Line Extension. Learn more in SNN #60.

By Margaux Maxwell

Randy Winchester, of Aeronaut Labs.

Randy Winchester, 60, sits in Somerville’s Aeronaut Brewing Company drinking a cocoa sutra, a beer brewed with cocoa nibs and one of the brewery’s best sellers. Winchester, who has helped develop the ever-expanding 115 beer recipes that have come out of the “Aeronaut lab” says, “Craft beer is beer, but really good beer. It’s an exploration of all the different flavor possibilities instead of just brands.”

~Photos by Claudia Ferro

Somerville 7th and 8th graders competed in field and running events at the Brune Fieldhouse Track at Somerville High on Wednesday, March 9. The event was sponsored by the SHS Athletic Department and Somerville High School Track PAC.

Cirque Us! will be performing for the first time at a fundraiser show in support of their new tour that will kick off Summer 2016. The show will be held at Aircraft Aerial Arts in Somerville, MA on Saturday, March 19. The first ever performance from Cirque Us! will feature high-flying aerialists, wacky clowns, contortionists and tight wire-walkers. Proceeds will raise money for the Summer 2016 tour, which will hit many towns in the New England area.

By William C. Shelton

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The Republican establishment wrings its hands over the future of its Party while the Democratic establishment weeps crocodile tears, decrying the sorry state of America’s political culture. Neither is prepared to acknowledge that the Donald Trump phenomenon that they so loathe is the consequence of their own sins of commission and omission.