Who has the 18th off?

[liveintheville]

C doesn't have school for St. Patty's Evacution Day. Guess Somerville believes in giving even kids a drinking holiday  :beer:

[vtdiamond]

What? I've never heard of this before. I def. don't have that as a holiday!

[liveintheville]

Mar 5, 2013 15:41:59 GMT -5 vtdiamond said:

What? I've never heard of this before. I def. don't have that as a holiday!

Oh yes. Not every city does it. But all Somerville city workers have off and the schools are closed. 
I love the made up holidays like Evacuation Day and Patriots Day.

[vtdiamond]

Mar 5, 2013 15:47:58 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

Mar 5, 2013 15:41:59 GMT -5 vtdiamond said:

What? I've never heard of this before. I def. don't have that as a holiday!

Oh yes. Not every city does it. But all Somerville city workers have off and the schools are closed. 
I love the made up holidays like Evacuation Day and Patriots Day.

Hahaha, thats nutty.  Today in Vermont is actually Town Meeting day, I'd never heard of it until I lived up there. 
Gotta love quirky New England!!

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Don't forget Bunker Hill day! I never heard of any of these until I moved to the Boston area. It's certainly not something we celebrated in western MA. We didn't even get Patriots day.
I love that Boston made up a holiday to get the day after St. Patty's off. heh.

[hellzkitten]

It's a Boston holiday, typically... I think city workers get it off. I don't have it off.

[LoveTrains]

Yeah I don't have that off. But I do have Victory Day off (Victory over Japan day, its in August).

[MixedBerryJam]

Is Somerville Suffolk County? I thought this was a Suffolk County thing, as opposed to a City of Boston thing.

ETA: Hmmm, it's Middlesex, so there goes my theory right out the window.

[rikki]

I had it off at the Boston school I worked for, but not the Lawrence school.

[liveintheville]

Mar 6, 2013 6:46:52 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Is Somerville Suffolk County? I thought this was a Suffolk County thing, as opposed to a City of Boston thing.

ETA: Hmmm, it's Middlesex, so there goes my theory right out the window.

Yeah, we're Middlesex. But so is Cambridge and I don't think their schools are closed.

[fuddyduddy]

I have an exam on the 18th, which is the day we return from spring break. My school is cruel.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

I think Somerville follows the Boston Public School calendar, and Cambridge does its own thing that sometimes lines up with Boston.