The Somerville News Blog

Horan: Santangelo violated city's e-mail policy

by Leora Freidman

The city’s superintendent of buildings and grounds, Frank Santangelo,  Feb. 11, 2004 used the city’s internal e-mail system to sell a vehicle, which was against both city policy and the ethics tone set done by Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, when he took office in the previous month.

The e-mail contains solely a brief description of the car and does not contain any references to City Hall business, and was sent through the city’s Outlook e-mail program, said Lucy A. Warsh, the mayor’s public information officer.

East Somerville Neighbors for Change seeks community building and empowerment

by Leora Fridman

Bringing people together across vastly different backgrounds is a difficult, but necessary endeavor for the health of any community. Meredith Levy, director of community organizing at the Somerville Community Corporation (SCC), armed with a few translators and a great deal of faith in personal empowerment, is fully behind the process of neighborhood building in East Somerville.

            As Director of Community Organizing and facilitator of the East Somerville Neighbors for Change (ESNC), Levy said she believes firmly in the power of discussion and common ground. Serving the values of SCC, the city’s only community development corporation, the project furthers social and economic improvement in the city’s neighborhoods, she said.