"The Somerville News Weekly" ? What exactly is this?

[ron_newman]

So, The Somerville News became The Somerville Times last month ... but now there's apparently a new competing "Somerville News Weekly" which supposedly debuted a print edition last week? (They also have this Facebook page)

Has anyone actually seen a copy of this? I haven't found one anywhere around Davis Square. It appears that the two former co-owners of The Somerville News had some sort of split, with one of them getting the assets, archive, and continuity of the former paper, but the other one keeping rights to the paper's old name.

The "News Weekly" folks also have some strange idea, or perhaps delusion, that they are operating a 70-newspaper chain of local weeklies.

If any of you understand what's going on here, please comment.

Comments

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

I found a copy in my Somerville-based gym. It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen in print. Between the no-content articles, the spelling mistakes and add some of the weirdest white-space-filling techniques I've seen since the college student newspaper I was once involved with, I was not impressed.

[ron_newman]

On page 2 of this week's paper, publisher Billy Tauro lists places where we can pick up his paper, such as the Magoon Square Dunkin Donuts and the Clairton Hill bus stop.