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On my previous post, commenters indicated they want large amounts of parking, including student parking, for the new high school.

With underground parking costing up to $150,000 per parking space and aboveground garage structures also sometimes topping $100,000 per parking space, how many student parking spaces should the new Medford High School have?

The following local districts don't provide student parking: Arlington, Belmont, Brookline, Cambridge, Everett, Malden, Somerville, Watertown.

In pretty shocked to see proposals for multistory/underground parking garages at Medford High School. How many staff members work at the building? The numbers of parking spaces in the proposals seem huge.

Looking for recommendations on auto body work in South Medford to fix damage caused by a hit and run to our car. Has anyone worked with South Medford Auto Body or Hogan & Van Auto & Body? They seem like they have a strong reputation based on online reviews.

Hello! Looking to see if anyone can provide feedback on anyone who they used for a larger scale home addition? Any feedback or suggestion would be super helpful. Thanks!

Curious to see the inside of the Manor? Join us on Saturday for the Medford Citywide Cleanup! An inside tour of the Manor will be provided for all who attend. Register here: https://brooksestate.org/takeaction/volunteer/ Can't make it? Join our email list to be notified of future events.

I live on one of the streets being swept tomorrow (Monday 4/27). I am gone for work and have been almost a month, I didn’t know I’d be gone this long. My car is on the street. I don’t have anyone who could move it. Anyone know if they actually ticket/ tow? Or if calling the city to explain my situation would help?

I appreciate any advice or thoughts from anyone who’s experienced this predicament, thanks!

Edit:

Thanks everyone for the advice and even some offers to move my car! I can’t get my keys to anyone lol or I may have considered it. I called the city & the police department, and they said they couldn’t help.

I ended up hiring a tow company to get it moved myself. Lesson learned!

Private room for rent

Hey everyone! My current roommate and I are looking for one roommate to join us in a 3 bed / 1 bath apartment in Medford. The room is $1050/month + utilities, available June 1st, with a 1-year lease.

The apartment is the first floor of a two-family house with a big backyard, plenty of street parking, and in-unit laundry in the basement. We’re about a 10-minute walk to the Green Line at Tufts/Medford, and close to Davis Square, Somerville, Cambridge, and Tufts.

We’re both working professionals in our 20s and keep the place clean, chill, and respectful. Looking for someone around 21–30, ideally a working professional with a normal schedule, who’s clean, easy to live with, and good with communication. No couples.

Listing with pics + more details:

https://www.roomies.com/rooms/957134

DM me if you’re interested or have any questions!

Format: Hybrid

Time: 6:30 PM EDT

Location: Medford High School Library and Zoom

Agenda: here (including list of proposed space adjustments and cuts)

Zoom link: here

At this meeting, updated/revised designs will be presented for the six "finalist options" advanced last month. This will help the committee further evaluate the merits, costs, and disadvantages of each. This is all aimed at selecting a single option on June 10, which will then be forwarded to the MSBA at the end of that month.

For more on the process and what comes next, see MCHSBC Chair/Medford School Cmte Vice Chair Jenny Graham's write-up here and Medford School Cmte Member Jessica Parks' visual summary here.

One part of April 27th's evaluation is in adjusting or cutting the space allocated to different purposes from the plans. You can find the original proposed space summary here. 

Some of these cuts come from the education leadership team (ELT); some suggested ones previously came from the architects, SMMA; and some have come from committee members — namely, Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn and committee member Luke Preisner. 

What makes this meeting exceptional is the number and size of the proposed cuts. The ELT proposed a modest number (Category A: 33 items, totaling ca. 20k square feet and $30M in cuts), but committee members Preisner and Lungo-Koehn proposed over 200 items, totaling ca. $270M and nearly 200k square feet in cuts (Categories B and C).

The number and scope of these cuts are hard to explain succinctly. Some Medford parents who have been following closely have put together an Excel spreadsheet to help people navigate them. You can find it here (please download the file for maximum utility — Google Sheets lacks some features).

Please note that all of the proposed Category C changes impede the education plan. The education plan is a document assembled after extensive consultation and collaboration with students, parents, instructors, architects, and others, and it guides the design of the high school based on the needs of our students and instructors.

Whether you can attend the meeting or not, please send your comments on the designs and the process to mhsproject@medford.k12.ma.us. before Monday's meeting.

Sharing in case anyone around Medford is interested — small nonfiction book club meeting May 30 (Saturday), 10am–noon at Somerville Public Library (Central Library auditorium).

Book is Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz.

Relaxed group, and totally fine if you haven’t finished.

(Also: the library is just the venue, not sponsoring the event.)

Link to join in comments.

I swear I just heard a gunshot but also maybe it was just a big truck hitting a massive pothole? Idk, did anyone else hear it and can you help shed some light?

Medford should do this

Ok so ive been on this thread a few times in the past. It was mostly political arguments when the city council elections were going. Im saying this bc maybe some of you recognize my username and disagreed with me, which is fine its a free country. Im an independent and agree/disagree with certain things on the right and left. But i find myself agreeing more with conversative views. Not everything example being abortion among others. But I understand most people here dont align with me which is fine, but right now im not here to argue politics. Im here to discuss cost of living in our medford area and surrounding cities/ towns.

If u can get past political views, i want honest opinions from medford people on what i should do as a 25 year old, currently having no choice but to still live at home w my parents, but i also having a decent paying 65k a year job making 30 an hour. I work for a dpw but without saying where its not medford dpw but a close neighboring city. I turn 26 in december and dont want to still live at home when i currently do all my own laundry, dishes, trash, and everything else that are skills to live on your own, but cant. I went blue collar after highschool so never lived on my own for more than maybe 2 weeks. I also work lots of overtime so 65k sometimes turns in 75-maybe 80k or more, but still feels impossible. Want honest opinions from local residents. Whether home owners, apartment, renting, condo, anything

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