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By SCATV Somerville - 8/18/14 - 10:16 am

From SNN #21 - 8/12/14 - Somerville for Immigrant Kids

As in other cities that are home to immigrants, recently arrived child migrants have been arriving and will soon be going to school. How is the city preparing?

Learn more and attend a rally in this segment from Somerville Neighborhood News #21.

Visit our website: www.somervilleneighborhoodnews.org, for the complete news story and others segments.

By adamg - 8/15/14 - 7:47 pm
Old MBTA signs

Drive through the new Assembly Row project, past the giant Lego giraffe, the Winter Hill Yacht Club and the new Orange Line station and you wind up at a little cul de sac in a grassy area on the banks of the Mystic River that's a cool place to see the confluence of nature and the working parts of modern civilization.

Just beyond the Orange Line and commuter-rail tracks that run past the mall is a storage area full of old T stuff: Old railroad ties, bus shelters, railroad-crossing markers and signals, cables, even the trash receptacles they used to use before they went and bought all those round, heavy bomb-resistant ones.

By SCATV Somerville - 8/13/14 - 9:31 pm

Somerville Community Access Television is happy to announce a collaborative film screening event with the Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) and Arlington Community Media, Inc. (ACMI). During this event, there will be 6 student films screened. RSVP HERE!

Below is more information on the films that will be featured:

1. The Art of Being Hurt | 7:15 min | Director, Xavery Robin | Boston University
Synopsis: A young couple is fighting to make their relationship a healthy one despite the odds.

By SCATV Somerville - 8/13/14 - 5:41 pm

NEWSCAST: Somerville Neighborhood News #21 - Aug. 12, 2014

Latest Somerville Neighborhood Newscast

By adamg - 8/12/14 - 9:33 pm
At Ignite in Somerville

Myron Freeman took in the annual Ignite festival in Somerville over the weekend.

Copyright Myron Freeman. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 8/9/14 - 11:35 am

Teresa Gorman asks:

Looking for empty lot or park to practice biking in Cambridge or Somerville.Ideas?

By adamg - 8/8/14 - 10:58 am

Jordan Munson asks:

Any ideas on where a guy could get some dry ice in Camberville this evening?

By adamg - 8/6/14 - 3:27 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Somerville cupcakery has closed.

By SCATV Somerville - 8/3/14 - 8:14 pm

From SNN #20 - 7/29/14: Grounding McGrath Update

Somerville, MA, July 29, 2014 – While pleased the grounding of the McGrath highway is moving forward, residents and local elected officials who attended a recent meeting told Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) representatives that they want to make sure everyone is kept updated on planning and construction, and that the project is well-coordinated with other work going on around the city.

“As things change on McGrath, how will that effect Union Square, and the study that’s going on right now in Union Square?” Ward 2 Alderman Maryann Heuston asked at the July 17 meeting.

By SCATV Somerville - 8/3/14 - 8:01 pm

From SNN #20 - 7/29/14: New Home Helps Vets Get on Track

Somerville, MA, July 29 – “It was really hard to come back,” the veteran explained, quietly. “My whole family was telling me that I was someone different, someone that basically they didn’t recognize. You come back and you just try to live a normal life, and it’s not really possible to do that.”

Military veterans face terrible odds when they return from conflict. A recent study from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) noted that 53 percent of those polled say they have a mental health injury.

By SCATV Somerville - 7/31/14 - 10:29 am

From SNN #20 - 7/29/14: Rally For Peace, Against Israeli War

Somerville Neighborhood News is a production of Somerville Community Access Television, made by professional journalists, volunteers and staff. The half-hour news show has as its mission to provide a lively, informative newscast focusing on the events, issues and information impacting Somerville residents.

SNN RALLY VIDEO LINK

By adamg - 7/28/14 - 11:36 am

Eric Williams reports:

Multiple gas leaks shutting down Davis Square, businesses being evacuated one by one.

UPDATE: Williams reported at 11:48 that his Elm Street building was cleared for re-entry.

By adamg - 7/27/14 - 2:38 pm
Beasts

Dev reports Highland Avenue is shut today so that

THE BEASTS MAY ROAM!

Or it's the city's monthly SomerStreets festival.

By adamg - 7/23/14 - 8:37 pm
Missing Woody

Jerad Lewis found Woody just lying there in Union Square.

By adamg - 7/14/14 - 5:36 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports AvalonBay is just pleased as punch that it's charging less for an apartment at its new Assembly Row building than for a comparable unit in the Back Bay. Life is good.

By adamg - 7/9/14 - 7:21 am

Somerville Nieghborhood News interviews the Not Art guy, who lives in Somerville:

In the past, creating ‘not art’ was something he did for fun. But this year, after he lost two food service jobs in three months, he decided it was a sign that he should pursue art full-time. ... "I'm planning on staying here,” he said. "I'm not going to be moving to Brooklyn like everybody else."

By adamg - 7/5/14 - 10:48 am

This site has video of a Somerville cop who just walks back and forth in a crosswalk, signaling drivers who don't stop for him to a uniformed cop in a nearby cruiser, who then pulls the Massholes over and issues them citations. For some reason, the site thinks trying to keep drivers from plowing into pedestrians who have the right of way is wrong.

Via Matt Karolian.

By adamg - 7/3/14 - 10:47 pm
Lightning over Somerville

Boom! Lightning over Somerville. Photo by R.S.Y. Buchanan.

They started the Esplanade fireworks a bit early tonight - just in time for them to end and evacuate the area as a storm plowed across the area, knocking out power in at least part of Waltham and Cambridge and sending skittish dogs and children under beds.

Christopher reports:

Have to give Boston Pops organizers credit on timing. Made it from the esplanade lagoon to Kenmore JUST as the rain started.

By adamg - 6/24/14 - 7:59 am
Bees in their new home in Somerville

Hudson Street bees enter their new home.

When Peter Montague heard about the bee swarm on Hudson Street in Somerville yesterday, he knew just what to do.

Montague, a graduate of the North Bennet Street school who teaches residential construction at YouthBuild Just-A-Start, whipped out some wood and tools and built an impromptu beehive.

And as you can see from the photo, it worked.

By adamg - 6/23/14 - 11:24 am

Mel Barrett reports a dangerous situation on Hudson Street: A swarm of bees just swarming like nobody's business.

They surrounded our car. BE CAREFUL.

Last year:
Uphams Corner was buzzing.

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