Take part in these meetings on surveillance technologies, later serving hours and new eateries, McGrath Highway changes and more.
Somerville meetings, Feb. 17-23: Surveillance technologies and McGrath changes
Cambridge meetings, Feb. 17-24: Traffic infrastructure and school budgets
Take part in these meetings on Reid Overpass reconstruction, Mount Auburn Street changes, school district budgeting and more.
We have Tuesday office hours, and they launch in Davis Square
As part of its mission of community, The Independent plans weekly “office hours” at two convenient locations, and the hours start this week.
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Somerville Arts Council leader Jenkins is asked to leave by mayor
The longtime leader of the Somerville Arts Council said he is leaving at the request of new mayor Jake Wilson after nearly 25 years.
In a giant-cookie battle of Chip City vs. Crumbl, Harvard Square wins big, even a little too big
Two over-the-top chain cookie sellers came to Cambridge a couple of years ago to compete from neighboring squares. Which is for you?
Who won comedy last week: Caden Adrien and Iris Kessler
Caden Adrien channels Mitch Hedberg and Steven Wright. Iris Kessler, doing comedy for only three months, brought a great joke and needled her show’s judges.
Egg salad sandwiches at 7-Eleven
The company that owns 7-Eleven is trying to change its culinary reputation. It’s started that work with egg salad sandwiches.
Artificial intelligence is coming for us, clearly. Not in the smartest way.
Problems with the technologies lumped together as artificial intelligence are worsened by the lumping.
Black Lives Matter exhibit accepts the debate and stages it
“A critical reflection” runs through Black History Month with an Oxford-style debate toward the end on whether “The Black Lives Matter Movement was successful.”
Cambridge gets its first gunfire incident of the year, followed by an arrest
Two vehicles exchanged gunfire and drove off in opposite directions, witnesses told police in recounting a Cambridge gunfire incident.