The City of Somerville is planning another action packed season of SomerStreets events across our fine municipality. They’re putting the call out to performers and craft vendors to join in the festivities. SomerStreets ends its season on Somerville Ave with activities from Union to Porter Squares on Sunday, October 28th. Until then there’s a SomerStreets happening each month starting in June.
Get the scoop for Craft Vendors.
Announcement
The Somerville State Legislative Delegation and Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone will host an upcoming public information meeting about the McCarthy Overpass repair project. The meeting will cover detailed information about construction plans and a discussion of traffic impacts. Following a brief presentation, there will be a discussion and Q&A session lead by MassDOT staff.
The meeting will take place Thursday, May 31st, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Argenziano School Cafetorium located at 290 Washington St., Somerville.
Greater Union Square’s own Templeman Automation has launched a new Playsurface multi-touch table Kickstarter.
Playsurface is an inexpensive projection touch table that allows multiple users to interact intuitively with displayed graphics and action without using a mouse, menu, or keypad. The Playsurface can simultaneously track and interpret over one hundred touch events across the entire display area and is scalable from monitor- sized to room-sized. Plus, multi-finger, multi-hand, and even multi-person gestures can be defined and explored to perform software-specific functions.
Kickstarter campaigns allow artists. inventors, and other creators to raise money to launch their efforts. The Templeman Automation campaign seeks to raise capital for electronics development and an initial production run.
Visit the Playsurface kicstarter project here.
Posted in Creative Economy, Design Annex, General
Announcement from the MassDOT:
On Tuesday, May 22, 2012, the Green Line Extension Project Team will hold a public meeting to review the latest design plans for Retaining Walls and Noise Walls along the corridor. As has been presented the construction of the Green Line will require the widening of the existing rail corridor which will include the construction of more than 25,000 linear feet of retaining walls and noise walls. This meeting will be the first in a series of meetings to provide general information on wall types, heights and where these wall types may be proposed along the corridor.
The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Hotel Somerville, 30 Washington Street, Somerville, MA from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm. If you need access or language accommodations to fully participate in this public meeting, please contact Karen Arpino-Shaffer at 617-426-9570 orkshaffer@gilbaneco.com at least one week before the event.
More information about the project is available on the Green Line Extension website at: www.mass.gov/
As always, if you have any questions on the Green Line Extension Project, you can email us at info@glxinfo.com.
Last autumn’s Bulb Blitz brought out lots of volunteer energy as teams planted the annuals in parks across the city.
The handiwork at Perry Park of the neighborhood team.
Over at Perry Park, the residents are making the care of the park a year round effort. Jennifer Kimball and other neighbors nearby have been caring for the green space. They’ve been weeding by hand on a regular basis, eliminating the need for toxic weed killers, and are bringing a sharp hand to the edging along the paths.
Sadly it’s not all sunshine, flowers and feel-good neighborliness at Perry Park. Dogs has been roaming off leash and harassing children to such an extent that many kids living nearby have been staying away. Even on leash there’s been at least one negative, frightening experience with dogs as a girl was bitten and is now undergoing the painful and multi-stage treatment in case of rabies. Alderman Maryann Heuston is planning to host a community meeting about how to respond and we’ll pass on details when those are available.
In the meantime, let’s all be good neighbors and encourage caretaking of the park for all.
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Tagged dogs, green space, jennifer Kimball, neighborhood, Perry Park
