The MBTA reports it's started running trolleys to and from Union Square again, but that service on the stubbier end of the Green Line Extension remains slow because of a signal issue near Lechmere.
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By adamg - 11/1/23 - 9:52 am
A California man with a long history of making bogus hostage calls to women police officers on two continents was sentenced last week for a series of calls to Tufts University police officers in 2021 that sparked an hours-long room-by-room search of several dormitories, by both officers and dogs, for a supposed woman being held hostage by an ex-special services specialist with a taser. Read more.
By adamg - 10/19/23 - 6:41 pm
WBZ reports that well over half the tracks on the Green Line Extension will have to be rebuilt - and that GM Phil Eng says previous management knew about the problem as early as 2021, but decided not to stop the already frequently delayed construction to fix the problem.
By Sasha Patkin - 10/10/23 - 9:41 pm
Photo by Sasha Patkin.
A ring had formed in Davis Square. In its center, a woman sang into a bullhorn while a row of trombones behind her seemed to lean into their music, taking steps forward as they played. They closed the gap with members of the surrounding crowd, who were also banging their heads, dancing to the music, and unconsciously marching closer to the musicians, until it became hard to tell who was who. Read more.
By adamg - 9/26/23 - 11:26 pm
The Globe reports on new wicked slooooow zones on the Green Line Extension, in particular in spots where the rails have gotten slightly closer to each other, an issue that left at least one expert with 40 years of experience scratching his head because rails in use generally widen in distance, not narrow.
By adamg - 9/22/23 - 2:46 pm
Organizers of the annual What the Fluff? celebration of Somerville's contribution to the culinary world have moved it from tomorrow, when we're expected to be inundated again, to Sunday - 3 to 7 p.m. in Union Square.
By adamg - 9/20/23 - 3:51 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today granted the state Department of Revenue authority to seize Opa Greek Yeeros, 378 Highland Ave. in Somerville for non-payment of nearly $1.6 million in back taxes, interest and penalties. Read more.
By adamg - 9/6/23 - 2:28 pm
Dan Kennedy gets the scoop: The Globe is planning to bolster its coverage of Boston suburbs in general, with two editors and four reporters - and with one of those editors and reporters assigned specifically to what the honchos call "Cambridge and Somerville - Camberville if you will." Or Cambridge Day turf.
By Sasha Patkin - 8/31/23 - 4:10 pm
Wyn and the White Light perform at Sofar Boston HQ. Photos by Sasha Patkin.
The last time I went to a concert it was too loud, tall people stood in front of me the whole time, and canned beers cost $15. While there's a time and place for every experience, and there can be something wonderful about being crammed in one place with thousands of fans and watching your favorite act through a giant LED stage display, sometimes you want a cozier, more intimate setting.
I've been meaning to check out a Sofar Sounds concert for years, but was never quite sure what to expect, which is entirely by design. Based on the premise of hosting secret concerts in unique venues, Sofar promises a serendipitous and intimate concert-going experience. Read more.
By adamg - 8/12/23 - 2:17 pm
Cambridge Day hops onto the story of American toads, which can eat 10,000 insects apiece in the summer and which, after shedding their skin, eat it.
By adamg - 8/3/23 - 5:14 pm
Four construction firms that teamed up to build the Green Line Extension say the company that designed key components of the new trolley line screwed up to the tune of more than $35 million in cost overruns, and they are demanding payment, in a suit filed today in Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.
By adamg - 8/3/23 - 12:12 am
Bacon, in Space Force hat, inside the Capitol, via government sentencing memorandum.
A federal judge in Washington, DC last week sentenced Noah Bacon, 30, to one year and one day in federal prison following his conviction for traipsing around the Capitol as part of Donald Trump's failed autogolpe. Read more.
By adamg - 7/13/23 - 10:18 am
The wiring fire on a train at Charles/MGH this morning wasn't the only, um, excitement on the Red Line this morning. Owen reported:
I’m in red line car car 01717. As the train came into Davis station the ceiling at the very rear of the platform started crumbling with debris falling across the platform and a large cloud of dust. It send me and a handful of others running in case of larger debris.
By adamg - 7/13/23 - 10:05 am
It turns out that people in Cambridge and Somerville drink Bud Light just like everybody else, only, unlike in certain redder parts of the country, they are refusing to boycott the beer-like liquid, Cambridge Day reports. In fact, the news site quotes a worker at one local liquor mart who, on hearing a customer muse enthusiastically about the boycott, told him to move along.
By adamg - 7/10/23 - 8:01 am
State Rep. Mike Connolly of Cambridge announced this morning he's resigning from the Boston branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, where some members were moving to kick him out for the temerity of working with, and sometimes even endorsing, some non-socialist Democratic elected officials. Read more.
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