Deb Filcman's lawyer responds to Monsarrat lawsuit

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Besides me, the other named defendant in Jonathan Monsarrat's defamation lawsuit is Deb Filcman, a former editor of the Somerville Journal (also known online as Wicked Local Somerville).

I'm pleased to report that the Journal's parent newspaper chain, GateHouse Media, is standing behind Deb. Her lawyer (or at least, one of them) is Zachary C. Kleinsasser of the law firm Greenberg Traurig.

Mr. Kleinsasser just sent this letter to Monsarrat's lawyer Mark Ishman, demanding that Ishman dismiss the lawsuit against Deb by 5 pm on Thursday, May 30. If Ishman does not agree, Kleinsasser intends to seek sanctions against Ishman for filing a "transparently frivolous action".

Kleinsasser's letter also accuses Ishman of negotiating "in bad faith". He says that Ishman originally agreed to dismiss the complaint against Filcman if GateHouse provided evidence that Filcman had been a GateHouse employee during February and March 2010.

After GateHouse produced the requested records, Ishman then allgedly reneged on the agreement, demanding that GateHouse remove Filcman's two blog posts: Will I be arrested? Guess the wheel didn’t answer that one (February 4, 2010) and Not a question best answered by the wheel (March 8, 2010). Ishman is also demanding that GateHouse change the headline of another published article not written by Filcman: Somerville Police bust Question Wheel creator's underage drinking party (February 4, 2010). Kleinsasser says that GateHouse cannot agree to any of these demands.

Who do you like at HVMA Somerville (redux)?

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I'm restarting this thread, because when it was asked about a year ago, the clear recommendation was Dr. Hobbs.

Unfortunately, she's no longer accepting new patients and they aren't making exceptions.

Is there anyone else at Harvard Vanguard that folks would recommend? The doctor I'm seeing there now isn't worth seeing, so I need to change PCPs.

Redbones Annual Bike Party - Monday, June 3

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Next Monday from 5 to 9 pm, Redbones will close their block of Chester Street for the 17th Annual Bike Party.

$15 gets you food & beer (or non-alcoholic drink), bicycle valet parking, and a raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets are $2.00 each or three for $5.00. See the event web page for the list of raffle prizes. Proceeds go to MassBike and New England Mountain Bike Association.

The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band will provide musical entertainment.