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By adamg - 8/5/17 - 8:49 pm
Epic sky over Somerville

Greg Hum scanned the skies above Union Square in Somerville around 7:30 p.m.

By adamg - 5/30/17 - 11:51 pm
Woman with baby rabbit in Allston

Kat Kirpatrick holds a baby rabbit outside the Union Square fire station today, reports she put it back down.

Sean Olson, a firefighter at the station, reports: Read more.

By adamg - 9/24/16 - 5:11 pm
Fluffernutter dancers in Somerville

RoadTrip New England watched the Flufferettes dance their fluff off at the annual Fluff festival in Somerville's Union Square today. The festival, of course, honors the homegrown marshamallowy stuff.

By adamg - 8/14/16 - 12:34 pm
Playing with fire at Ignite in Union Square, Somerville

Myron Freeman took in the annual Ignite festival in Union Square last night.

Copyright Myron Freeman. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 5/15/16 - 8:05 am
Small tall ship powered by the sun

Tamas K-L took in the Tiny Tall Ships festival in Union Square in Somerville yesterday.

More tiny tall ships.

By adamg - 1/29/16 - 10:37 am
Gabriel Castillo Perez

Wanted: Gabriel Castillo Perez

UPDATE: Captured in Everett.

Somerville Police are asking residents to be on the lookout for a person walking around the Union Square area with handcuffs on: Read more.

By adamg - 12/27/15 - 2:36 pm
Ceiling shark

Brad Kelly looked up inside the Reliable Market in Union Square, Somerville.

Copyright Brad Kelly. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 8/16/15 - 12:21 pm
Fire twirler in Somerville's Union Square

Greg Cook took in the Ignite festival in Union Square last night.

By adamg - 8/7/15 - 1:34 pm

Greg Cook, who in year's past has organized the Saddest Parade on Earth, is working with the Somerville Arts Council on a pity party in Union Square next month:

We’re looking for bands to play 20 minutes sets of sad songs (classic covers as well as depressing originals). We’ll provide a “back line” (amps, mics, etc.), but musicians have to bring their own drums and other instruments. We’re seeking facepainters to paint tears and other sad stuff on visitors’ faces. We’re seeking artists, writers and performers to offer sad visuals, readings and so on. We’re looking more for funny sad than sad sad, but surprise us with your best melancholia.

By adamg - 7/19/15 - 9:53 am
Flame-broiled Fluff cone

Brad Kelly shows us the blow-torch technique that Gracie's Ice Cream in Union Square, Somerville, uses to prepare their Fluff-coated sugar cones. "Tasty," he reports.

Copyright Brad Kelly. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 5/4/15 - 7:02 am
Blooming cherry trees in Somerville

Ocschwar enjoyed some flowering trees in Conway Park in Somerville the other day.

By SCATV Somerville - 3/26/15 - 6:31 pm

Protesters Decry Union Square Process - SNN #36 - 3/24/2015

Somerville, MA, Mar. 25, 2015 – On March 11, some 50 residents, business owners and others marched and protested in Union Square to protest the ongoing planning process for Union Square redevelopment.

“Whose Somerville? Our Somerville! Whose Square? Our Square!” the marchers chanted as they carried signs and banners with slogans like “Development without displacement” and “Community Benefits Agreement ≠ City Benefits Agreement.”

By SCATV Somerville - 3/26/15 - 6:19 pm

Newscast: Somerville Neighborhood News #36 - Mar. 24, 2015

Somerville, MA, Mar. 25, 2015 – A number of community groups, non-profits, business owners and residents are not happy with the ongoing planning process for the redevelopment of Union Square.

About 12 acres, located on seven blocks of real estate, are slated to be redeveloped by a master developer, chosen by the City last year. Union Square Station Associates, or US2, is a consortium of firms – led by Chicago’s Magellan Development Group LLC and Boston’s Mesirow Financial Holdings Inc. – that formed specifically to undertake the billion-dollar development.

By SCATV Somerville - 2/26/15 - 7:45 pm

Union Square Meetings Update - SNN #34 - 2/24/15

Somerville, MA, Feb. 24, 2015 – Despite the freezing temperatures and mountains of snow, since early January residents have been trudging to meetings about the future of Union Square in the old Post Office.

The gatherings are hosted by City officials and by representatives of US2 (Union Square Station Associates), the master developer for the 12 acres on seven blocks of property in and around the square that are slated to be redeveloped.

By adamg - 2/2/15 - 12:14 pm
Cab fire in Union Square

Hannah Richman watched a Cambridge cab burn around noon on Somerville Avenue in Union Square in Somerville.

By adamg - 1/3/15 - 8:44 pm
Space saver on Bowdoin Street in Somerville

With a whole inch of snow on the ground, people who have to journey out are taking no chances. Brian McFadden shows us how a resident of Bowdoin Street in Somerville's Union Square is making damn sure nobody gets that parking space that he spent several painful hours absolutely no time at all shoveling out.

By adamg - 12/22/14 - 1:08 pm

Seems somebody managed to drive into a Dunkin' Donuts in Union Square in Somerville at lunchtime, but didn't get very far inside. Stanley Forman shows the aftermath, reports two people were injured.

By adamg - 12/9/14 - 8:00 pm
Man being rescued from flood waters in Somerville

Peter Morgan reports a Somerville police officer and a bystander teamed up to rescue a man trapped by rising flood waters in the Medford Street underpass in Union Square tonight.

At the time they helped him out of the car, water was up to his chest, with him sitting in driver's seat.

Not long after, Alexandra Sear photographed the man's car:

By adamg - 11/28/14 - 10:41 am

Aram Boghosian photographed the SUV that plowed into the Brass Union in Union Square shortly before 11 p.m. on Thursday.

H/t Ron Newman.

By adamg - 10/2/14 - 10:10 pm

Vanyaland reports the Live Nation/Paradise/House of Blues/Brighton Music Hall guy is buying the old post office in Union Square, although he's yet to say exactly what he'll be doing with it.

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