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The glittery crafts at The Shiny Shop can make bicyclists more visible or just brighten your day

by Eric Cao September 25, 2026

The Shiny Shop in Harvard Square has bedazzling and other cozy crafting events, “disco-inspired community art” that can improve the visibility and safety of cyclists and others.

OPINION

Close the gap between Cambridge and Belmont now, not with a five-year delay

by Michael Rogove September 25, 2026

The city can address tradeoffs and connect our communities via Outer Huron. Declaring a five-year delay at the very end of this deliberative process would be a mistake.

OPINION

Alexandria’s land swap should come with teacher and public safety homes, a bus stop and open space

September 21, 2026

There are ways to improve a proposal from Alexandria Real Estate and respond to important needs of the city East Cambridge and Kendall Square.

COMMUNITY

The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: A latte options

by Marc Levy September 19, 2026

The Independent’s seventh locally themed puzzle explores some of our local coffee shops. Much like in a crossword puzzle, many of them are in squares.

DEVELOPMENT

Massive Healthpeak plan and its bridge get the green light, with an MBTA ‘urban rail’ stop decision three years away

by Marc Levy September 16, 2026

A full commitment by the MBTA for a long-wanted pedestrian and bike bridge was only part of the excitement over a new 42-acre neighborhood in the Cambridge Highlands.

NEWS

Cambridge meetings, Sept. 14-21: A half-million dollars to make up for federal cuts to food aid (corrected)

by Marc Levy September 13, 2026

Take part in meetings on handling growing hunger, the Healthpeak neighborhood project and changes to the city's multifamily zoning ordinance.

NEWS

Somerville meetings, Sept. 14-21: Squires Bridge and an all-day Dunkin’

by Marc Levy September 13, 2026

Take part in meetings on the Squires Bridge replacement, school district finances and a Davis Square Neighborhood Council (and take the Davis Square plan survey).

NEWS

After Food Nation and Honk!, Davis Square project looks at funding from a parking improvement district (updated)

by Marc Levy September 9, 2026

The group working to revive Davis Square is feeling good about its first five months, preparing for a big end to its first season and already looking at what’s coming in 2027.

How Somerville got to zero bicyclist or pedestrian deaths for four years, and how to keep it going

September 7, 2026

While not having residents and visitors mowed down by motorists should be a baseline expectation, our success is in contrast with the towns around us with the same goal.

OPINION

A response for renters after 100 years of humiliation

by Nicholas Marchuk September 6, 2026

Yes, we need rent control. Not because it will work, but because it won’t. Economists predict it will crash property values. That’s not my problem.