1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (412+ words) With a declaration Saturday that he hopes to fill the emptying City Council seat in Ward 3, resident Derrick Rice launched Somerville’s special elections season. Ward 3 is represented by Ben Ewen-Campen, who is leaving at the new year because on Sept....

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (468+ words) As the Davis Square Neighborhood Council nears a vote on whether it will be recognized formally by the city, even some board members say the organization has stuff to figure out first. “Not at this time,” said Edward Woll, a…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (445+ words) Protections for immigrants and undocumented students in Cambridge were strengthened Sept. 1 by the School Committee, underlining protections the city has put in place over the past couple of years. The deadline set by the state in late August to institute…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (226+ words) The campus coming to 115 Sycamore St. would open in 2031 if the plan is advanced by the state and if city voters agree to pay for roughly half the cost – the part not taken care of by the Massachusetts School Building…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (344+ words) 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, said Greg Nadeau of the Somerville Foundation. “Davis has…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (394+ words) Somerville meetings, Sept. 7-14: Changes at Cobble Hill, progress at the old Aguacate Verde restaurant Cambridge | Somerville Independent - These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website....

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (473+ words) Cambridge meetings, Sept. 7-14: Multifamily housing projects and a hotel in Harvard Square Cambridge | Somerville Independent - These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City Calendar and in the city’s…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (443+ words) The development company Copper Mill is giving up on its plan for a redevelopment and residential tower in Somerville’s Davis Square. The company’s head, Andrew Flynn, named the cause in a letter Monday: “There has been no reciprocity from the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1073+ words) For 50 years that home economics was treated as a science, Harvard Square hosted a center for housewives Cambridge | Somerville Independent - By the winter of 1919, as the nation was emerging from its brief but formative participation in World War I, Cambridge…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (292+ words) While MassDOT has long stopped responding to my emails, I have multiple Gmail accounts at my disposal, and after the team released its latest design for the Reid Overpass in Cambridgeport, I returned to an earlier response to see if…...