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Cambridge meetings, June 15-22: Deciding businesses for Cambridge Street and North Mass. Ave.

by Marc Levy June 14, 2026

Take part in meetings on “active uses” along traffic corridors, surveys about school cultures and housing proposed for East Cambridge.

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Somerville meetings, June 15-22: Somerville Avenue bike lanes and crunch time for budgeting

by Marc Levy June 14, 2026

Take part in meetings on Somerville Avenue bike lanes, a financing miscellany and $376.8 million operating budget and school funding legal conflict.

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Somerville prepares to pave a green path along the Mystic connecting Ten Hills with neighbors

by Eric Cao June 12, 2026

The Shore Drive Greenway marks the coming of another connection of Somerville with neighboring communities – but with trees.

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Cambridge shouldn’t be too shocked city managers can change their minds, city manager says

by Marc Levy June 12, 2026

Among other things, city manager Yi-An Huang said, he underestimated but understands East Cambridge’s need to touch grass, not artificial turf.

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Gilman Square, left waiting for years, could be Somerville’s first social housing (and pop-ups in the meantime)

by Catalina Mena June 11, 2026

Somerville’s first social housing, affordable early childhood education, civic space and retail could happen at the Homans Site in three years.

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Brownsberger and Lander spar over audit, public records and campaign funds in state Senate race

by Christian Uva June 11, 2026

The incumbent says his reelection is for “the sake of this district”; the challenger decries a system and calls him “the architect of that broken status quo.”

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Cambridge decides to keep Ahern Field as grass, not turf for sports (updated)

by Marc Levy June 10, 2026

Money committed to lighting Ahern Fields for games can be used instead to support lighting at Danehy Park to expand playable hours there.

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A passerby saved the life of a drug user by stopping to use a free public health vending machine (corrected)

by Christian Uva June 10, 2026

Somerville’s public health vending machines dispense items more than 100 times weekly, from first aid kits to menstrual health products to lifesaving Narcan.

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Cocaine dealers to Cambridge and Somerville are arrested, police say

by Marc Levy June 9, 2026

Police found cocaine and illegal guns when they acted on search warrants in Cambridge and Braintree on June 4. Four people were arrested.

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Candidates in three races for state rep in Somerville reject ‘dark money’ donations

by Marc Levy June 8, 2026

An agreement to eschew “dark money” campaign funding is in place for three Somerville state representative races.