This past weekend we set our clocks back one hour as we do every year. Ideally when we get up in the morning it will be a little lighter, and, not so ideally, after we work we'll all be stumbling home in the dark. But why do we do this? Supposedly Benjmain Franklin first proposed…
Last Sunday marked the beginning of Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim year. If you’re a non-Muslim and don’t know anything about Ramadan, this brief article at Vox.com covers the essentials. Muslims believe Ramadan to be the month God revealed the first verses of the Quran to Mohammed. It’s a time of contemplation and…
A few weeks ago I posted about resources to help you determine the truth of what you see, hear or read in the media. Here are 3 more fact-checking resources to consider: Media Matters for America, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.
It’s official: Whitey Bulger has been found guilty – of a whole lot of stuff – and will presumably be spending the rest of his life behind bars. Many of us would like to forget all about the notorious thug but, human nature being what it is, a fair number of us want to know all…
Our thanks to the mayor for recognizing the essential and ever-changing role libraries play in the life of this city: http://www.thesomervillenews.com/archives/36202
Courtesy of storycorps.org It should come as no surprise to this city’s residents, but members of this diverse and vital community have a story to tell. And your library is going to help them tell it – thanks to a grant from the American Library Associaton and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which…
In a recent Somerville News column reflecting on the career of former Mayor Eugene Brune, Mayor Curtatone quoted a Boston Sunday Globe insert (below) from October 17, 1965 entitled, “The New Somerville–Colonial Birth, Space Age Rebirth,” extolling a “new Somerville” with state-of-the-art infrastructure and institutions emerging from one of the birthplaces of America. But as…
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Director of Libraries, Maria Carpenter, announced today that the City of Somerville has been approved by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) to be placed on a waiting list for an $18 million construction grant to partially fund a new public library in the heart of Union Square. Fourteen…
At the March 22, 2012 Board of Aldermen meeting Mayor Curtatone requested the following transfers from DPW Snow Account: $21,600 to replace the pipes and rugs in the Children’s Room in the West Branch. $36,086 to repair the elevator in the Central Library. $59,500 to repair/replace the East Branch Library roof and front entrance. All…
“Cup o’ Joe with Joe” is the City of Somerville’s employee recognition program to acknowledge the efforts made by those employees or departments who have gone above and beyond in their usual job responsibilities. This month’s winners are the Library’s own Jim and Thy! Congratulations guys, you earned it!
