Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Lilly Testa, winner of Somerville's Reach for the Stars talent show, will sing.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The following is from "Greater Somerville": Tonight on Greater Somerville - More Holiday Music - Less Chatter. Lilly Testa, winner of Somerville's first ever "Reach for the Stars" talent show held in the fall, will sing tonight on this special holiday edition of "Greater Somerville, Testa, a native New Yorker, won the competition, besting dozens of other entrants. Joe Lynch and Kyann Anderson will host tonight's special and both have promised not to sing. The show will air live tonight on SCATV at 7:30 PM and be rerun during the holiday season. You can also watch the episode here or go togreatersomerville.wordpress.com later in the week. The award winning "Greater Somerville" airs every Tuesday at 7:30 only on Somervillle Community …
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Weissman talks about Somerville's Community Path and efforts to extend it into Cambridge.
Lynn Weissman, co-founder of Friends of the Community Path, was on SCATV's "Greater Somerville" this week to speak about the history of Somerville's Community Path, which is used by walkers and bicyclists, and about efforts to extend it. You can watch the episode here.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Blake Evitt brings parkour to Somerville on this week's "Greater Somerville."
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Parkour, a discipline where people move through urban landscapes with astonishing nimbleness, has come to Somerville. Blake Evitt, of PKGen Americas, was on SCATV's "Greater Somerville" this week to talk about the sport and how you can learn it. Watch here.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
A look at some recent coverage of what's become Somerville's most exciting local race in the 2012 election season.
For those of you following the race for state representative in the 26th Middlesex District, which encompasses East Somerville and East Cambridge, you might want to take a look at some recent media coverage. First, Rep. Tim Toomey was on SCATV's "Greater Somerville" and spoke with host Joe Lynch about the campaign, his challengers and the district. You can watch the episode here. Second, The Phoenix (in its new glossy-magazine form) ran a profile of Progressive Independent Mike Connolly, who's running against Toomey. Read it here. Finally, the Boston Herald, via the State House News Service, posted a story about the entertaining Oct. 16 debate, in which Toomey, Connolly and Republican candidate Thomas Vasconcelos sparred over a number of …
Monday, October 15, 2012
The "Ask Anything About Ballot Question 4" town hall meeting will be videotaped at SCATV Monday night. Be part of the studio audience.
SCATV is taping a special show Monday night about Somerville's Question 4, which asks voters whether or not Somerville should adopt the Community Preservation Act. Learn more about Question 4 here. The show will be in the form of a town hall meeting, according to an announcement from SCATV, and members of the public can join the studio audience. There will be five guest panelists, and members of the studio audience can ask questions. Here's who will be on the panel: Joe Lynch, host of "Greater Somerville," will moderate the show, and it will be rebroadcast on SCATV regularly until Nov. 6. If you want to to be part of the audience, be at SCATV, 90 Union Square, at 7:45 p.m.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
The Davis Square alderman spoke about issues involved in crafting the food truck ordinance, such as establishing a pilot program and CORI checks.
Somerville Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz, who chairs the Board of Aldermen's legislative matters committee that's currently drafting an ordinance to regulate food trucks in the city, spoke about the effort on the Sept. 18 episode of "Greater Somerville." The committee has been working on the ordinance for about seven months, and Gewirtz was relatively candid when talking about the direction the draft ordinance has taken. Many aldermen, for instance, want a pilot program for food trucks, but Gewirtz questioned that concept. "The Board of Aldermen is going to look at every [food truck] application, so what does a pilot program mean?" she asked on the show. "We crafted an ordinance which allows the Board of Aldermen to take into account every …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Somerville Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz and 'America's Test Kitchen's' Christine Liu will talk about the city's efforts to create a food truck ordinance.
Christine Liu, an editor at "America's Test Kitchen," will join Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz on SCATV's "Greater Somerville" Tuesday night. The two will discuss the debate about food trucks in Somerville. Here's an announcement about the episode from "Greater Somerville": Tonight at 7:30 on Somerville Community Access Television's award winning "Greater Somerville", join host KyAnn Anderson as she talks with Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz and America's Test Kitchen's Christine Liu about the creation of Somerville's Food Truck Ordinance, what the critics are saying, and how innovative cuisine could lead to stronger brick and mortar businesses in the long run. The Board of Alderman are scheduled to vote on this ordinance in the upcoming …
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Renee Polcaro of East Somerville Main Streets talks about the Foodie Crawl on Lower Broadway, taking place Sept. 18.
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
The following is from SCATV's "Greater Somerville." Note, you can also watch the interview with Renee Polcaro here: "This week on Greater Somerville, Renee Polcaro, Vice President of East Somerville Main Streets, chatted with hosts Joe Lynch and Kyann Anderson about the wildly popular Annual East Broadway Foodie Crawl. The organization, a non profit dedicated to the improvement of the business and residential neighborhoods of East Somerville, is once again producing the event scheduled to take place Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Watch the show here greatersomerville.wordpress.com and make sure you get your tickets early by visiting www.eastsomervillemainstreets.org."
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Hosts KyAnn Anderson and Joe Lynch discuss IKEA, Wal-Mart, the Somerville Progressive Charter School, Maxwell's Green and more.
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
SCATV's "Greater Somerville" this held mid-summer wrap-up of hot topics in Somerville. Here's information about the episode from "Greater Somerville": "On this week's 'Greater Somerville' with Joe Lynch and KyAnn Anderson, the co-hosts chatted up a wide range of relevant Somerville subjects from Lynch's rants about rats to architect Anderson's slam at the 'Maxwell's Green Monster,' to welcoming new Somerville businesses and lamenting those who have departed the city. IKEA, East Somerville Community School, new charter school, painting houses, local politics and Elizabeth Warren's snub of the show. All of this and more packed into the 28 minutes of air time. Watch it here and be sure to go to greatersomerville.wordpress.com for all your …
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
In a special episode of "Greater Somerville," Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone, host Joe Lynch and representatives of Maxwell's Green take a tour of the real estate development.
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Maxwell's Green is a large new residential development in the heart of Somerville, and the subject of a special episode of SCATV's "Greater Somerville" that aired this week. Here's what "Greater Somerville" says about the episode: "On this special episode of Greater Somerville, Mayor Joe Curtatone and host Joe Lynch join the developers of Somerville's newest transit oriented development, Maxwell's Green, for a tour. Adjacent to the future extension of the Community Path and the Green Line's Lowell St. T stop, this 5 acre site has been transformed into Somerville's newest residential community within our borders." You can watch the episode here.
Carol
4:11 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
I found it very interesting that you invited people to be part of the audience on the very day the show was to be taped. You did not give enough notice for anyone who wanted to attend. I only hope the voters of Somerville are smart enough to vote this question down. Vote NO! more ›