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SOMERVILLE WIRE: MAY 17, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Somerville porch flower. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.

Can’t Eat at Jumbo’s & A Night In Bloom This Friday Articles COUNCIL WANTS COPS OFF CONSTRUCTION DETAILS Final decision on using civilian flaggers to be made by Mayor Ballantyne and City staff The City Council has approved a resolution in favor of civilians taking control over traffic details at construction sites.   SOMERVILLE ARTIST […]

SOMERVILLE ARTIST PAINTS MURAL IN JP

"A Message to the Future, 2021" by Julia Csekö, in collaboration with Eddie Maisonet. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Uhrhane.

New work by Julia Csekö opens Saturday, May 21 (Somerville Wire) – As part of a long-term plan to uplift and celebrate the Stonybrook community in Jamaica Plain, Somerville-based artist Julia Csekö has created a new mural on an exterior wall of the Extra Space Storage facility at 141 McBride St. in Jamaica Plain. Csekö’s […]

COUNCIL WANTS COPS OFF CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

Road closure for Broadway bridge demolition March 2019. MassDOT, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Final decision on using civilian flaggers to be made by Mayor Ballantyne and City staff (Somerville Wire) – The City Council has approved a resolution in favor of civilians taking control over traffic details at construction sites. “I have never really understood why traffic details are exclusively worked by police officers,” Ward 3 Councilor Ben […]