The National Transportation Safety Board reports its initial analysis of a trolley-smashing crash at the East Somerville Green Line stop last month is that the driver of train in service came into the station way too fast, especially given that there was a stopped, out-of-service trolley sitting at the station. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 7:43pm
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By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 9:11am
The cities of Chelsea and Somerville today filed suit against what they call an unconstitutional federal policy to cut off all aid to cities where police refuse to participate in raids to round up immigrants regardless of whether they face criminal charges. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 11:53pm
Somerville firefighters responded to Bow Market off Somerville Avenue around 8 p.m. for a small fire in the market's restaurant area - which they managed to knock down in about 20 minutes.
By adamg - Sun, 02/09/2025 - 1:10pm
By adamg - Sun, 01/19/2025 - 4:47pm
Matt Keeter surveyed the egg shelves at the Somerville Whole Foods around 4 p.m.
By adamg - Sat, 12/28/2024 - 10:01am
Neal Gaffey asks:
Does anyone know why the Union Square T station smells like chocolate? It is delightful.
By adamg - Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:33am
Michael Halle was at the starting line for yesterday's Bill Rodgers Somerville Jingle Bell Run and Walk, along with Bill Rodgers himself. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 12/16/2024 - 10:48am
CommonWealth Beacon reports Somerville last week became the second city in the state (after neighboring Cambridge) to end the requirement that new housing units be built with a certain minimum of parking.
By adamg - Sat, 12/07/2024 - 9:40am
With the problem with ruffians from Somerville High, the Somerville Public Library's new crisis is coming from inside the house. Cambridge Day reports on recent resignations by librarians because of alleged harassment from a co-worker.
By adamg - Sat, 11/30/2024 - 10:02am
GBH News reports on efforts by councilors in the three cities, including Boston's Enrique Pepén (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) to lift Massachusetts's current standing as the only state where tenants have to pay fees to apartment brokers who work for landlords.
By adamg - Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:25am
Bluesky, a social platform that feels like Twitter circa 2014 (so, yay), seems to have really taken off the past week. Of course, the hardest thing about signing up on a new platform is finding people to follow. Folks on Bluesky have assembled a series of "starter packs" - collections of accounts to follow on specific topics - and there are several of possible interest to people in Boston and the Boston area: Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 2:02pm
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a Cambridge man's first-degree murder sentence for strangling and then dismembering somebody in his apartment in 2015. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 11/03/2024 - 10:59pm
Seems the city of Somerville does a "happiness" survey every couple of years. Cambridge Day reports Somerville residents are pretty content, although most worry about being prices out of the city. But Somerville is united as one in hatred of rats:
Responses showed "an extensive hatred for rats," Gartsman said. "It got violent in the comments."
By adamg - Fri, 10/18/2024 - 3:18pm
Cambridge Day reports students and teachers were supposed to go about their business in classrooms while staying out of hallways as police looked for a bomb that didn't exist today.
By adamg - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 5:36pm
The driver of an outbound trolley that derailed just past Lechmere at the start of the afternoon rush hour on Oct. 1, sending seven passengers to the hospital with minor injuries, barreled through the equivalent of a red light at more than three times the speed limit and derailed on a switch that was still shifting into place to get the train to a new track, the National Transportation Safety Board says. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 6:19pm
Somebody called in a bomb threat to the Somerville central library on Highland Avenue shortly before 2 p.m - the scheduled start of a drag-queen story hour, which was then cancelled as police combed the building for a bomb that didn't exist. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 12:21pm
A San Francisco man was arrested yesterday on charges he sent several voice-mail messages to two companies, one in Somerville, one in Cambridge, that he was furious at them and was planning to head over with an AK-47 and a handgun with a silencer and mow down everybody he can. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 09/24/2024 - 2:48pm
Cambridge Day reports on how librarians in Somerville hope to re-open the city's main library in the hours after Somerville High School lets out through the use of private security guards.
By adamg - Wed, 08/28/2024 - 12:21pm
Late yesterday, Somerville announced new hours at the city's central library: It will be closed between 2 and 4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Wednesdays. Read more.
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