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Somerville Wire

The Somerville Wire—an initiative of the Somerville News Garden project of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism—is a web-based news service covering Somerville, Massachusetts. Its content is produced by professional journalists, area residents trained as journalists at SNG’s Neighborhood Media School, and Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and DigBoston interns. All articles published on the Wire are available for republishing by independent community news outlets for free—and by larger commercial news outlets and chains for a fee. Interested news organizations can contact us at somervillewire@binjonline.org

The public at large has free access to all Wire articles here at somervillewire.news. Somerville Wire articles are also syndicated by BINJ’s MassWire state news service at masswire.news.

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THE MOVEMENT

THE MOVEMENT

I went to several SLAMS while writing this article, each time trying to find the right words to describe an ...
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LIVING ON SCRAPS

LIVING ON SCRAPS

Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty ...
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MORE POTENT THAN RODENTS

MORE POTENT THAN RODENTS

Poisons meant for pests are killing animals and impacting humans in Mass ...
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STILL STANDING

STILL STANDING

Photo by Brynne Quinlan The enduring stories of the statues that inhabit Davis Square I’ve been hung up on these ...
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UNWILLING CONVERTS

UNWILLING CONVERTS

Somerville's largest condo grab in history yields relative tenant win in tense market Greg Santos moved into Somerville’s Millbrook Lofts ...
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KEEP CALM AND LADIESCON

KEEP CALM AND LADIESCON

Women of Comicazi return with second Somerville summit About five or six years ago, four friends came together for a ...
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#CONDEMBTA (THE RECAP)

#CONDEMBTA (THE RECAP)

A public conversation about transit infrastructure As regular Dig readers couldn’t have possibly missed, along with the Boston Institute for ...
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THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON

THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON

Dispatches from my daily dance with death en route to work I edge off the sidewalk. I look left and then right ...
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GETTING TO BIKE

  Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs June 21, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS ...
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VICIOUS CYCLE (DATA EDITION)

VICIOUS CYCLE (DATA EDITION)

Boston’s ugliest intersections for cyclists If you’ve visited the streets of Boston for all of five minutes, you know that each commute ...
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