🌱 Patch AM: Which Somerville Fluff Fest treat made the year’s weird-food list?

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In today's newsletter:

• Which Somerville Fluff Fest treat made the year’s weird-food list?
• Why Somerville’s Celeste is suddenly in the national food spotlight
• What Marc Levy’s exit means for Somerville’s local news coverage

Also on today's calendar: 5 Keys to Buying a Home and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the little needle say to the mother needle when it brought home a failing report card? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 39 and low of 11 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
• Friday: Turning cloudy and very cold, temps: high: 24, low: 18.
• Saturday: Cold; morning snow, up to 1", with a high of 25 and low of 15 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• The 10 weirdest things I ate this year so you didn't have to (masslive.com) — Somerville’s own Fluff Festival makes a cameo on this year’s list of the writer’s strangest taste-tests, thanks to a wasabi ice cream crowned with toasted Marshmallow Fluff. From bizarre Oreos to a chowder-inspired mimosa, the column runs through ten of 2025’s most outlandish food experiments, all sampled so readers don’t have to risk their own stomachs.
   

• Boston Listed as The Top Food Destination for 2026... Yes, Really (wror.com) — Somerville gets a shout-out in new national food buzz, with neighborhood favorite Celeste named one of the Northeast’s top Peruvian restaurants. That recognition comes as Condé Nast Traveler controversially crowns Boston the world’s top food destination for 2026, sparking plenty of online debate about whether the city’s dining scene really deserves the title.
   

• Founding editor Marc Levy has left Cambridge Day, the news outlet he launched in 2009 (dankennedy.net) — Somerville readers should know that Cambridge Day’s new leadership plans to scale back governmental coverage of Somerville to focus more tightly on Cambridge. The change comes as founding editor Marc Levy departs the outlet he relaunched in 2009, now owned by nonprofit Cambridge News Inc., raising questions about how regional local news, including Somerville coverage, will evolve.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Somerville

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★ Featured events ★

Tuesday January 6

• 5 Keys to Buying a Home
  Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library, 111 High St, Medford
  6:30 pm

Thursday January 8

• Dive In Commonwealth Virtual Information Session
  Virtual,
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Friday December 26

• Toddler Storytime at Central
  Somerville Public Library , 79 Highland Ave , Somerville
  10:30 am
• Storytime at West
  Somerville Public Library West Branch , 40 College Ave , Somerville
  11:00 am

Saturday December 27

• SESSION AMERICANA - Rescheduled Show
  The Burren , 247 Elm St , Somerville
  8:00 pm

Sunday December 28

• The Honey Steelers - Holiday Brunch!
  The Burren , 247 Elm St , Somerville
  11:30 am
• SESSION AMERICANA - Rescheduled show
  The Burren , 247 Elm St , Somerville
  7:00 pm

Tuesday December 30

• The Beantown Buckroos
  The Burren , 247 Elm St , Somerville
  7:00 pm

Wednesday December 31

• New Year's Eve - Candlelit Meditation
  Kadampa Meditation Center Boston , 2298 Massachusetts Ave , Cambridge
  5:00 pm

Tuesday January 6

• Honky Tonk Tuesday with the Talking Hearts
  The Burren , 247 Elm St , Somerville
  7:30 pm

Wednesday January 7

• The Calm Mind Toolkit - Wednesday 7pm meditation class
  Kadampa Meditation Center Boston , 2298 Massachusetts Ave , Cambridge
  7:00 pm
• Post-Holiday Blues with the Potluck Blues Band
  The Burren , 247 Elm St , Somerville
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

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🗞 Nearby News

Cambridge

• Walker & Dunlop Brokers $53.6M Sale and Financing of Cambridge Multifamily Property (bostonrealestatetimes.com)
• Lexington native, UK graduate won a 1976 Nobel Prize in chemistry (kentucky.com)
• Intrepid Makers: Judy Kensley McKie (finewoodworking.com)

Medford

• Medford Finds New Emergency Service Response Provider (patch.com)

Everett

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I guess I’m not as sharp as I thought.
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