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In case you missed the Somerville soccer stadium article by Eric Moskowitz in yesterday’s Globe, here’s a recap: The Kraft Group — which owns the New England Revolution soccer team (and the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium) — is once again focusing on the Inner Belt area as the location for a 20,000-seat soccer…
We have much cause for celebration these days: it’s almost May, spring is in the air, the Celtics are winning, the Red Sox are…playing, and this weekend, May 1 and 2, Somerville is holding its annual Open Studios, a great chance to connect with the local arts community. Between studio hopping, you can support a…
On Wednesday evening, April 28, the Somerville Chamber of Commerce hosted the Business Town Meeting at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, attracting scores of small business owners, local officials and developers to hear Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone speak about the economic future of the city. Generally, the mayor pushed the idea that all of…
The City of Somerville is participating in the Google Broadband Challenge this year. I managed to get hold of an email from the mayor with a link to the video the city submitted in support of the application. Fun viewing! ResiStat sent out a plea for support for the City’s application: HELP SOMERVILLE WIN THE…
Everybody knows Earth Day is April 22, but Earth Hour is this coming Saturday, March 27. The premise is simple: From 8:30 to 9:30pm, the City of Somerville will turn off all non-essential lighting. You can learn more in the Somerville Journal and Boston Globe. Last year, more than 4,000 cities in 87 countries participated….
In the seasons to come, will you know where your produce comes from? Boston Localvores, in partnership with Transition Somerville and Somerville Climate Action, wants to make sure you can. On Monday, Jan. 11 at 6pm at the Somerville Public Library (79 Highland Ave), they are bringing together farmers with community supported agriculture (CSA) drop-boxes…
This Thursday, December 3, Somerville Chamber of Commerce is holding their monthly Business After Hours event at Sagra. The event is open to all. The Chamber is asking that you bring a toy to donate to Toys for Local Children. Toys for Local Children is the volunteer non-profit that has provided toys & funding to…
A red banner stretched across the back page ad in this fall’s print edition reading: “How’s this for keeping local: Just say “SCOUT” at the time you buy with us in 2009, and you’ll get a $100 gift certificate to spend at Somerville businesses advertising in this issue of Somerville Scout.” I just want to…
Last week the Somerville Chamber of Commerce announced that Somerville Scout had won the 2009 Powderhouse Award for Small Business of the Year. We are thrilled and flattered. On Wednesday Nov. 4 the Chamber of Commerce will hold its 63rd Annual Dinner, at which Scout and the other Powderhouse Award winners will be honored. ———–…
In the cover story of the most recent Scout we reported that the only biotech company in town was Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation (260 Elm Street). Reader Frederic Yarm emailed to tell us: I can think of 2 companies doing biological sciences in Somerville and both in Davis Square. One is Plectix Biosystems and…
