Who owns the Edison Electric building on Willow?

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It's the giant brick building next to the Cedar Street Bike Path on Willow. It's shuttered and presumably unused, but I can't find any record of current property ownership online.

Presumably NSTAR? Is Edison Electric still around? Would love help tracking down details.

Green Line Extension Community Meeting

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Per community request, I am posting the meeting notice for the next Green Line Extension public forum. As always, feel free to contact me directly at my work address, alinehan@mapc.org, if you have any questions about the event:

The third in a series of meetings about extending the Green Line to Mystic Valley Parkway will take place on Tuesday, May 17 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Cabot Auditorium at 160 Packard Ave. in Medford.

The meeting is part of a visioning process, funded by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), examining the effects of a potential Mystic Valley Parkway station on the planned Green Line Extension to Somerville and Medford.

The meeting will be hosted by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), which is the regional planning agency for Metropolitan Boston. MAPC is leading the community visioning process which seeks to examine how a potential future station at Mystic Valley Parkway could foster transit-oriented development in the area and minimize negative impacts for surrounding communities. 

The first public outreach meeting, held on Feb. 16 in Medford, introduced the visioning process to the public, described the scope and timeline for the process, and included an hour-long small group dialogue to capture the key concerns and ideas of those who attended. The second meeting, building upon the key issues heard in the first meeting, focused on providing information and answering questions on the topics of traffic and parking, air quality, land acquisition, and managing neighborhood change.

This third public meeting is focused on engaging residents in a discussion about community assets and opportunities around a potential station at Mystic Valley Parkway. MAPC staff will be providing background information on transit-oriented development and asking residents to participate in a preference survey which will help guide recommendations for future development around the potential station. This is the third of five planned public meetings as part of the yearlong visioning process.

Additional public meetings will be scheduled throughout this year, with the goal of gathering community input on the benefits and impacts of extending the Green Line to Mystic Valley Parkway. MAPC and MassDOT have included the Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration, based at UMass Boston, in this community visioning effort to help facilitate a strong public engagement process. For more information, visit www.mapc.org and http://greenlineextension.eot.state.ma.us.

May is Bike Month in Somerville

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Bike-related events are happening all month in Somerville, starting with the New England Bike Expo this weekend at the Armory:

• May 7-8  9 AM - 5 PM: New England Bike Expo at the Somerville Armory
• May 15  11AM - Mystic River Herring Run Bike Ride starts at Blessing of the Bay boat house on Shore Drive (I'll be co-leading this)
• May 16-20  8AM: Ride-ins daily to Somerville City Hall from 5 neighborhoods
• May 18  7:30 - 9AM: Somerville Bike Commuter Free Breakfast, Beacon St. Star Market parking lot
• May 20  BostonBikes Bike Commuter Convoys from Davis Square to Boston City Hall
(leave Davis at 7 am and 7:40 am)
• May 20  1PM: Join Mayor Curtatone on a bike ride around the City
• May 22  1:30PM: Somerville Historic Bike Ride - Meet at Somerville City Hall (I'll be co-leading this, too)
• Events happening throughout Massachusetts

Here's a poster.

freaking enormous yard sale in Medford, 5/7

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I wouldn't consider it worth Davis Square's notice for just any yard sale, but this one will involve stuff from about 15 families (to benefit the Gentle Dragon Preschool Co-op), so three miles doesn't seem so much of a schlep. Furniture, toys, kids' and adults' clothes and shoes, household items, tools - you name it, we'll probably have it.

400 High Street, Medford
9:00 to 1:00 - no early birds!
rain or shine