NEWS 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.