SomerStreets on Highland Avenue

[courtney o'keefe]

Celebrate summer with the City of Somerville at “Seize the Summer,” the July installment of the City’s seasonal SomerStreets festival, on Sunday, July 28th from noon to 4pm between Walnut and Cedar Streets on Highland Ave. Seize the Summer is the second of the 2013 SomerStreets celebrations, with the first event having drawn more than 3,000 attendees in June along East Broadway. For this unique street fair, where “roads are closed to cars and open to you,” programming includes: a family bike ride, health & fitness fair; live music; family-friendly activities; craft vendors; food and more.

Activities will include, but are not limited to:
• Bike decorating & family bike ride (leaves at 1 p.m. from City Hall)
• Mini golf
• Live music at two locations (The Center for Arts at the Armory and Highland Kitchen)
• CHA Health and Wellness Fair
• Craft Fair at the Armory
• Corn Hole Tournament (to register for the event go to: http://www.bostoncornhole.com/tournaments/seize-the-summer)
• Food
• Arts & crafts, games
• Painting, and much more!

In order to ensure public safety at the event, road closures and parking bans will be in effect.

• Highland Avenue (Walnut Street to Cedar Street)
Closed to all vehicular traffic 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; no parking 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

• City Hall Concourse and Central Library parking lots
No parking 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

MBTA buses will be rerouted from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Residents who live directly on Highland Avenue may call (857) 523-9017 in advance or on the day of the event and city volunteers will assist you in leaving/returning to your property safely during the event.

All SomerStreets events will run from noon to 4 p.m., rain or shine.

Comments

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

How wonderful to live in a town that is proud to have a double-elimination cornhole contest!!

Though I do wish the town would more enthusiastically embrace the delightfully acronymmed Somerville Community Access Television rather that pretending that TV is a single letter.

[samcoren.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the whole SCAT to SCATV was part of a not-that-long-ago station re-branding. Also other community access stations use "TV" in their acronyms - Brookline (BATV) and Cambridge (CCTV).

But in my heart it will always be SCAT.