Looking for a small bank in Somerville

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Hello everyone,

I did some reading on the "shift your money" movement that the Somerville Local First organization is promoting, and I am ready to make the switch but not sure where to go!

Has anyone made the switch?  Where to?

Thank you very much,
Yihwa

Ball Square breakfast wars on today's Globe front page

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A hard-boiled rivalry: Cafe owners come to blows in Somerville square

Who here knows who sought an acquiantance of Adam Friedman?

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On Friday (4/23), someone posted to DSLJ an entry titled "Who here knows Adam Friedman?" regarding the op-ed of his about Ranked Choice Voting as published recently on Boston.com. I know Adam and alerted him to the post, but when he checked it out, it was gone. Ron tells me that the moderators did not remove it, so it must have been taken down by the author. It would be great if someone could connect me to the author of that post so I can put him or her in touch with Adam. Thanks for reading!

Survey on demand for a winter farmers' market

[ron_newman]

from an e-mail I just got:

On behalf of Mayor Curtatone, Shape Up Somerville is working with community partners and local farms to develop and launch a winter farmers’ market during the 2010-2011 season. We need your help to develop the best market possible!

The Shape Up Somerville Steering Committee winter market working group has developed a short survey to measure consumer demand for a Somerville winter market. Please take a few minutes to complete this short survey and help spread the word by sharing it with your networks.

Further tales of the Giobbe House

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Here's an interesting follow-up to my Giobbe house blog post of April 23 (http://lslapiko.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-tales-of-giobbe-house.html).

This weekend I had the bittersweet pleasure of hearing from A.C. Frabetti, whose grandparents were the Giobbes. With his permission I'm sharing his e-mail in full here, because I think it really brings home the importance of saving these historical houses. More than wood and stained glass, they are spaces that have provided the settings for life.

Laura,

Thank you for posting about the Giobbe house. My grandmother had the house until it was sold less than a decade ago, and it became the last remnant of my childhood memories. You would have loved how she had some of the rooms, full of old clocks, chinaware, etc. With her passing, her children decided to sell it (too many ghosts of sorrow there). The subsequent owner wanted to restore it but I think he ran into trouble. I guess it was then sold to a developer, who transformed it as it sits now.

There is a bigger loss here than you can imagine. My grandfather (Ciro Giobbe) was a general family doctor who had his office in that house. There is a large number of people in Somerville who knew him (he died before I was born, many years ago). Since it was an office, much of the public would have seen the interior, and recalled the windows etc. A shame! When Somerville loses all of its historical treasures, it will cease to be a beautiful place to live.

- A.C. Frabetti

Mr. Frabetti also sent some beautiful pictures of the interior of the house prior to the renovation which you can see at http://lslapiko.blogspot.com/2010/04/further-tales-of-giobbe-house.html.

And please sign the petition to prevent further development of the Giobbe house lot at http://www.petitiononline.com/giobbe/petition.html.

New Session of the Outdoor Fitness Challenge starts 5/3!!

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