Somerville News

They're heart-shaped, brightly colored, and headed to the Somerville mayor's mailbox on Feb.

Several readers raised an interesting point after last week's column about Target's not very warm response to a consumer's attempt to get some acknowledgment that dishes fading after just a year was a problem.

According to members of the Somerville Board of Aldermen, residents in Somerville, often elderly residents, have been receiving an official-looking document in the mail that's actually an ad for a type of insurance-insurance that covers water lines into people's homes.

"Intense" fire on Jaques Street displaces 10 people Somerville firefighters battled an intense blaze on Jaques Street Monday evening.

Feb. 10, 2012 SOMERVILLE, Mass. - If you know anything about boxing, you know the Somerville Boxing Club.

Somerville may see 2 to 4 inches of snow over the weekend, according to theA National Weather Service .

An accident on Interstate 93 near Assembly Square in Somerville caused authorities Friday afternoon to close down the high-speed lanes in both the northbound and southbound directions, according an alert sent by Massachusetts State Police.

Joseph Curtatone, mayor of Somerville, Mass., made a Super Bowl bet withA Brian Gallagher, mayor of Somerville, N.J. If the Patriots won Super Bowl XLVI, defeating the Giants, then Gallagher would have to wear a Patriots jersey to an official public meeting.

Find more information here . 2) E-waste recycling drive to benefit two Somerville organizations If you've got old cell phones, cameras, GPS units, laptops, keyboards, MP3 players, or even inkjet toners, you can drop them off today, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., at Eastern Bank's branch in Davis Square, 250 Elm St.

Representatives from the Somerville School Committee, the mayor's administration, and the Somerville Teachers Association are exploring the creation of an innovation school in the city.

It was only right that Boston paused last week to honor the January 27th passing of Kevin H. White.A Over nearly four centuries, Boston has had colorful mayors, charismatic mayors, able mayors and even a few truly visionary mayors.A But only rarely are all those qualities found in one leader - in Boston or anywhere else.A Kevin White had them all.

Somerville rolled out Zero Sort recycling citywide in October, and by the end of the year, recycling had increased by 40 percent across the city , according to Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone in his inaugural address.

Two homes sold in Somerville last week. Check out the photo gallery or view the same information in the easy-to-scan chart.

There are nine of them dispersed throughout Somerville. They look a little bit like Medieval religious icons-maybe from Ravenna, with their mosaics; maybe from an old Russian church, with their serene and stylized human figures; maybe from a small chapel in France, with their colorful glass, like small stained-glass windows.

The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Cummings School, 42 Prescott St. 2) Battle of the Mayors, round 3 Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone beat the mayor of Melrose two weeks ago , and he took down the mayor of Revere last week.

The architect the Lowell Housing Authority brought on to help it secure certificates of occupancy for 132 renovated units at the North Common Village does not believe sprinklers should be installed at the complex, LHA Executive Director Gary Wallace said last night.

The job for Veterans Services Director here in Somerville has had a couple of prospects say not interested.

Top honors in a Somerville recycling photo contest went to a creative group of Orchard Street youngsters, the city said today.

" I think poets and artists often take themselves too seriously. I mean everybody is important in some way.

Somerville planners last week moved a step closer to declaring the city's Porter Square area open for business.