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SOMERVILLIANS DONATE $5,000 TO RESTART SOMERVILLE WIRE

Municipal news service can run for another few months, now accepting applications for a reporter gig Great news! Thanks to the 40 Somerville residents who donated the $5,000 we needed, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism has met our goal to restart publication of the Somerville Wire news service for another few months. This is […]

PARTS AND CRAFTS MOVES TO BOYNTON YARDS

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

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 kind of feel,” said Dina […]

SOMERVILLE ARTIST PAINTS MURAL IN JP

"A Message to the Future, 2021" by Julia Csekö, in collaboration with Eddie Maisonet. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Uhrhane.

New work by Julia Csekö opens Saturday, May 21 (Somerville Wire) – As part of a long-term plan to uplift and celebrate the Stonybrook community in Jamaica Plain, Somerville-based artist Julia Csekö has created a new mural on an exterior wall of the Extra Space Storage facility at 141 McBride St. in Jamaica Plain. Csekö’s […]