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SOMERVILLE WIRE: APRIL 26, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Fall Cleanup 2021! Photo courtesy of East Somerville Main Streets.

East Somerville Cleanup, Boynton Yards Concerts, and Diane Esmond Showing Articles SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS: VISIT ARTISTS AT HOME THIS WEEKEND The theme of this year’s event is SPACE SOMERVILLE EXTENDS EVICTION MORATORIUM ONCE MORE End date now June 30, 2022 OPINION: COMMUNITY GATHERS FOR FILM SCREENING AND PANEL ON SCHOOL POLICING ICYMI: DONATE TO THE […]

SOMERVILLE WIRE: APRIL 19, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Signs in Davis Square, Somerville, April 2022. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.

Yard waste, heating bills, summer jobs … and PorchFest! Articles EDITORIAL: NOW EVEN LESS NEWS IN SOMERVILLE DigBoston goes digital-only, yet another reason to donate to the Somerville Media Fund https://binjonline.com/2022/04/19/editorial-now-even-less-news-in-somerville/ ARTS AT THE ARMORY CONTINUES ITS JOURNEY WITH NEW CO-DIRECTOR Jess White promoted to chief operating officer https://binjonline.com/2022/04/19/arts-at-the-armory-continues-its-journey-with-new-co-director/   Shorts Yard Waste Pickup Begins […]

ARTS AT THE ARMORY CONTINUES ITS JOURNEY WITH NEW CO-DIRECTOR

Stephanie Scherpf and Jess White (right), co-directors of Center for Arts at the Armory. Courtesy photo.

Jess White promoted to chief operating officer (Somerville Wire) – The Somerville Armory is changing. The former militia headquarters at 191 Highland Ave. was owned since 2004 by Joseph and Nabil Sater, owners of the Middle East nightclub and restaurant in Cambridge, who invested in substantial renovations to create spaces for a variety of arts […]

EDITORIAL: NOW EVEN LESS NEWS IN SOMERVILLE

DigBoston box among the boxes of defunct newspapers in Union Square, Somerville. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.

DigBoston goes digital-only, yet another reason to donate to the Somerville Media Fund (Somerville Wire) – It’s rare that a journalist writes an editorial about an editorial, but careful readers may note that the principals of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism—Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and me—also run the commercial metro weekly newspaper DigBoston. A […]

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Somerville Media Center and BINJ join forces to create municipal foundation to support nonprofit community journalism There can be no democracy at any level without strong journalism produced in the public interest. Yet here in Somerville, as in communities across the nation, we are on the verge of losing our professional local news outlets. In […]

EDITORIAL: MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE

Prototype "Medville Transnal" front page. Collage by Jason Pramas.

Gannett merges its Somerville Journal and Medford Transcript newspapers as BINJ’s Somerville News Garden project and the Somerville Media Center launch a new municipal foundation to fund local journalism Nearly three years ago, after hosting a community forum on the crisis in local journalism attended by 115 residents of Somerville, including representatives of over a […]

SOMERVILLE WIRE: November 2, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

A Veterans Day ceremony, a staged reading of “The Birds,” and an event at the Somerville Museum Articles CURTATONE SPEAKS OUT ABOUT FORMATION OF PUBLIC BANK Mayoral candidates also weighed in on whether the Commonwealth should build this entity BUSINESS PROFILE: PEARL STREET TATTOO CLUB The new East Somerville space aims to be inclusive OPINION: […]