NEWS Deal offers a chance for Somerville to own instead of rent at its months-old Assembly Square fire station by Marc Levy April 10, 2026 With a sudden $7 million bond appropriation by the City Council, Somerville can go from renter to owner at its Assembly Square fire station.
NEWS March’s rain and snow helps Northeast leave significant drought, but it’s still important to conserve by Marc Levy April 10, 2026 The region has been downgraded to a mild drought from significant drought. Dry conditions have persisted since August and could worsen again.
NEWS The innovators of Kendall Square are going to war or escaping to Europe: A conversation by Marc Levy April 8, 2026 The average resident might be shocked at where things are headed in the gleaming towers of our innovation district.
NEWS Homeless shelter at church is approved by a judge, found to be part of a ‘broader religious project’ (updated) by Marc Levy April 7, 2026 Some neighbors worried about the effects on the area and property values from crime, drug use and noise from a 26-bed shelter near Davis Square.
NEWS No one likes the state’s first attempts at a Reid Overpass redesign by Ida Kao April 5, 2026 More than a dozen organizations have nearly identical conclusions about redesigns of a nearly 90-year-old Cambridgeport traffic overpass.
NEWS Somerville meetings, April 6-13: Police cameras and a new two-school campus by Marc Levy April 5, 2026 Take part in meetings on progress toward a new school, police body camera funding and bike lanes at the Elm-Beacon Connector project.
NEWS Cambridge meetings, April 6-13: Ellery Street projects put multifamily housing under a microscope by Marc Levy April 5, 2026 Two projects on one street are among those shaped by multifamily housing zoning the City Council passed last year, and the experts are watching.
EDUCATION Like and subscribe: Cambridge School Committee prepares to push publish on a newsletter (but endorses a podcast) by Marc Levy April 3, 2026 There’s caution about overwhelming Cambridge families who already get too much information about the goings-on in their school district.
EDUCATION Tufts has chosen its commencement speaker in venture capital health head Ken Frazier by Marc Levy April 2, 2026 Commencement at Tufts University is 9 a.m. May 17 on the academic quad of Tufts’ Medford-Somerville campus.
NEWS Azeem’s ads have exciting news for riders of the MBTA (in the 1940s) by Marc Levy April 1, 2026 Those ads about a giant expansion of the MBTA – the red line into Lexington, the green line to Woburn and so on – are accurate. In a way.