As previously noted in the community, the four moderators of your community here (ron_newman, surrealestate, cos, and prunesnprisms) have agreed that the community will be moving to this location at the hosting tool Dreamwidth, beginning May 1.

You may create a free account with Dreamwidth here. You may also choose to continue with OpenID from LiveJournal, but as has been pointed out ( Read more... )

As previously noted in the community, the four moderators of your community here (ron_newman, surrealestate, cos, and prunesnprisms) have agreed that the current state of LiveJournal under its new hosting status and new terms of service are not one we would choose to continue discussion under.

Your community will be moving to this location at the hosting tool Dreamwidth, beginning May ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if you all have seen the new Live Journal terms of service, but in my mind, they seriously compromise the ability of this site to serve as a forum for our community: http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos-en.bmlRead more... )

The owners of the Gorin Building at 255 Elm Street have sued the owners of Found, a used-clothing consignment shop that closed at the end of JanuaryThe suit alleges that Found owes $21,981.42 in unpaid back rent, that they abandoned the property leaving it in "disarray", and that they broke their lease which obligates them to pay rent through the ( Read more... )

I can't believe nobody has posted about this yet! Our very own ron_newman was featured in an article about LiveJournal in Scout Somerville. (The author contacted me as well, but I wasn't able to get back to him in time. Which is fine. I think it's well and good that this was Ron's piece.)

( A picture of the print version, which used a different photo: )

Hello, davis_square community. I'm one of your four friendly moderators, posting here to tell you that I had emergency retinal eye surgery (vitrectomy) last Thursday, which involved replacing my left eye's vitreous fluid with a gas bubble ( Read more... )

Eater Boston writes about "More Falafel Coming to Somerville" - a story they picked up from here:

"A now-deleted post in the Davis Square Livejournal community recently showed an awning with the new business name on it, asking if folks knew more about the venture. According to an agenda from August, the Somerville Licensing Commission heard from ( Read more... )

Today I was sitting over at Assembly, reading my book "Ten Hills Farms" by CS Manegold, and a woman at the next table struck up conversation about it. She and her family have moved over to Ten Hills in the last year, and they really seemed to not be very connected with Somerville stuff. I talked about the Library's summer read (I'm also reading ( Read more... )

If your LiveJournal user interface and display suddenly changed today without warning, follow the instructions in these post comments to go back to what's now the "old version".

(sorry for off-topic post, but this probably affected everyone in this community)

If you have tried to join this community and received a rejection from one of the moderators, it probably happened because your LJ account is brand new, with no profile information, no friends, no posts, and no membership in any other groups. From our point of view, we unfortunately can't distinguish between your account and a comment-spam bot ( Read more... )