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New Parts and Crafts space in July 2022. Photo courtesy of Parts and Crafts.

PARTS AND CRAFTS MOVES TO BOYNTON YARDS

Kids’ makerspace gets cool new digs thanks to community benefits (Somerville Wire) – For children who want to explore hands-on, self-directed learning, Somerville’s Parts and Crafts is about to reopen in a spacious new location. “It’s got a cool industrial feel, whereas our old space had an aging convenience store

LINDA PINKOW August 23, 2022

HACKS, FACTS & CONTRACTS: FOIA FOLLOW-UP

Photo of Gov. Baker surveying Orange Line track work in 2019 by Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office Internal Emails Show How MBTA Sought To Market “Safe,” “Good” Trains As System Failed Starting today, the MBTA shut down the entire Orange Line for a month for massive maintenance and repair work. Riders

DAN ATKINSON August 19, 2022

Lost Somerville. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.

SOMERVILLE WIRE: August 16, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Race and Social Justice Talk, Hip Hop Festival and More! Article COMMUNITY LAND TRUST CELEBRATES ITS FIRST AFFORDABLE HOMES Ribbon cutting this Wednesday for five new condos in Union Square https://binj.news/2022/08/16/community-land-trust-celebrates-its-first-affordable-homes/ Shorts Talk About Race and Social Justice The City of Somerville’s Racial and Social Justice Department invites the

LINDA PINKOW August 16, 2022

Photo credit: Somerville Community Land Trust board and volunteers in front of 7 Summer Street. Photo courtesy of the Somerville Community Land Trust.

COMMUNITY LAND TRUST CELEBRATES ITS FIRST AFFORDABLE HOMES

Ribbon cutting this Wednesday for five new condos in Union Square (Somerville Wire) – Somerville is celebrating the first acquisition of permanently affordable homes on community-owned land this week. The five-unit condo building at 7 Summer St. in Union Square is the first development project of the Somerville Community Land

LINDA PINKOW August 16, 2022

SOMERVILLE WIRE: August 9, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Yart Sale, Crossing Guards Needed, and More! Article CITY HOLDS DESIGN WORKSHOP TO GET INPUT ON PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING SITE PLAN Participants use color-coded Lego pieces to suggest housing, stores, business and nonprofit offices, labs, medical/healthcare facilities, common areas, or green spaces for 90 Washington Shorts Shop the Streets at

LINDA PINKOW August 9, 2022

Somerville residents participate in 90 Washington design workshop. Photo by Molly Farrar.

CITY HOLDS DESIGN WORKSHOP TO GET INPUT ON PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING SITE PLAN

Participants use color-coded Lego pieces to suggest housing, stores, business and nonprofit offices, labs, medical/healthcare facilities, common areas, or green spaces for 90 Washington (Somerville Wire) – The City of Somerville went beyond Zoom listening and traditional public meetings last Thursday at a Lego design workshop organized to help understand

MOLLY FARRAR August 9, 2022

"Somerville, Mystic Avenue, Service Station" by MIT-Libraries is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

SOMERVILLE WIRE: August 2, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Free Meals for Youth, “Moving Wall” Veterans Memorial, and More! Articles TENANTS RALLY IN FRONT OF 6-8 MORTIMER PLACE Protest “tidal wave of gentrification sweeping the new Green Line Extension corridor” https://binj.news/2022/08/02/tenants-rally-in-front-of-6-8-mortimer-place/ CURB USAGE TO CHANGE Last chance to weigh in on proposed new rules; final report expected this summer

LINDA PINKOW August 2, 2022

CAAS Tenant Rally on July 29, 2022. Photo courtesy of Community Action Agency of Somerville.

TENANTS RALLY IN FRONT OF 6-8 MORTIMER PLACE

Protest “tidal wave of gentrification sweeping the new Green Line Extension corridor” (Somerville Wire) – Responding to soaring rents and increasing economic uncertainty, the Community Action Agency of Somerville organized a protest last Friday in support of three Brazilian families who are at imminent risk of displacement in September, after

LINDA PINKOW August 2, 2022

Photo courtesy of the City of Somerville, Mass.

CURB USAGE TO CHANGE

Last chance to weigh in on proposed new rules; final report expected this summer (Somerville Wire) – Since last summer, the City has been studying possible changes to its rules governing parking and other curb use. The study will be coming to an end soon, as the final report is

LINDA PINKOW August 2, 2022

"Pie" by Eric Ferdinand is licensed under CC-BY 2.0

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE: MAJOR FUNDERS NEED TO GIVE EQUALLY TO ALL NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLETS

Because the current practice of “every outlet for itself” is absolutely failing to rebuild local news in the US The original mandate of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism was to produce longform investigative reporting and syndicate it to independent community news outlets around Massachusetts that cannot afford to produce

JASON PRAMAS July 29, 2022