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Dear Editor,

I am writing to express my enthusiastic support for the Somernova campus expansion. For over forty years, I have worked in Somerville supporting children, youth, and families in many different capacities.

This second round of funding allows nonprofits and municipalities to apply for matching grants from the statewide pool of opioid abatement funds

The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced $1.5 million in matching grants to 30 municipalities and community-based organizations in areas disproportionately impacted by the overdose crisis.

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Dear Neighbors, particularly those in Somerville,

This is from me as a person (yes, I’m not just a senator).  It’s about an issue in Somerville. 

Very few people in Somerville or in the affected area know about the Somernova development proposed on tiny residential streets near Market Basket. Yet many of us can vote Wednesday June 4 on a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA). 

If the CBA passes, the City Council is likely to approve this huge development.

That’s why I’ll be voting no.

Project aims to improve safety on one of the City’s most traveled streets 

Everyone should feel comfortable when using our streets. This is one of the principles guiding the City’s ongoing work to create safer, more accessible streets across Somerville. With this principle in mind, the City has started planning and exploring options for improving safety along Somerville Avenue between Elm Street and Bow Street.  

The Somerville community is invited to get their dancing shoes on as SomerStreets: Carnaval returns on Sunday, June 1, from 2 to 6 p.m. (rain date Sunday, June 8) to kick off the 2025 SomerStreets season, which will include a series of three neighborhood street festivals across Somerville.

For the past few years, the Boston Academy for Korean Traditional Arts (BAKTA), based in Somerville, has been teaching both adults and children traditional Korean music and dance. After each series of classes, the students and teachers present a public performance of these arts, and their next show will happen in June.