May 2026 - Cambridge | Somerville Independent

Somerville meetings, May 31-June 8: Ending waste outfall in public waters and razing the city’s ‘First Pizzeria’

by Marc Levy May 31, 2026

Take part in meetings on Combined Sewer Overflows, homes at the Florentine Gardens and a fix for temperature issues at the Edgerly school.

NEWS

Cambridge meetings, May 31-June 8: New homes, stopping the sewage and a gun buyback

by Marc Levy May 31, 2026

Take part in meetings on changes that can reshape Cambridge Street, 92 homes for Rindge Avenue and ending sewage outflow into public waters.

OPINION

The server took back my fries and threw them away

by Nicholas Marchuk May 31, 2026

It’s hard to open a restaurant, especially one with three all-day phases. But what kind of “dining concept” takes back an accidentally delivered side?

NEWS

After an explosion and shaking felt regionwide, some point to boom from a meteor

by Marc Levy May 30, 2026

Calls began flooding into 911 at around 2:20 p.m. about an explosion, with first responders also exchanging confused reports about the cause.

FILM

The banality is the evil in the atmospheric nightmare, ‘Backrooms’

by Curt Ege May 30, 2026

Director Kane Parsons' makes the mundane mysterious, the commonplace creepy and the humdrum horrifying.

NEWS

Whatever process was promised, Cambridge plans to sink a giant stormwater tank on Sherman Street

by Marc Levy May 29, 2026

Neighbors got an apology, but no sign that a 2.1 million-gallon tank wouldn't be installed. What goes above it may still be open to debate.

NEWS

Work at Somerville’s Foss Park began without warning to residents … or to the state (updated)

by Marc Levy May 29, 2026

A pile of asphalt and presence of heavy machinery at Foss Park alarmed Somervillians this week and led to a rebuke by state representative Mike Connolly.

NEWS

Somerville needs to brace for years of surging water and sewer bills

by Marc Levy May 29, 2026

The year of bills that starts July 1 could have been worse, but the causes of the rate increases coming up are largely out of city control.

MUSIC

Summer Festival Preview

by Michael Gutierrez May 29, 2026

Music festivals, from one-day local affairs to multiday out-of-towners, that are worth getting off the couch for.

EDUCATION

Six positions are filled in a round of hirings by Cambridge school district, including at CRLS and Fletcher Maynard

by Marc Levy May 28, 2026

Several hires were announced by Cambridge Public Schools, including making Allan Gately Gehant principal of CRLS, where he has been interim principal.