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Loading ...Posted by Jonathan Rich at 5:16 pm on June 20, 2008
Just a heads up: the Somerville Garden Club is presenting a self guided garden tour “Urban Gardens Revealed,” TOMORROW June 21, from noon to five. Be aware that tickets ($12) have been selling out, indicating more interest than the Garden Club may have anticipated. As I write this they are still available at Pemberton and…
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Posted by Jonathan Rich at 10:52 am on May 15, 2008
You can’t walk down the street nowadays without someone measuring your carbon footprint. But Somerville residents (who don’t drive much anyway) may be thinking that there isn’t much they’ll be able to do about it, assuming they’ve already screwed in all those compact fluorescents.…
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Posted by Jonathan Rich at 1:18 pm on April 4, 2008
I’m frequently seeing the word “gentrification” employed to describe the demographic change taking place in Somerville since the late 1990s. We’re certainly seeing changes, but I question how much of it is gentrification.
When the term came into general use it described a revival of old and run-down neighborhoods by well-to-do…
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