Business & Tech

Five Things: Quick, Easy Internet Exposure for Somerville Businesses

Also, a Davis Square design firm tackles a Boston homeless shelter, and some interesting comments from readers.

1) Morning jolt of Internet exposure for Somerville businesses
When you —it's free and quick—you can update information, add photos and videos, monitor reviews and more. When people search for your business on the Internet, they often click on your Somerville Patch listing page; claiming it helps you keep things up-to-date and track what Internet eyeballs are seeing.

Claiming a listing is easy. .

2) Arrowstreet renovates women's shelter
, an architecture and design firm based in Davis Square, recently completed a renovation of The Women's Lunch Place in Boston's Back Bay, a day shelter for homeless women, according to an email from Arrowstreet. The design includes a new cafeteria space and kitchen, the email says. Check out the photos to the right.

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3) Aldermen meeting
The Board of Aldermen meet tonight at 7 p.m. at .

4) An interesting comment
In response to an , a few readers got into an interesting discussion about publicizing elections in Somerville. John K. Atsalis wrote, "[T]here was a dearth of information regarding this primary … I realize the City has few Republicans, but it does have at least 17,000 unenrolled voters who could vote in the GOP primary. They ought to have a standardized approach to publicizing elections."

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Do you think the city does enough to announce elections? Should the city do more, or should voters pay more attention? .

5) Weather
Partly sunny, with temperatures in the mid 60s, but breezy.

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