Somerville Community Summit, follow-up

I attended the Somerville Community Summit back in February, where the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and the Somerville Media Center (and others) convened community members to pitch stories that would help end the news desert in Somerville. Today, I attended a follow-up event, where I pitched an environment-focused media channel to BINJ and SMC and got to add my two cents to five other proposals brought by other community organizations. Today, I also did my weekly shift as a herring monitor, counting fish coming up the ladder at the Mystic Lakes dam once again.

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