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Somerville

3 easy digits for not-so-dire ire

311 connects DPW, residents

By Patrick Gerard Healy
Globe Correspondent / January 15, 2006

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Somerville has quietly become the first city in the Boston area to use 311, a system that allows residents to request and keep track of city services by phone. (Full article: 565 words)

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