How to get around when the MBTA red line closes July 21-30 Alewife in Cambridge and Park Street in Boston for infrastructure upgrades.
Your routes during the red line shutdown July 21-30
Match Day at Bow, Global Grooves and more: Celebrating the World Cup in Somerville and Cambridge
World Cup festivities are still kicking in Somerville and Cambridge as the global soccer competition enters its final weeks.
Tuesday office hour in Davis Square (Diesel, 5:30-6:30 p.m.)
Bring story ideas, questions, concerns or complaints – or, even better, come with proposals about how you can become part of a team.
Cambridge’s bicentennial celebrations emphasized unity through diversity
Cambridge began to prepare for the 200th anniversary of the nation’s independence a full decade before the first event of the Bicentennial era.
A missive from the Church of the Cambridge Licensing Commission, ca. 1851
“The sin of this son of Cambridge was in willful disobedience of the command of God to not imbibe more than one alcoholic drink every 30 minutes.”
Ride along the Alewife Brook and Mystic River, a MassTrails 10 featured route
Experience wildlife and history along the 7-mile route, featured as one of the MassTrails 10 for 2026.
Green space is at risk in Camberville
A wonderful section of green space at the former Matignon high school has been enjoyed by the surrounding community for more than 50 years.
A four-day heat emergency begins Wednesday, and officials are warning it’ll feel like 110 degrees
An extreme heat warning called by the National Weather Service for Wednesday through Saturday has drawn declarations of heat emergencies in Cambridge and Somerville.
Lay down the weapons of rhetoric in housing conflict, pick up the tools of facts and data
The pace of housing development change requires officials to take the challenges brought on by multifamily zoning seriously, rising above Yimby and Nimby rhetoric.
Somerville’s budget (2026 edition): Wrapping up a season with symbolic resolutions and symbolic ‘no’ votes
After approving a horribly constrained $394 million budget, the council went on to dish out a bit over $12 million in “free cash.”