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By adamg - 7/7/23 - 11:38 am

Cambridge Police report on an incident at a store on JFK Street in Harvard Square around 11:10 p.m. on Thursday: Read more.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 11:35 am
Wanted for indecent assault and battery

Surveillance photo via TPD.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say went up to a woman at the Harvard Square T stop and grabbed her buttocks, around 3:40 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 5:28 pm

WBUR report some Cambridge members of the Democratic Socialists of America are moving to expel state Rep. Michael Connolly, who represents Cambridge and Somerville from the organization, for refusing to join two-minutes hates of Maura Healey and Michelle Wu.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 12:01 pm

The MBTA reports residual 10-minute delays on the Red Line after doing something about a train stuck at Porter with a door problem. The T did not say if the train in question was one of the new ones.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 10:12 pm

Update: Union Square shutdown delayed until at least September.

The MBTA announced today that the Green Line Extension will be shut between Lechmere and Union Square for six weeks starting July 18, not because there's anything wrong with the tracks this time, but so MassDOT can make repairs to the Squires Bridge, over which McGrath Highway crosses the tracks near Union Square. Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 10:17 am

The Harvard Crimson reports on today's ruling, which focused in part on admissions at Harvard.

By adamg - 6/28/23 - 9:32 am

Doors on the new Orange Line trains have proven to be cranky, so it's probably no surprise the problem may be popping up on the new trains on the Red Line, made by the same company with the same basic components. Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 9:41 am

Somebody in Cambridge is giving away a colony of C. pennsylvanicus, a variety of carpenter ants, complete with a formicarium: Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 8:11 am

WBZ reports the woman felt compelled to resort to her purse after the birds took up position on either side of her and then started following her.

By adamg - 6/26/23 - 1:44 pm
Wanted for Harvard Square violence

Cambridge Police report they are looking for a guy in an orange Reese's hoodie for various acts of violence and threats to do violence in Harvard Square on May 29.
Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/23 - 10:21 am
One shoe

Her remaining shoe.

1000goodintentions's week did not get off to the best of starts this morning: Just as she approached the top of the escalator from the Red Line up to Harvard Square, she had one of her shoes sucked into the mechanism. Read more.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 11:50 am
Smashed SUV

Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report arresting a man they say was drunk when he drove into the Harvard Square bus tunnel and then crashed his SUV into a pole, around 12:30 this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 10:51 am

The Harvard Art Museums announced today they've ended admission fees for the general public, even if they don't live in Cambridge (Cantabrigians already had free access). Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 2:38 pm

The MBTA reports a "power problem" has knocked out the newest part of the Green Line, between Medford/Tufts and Lechmere, and says riders should consider taking the 80 bus instead.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 12:56 pm
Flyer for a 'lost hat' at Zuzu's Petals and one for a 'lost book' at Lehrhaus

Dueling lost-item ads on local telephone poles.

Zuzu's Petals, or somebody who really likes the wine bar on Hampshire Street in Inman Square, has been busy putting up fliers around the area in search of "lost" items - hats, vases and a single clog last worn there. Then, roving UHub photographer Andrea Gray reports, Lehrhaus, the new kosher tavern on Washington Street in Somerville, put up a flier for Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon's "A Book that Was Lost." Read more.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 9:55 pm

Cambridge Day reports the city of Cambridge has sued the Lexington Planning Board over its approval of a 5.5-acre solar-panel project along Rte. 128 near Cambridge's Hobbs Brook Reservoir. Cambridge is asking a judge to "annul" the board's approval over the project's potential impact on the water supply, including the loss of roughly 1,000 trees.

By adamg - 6/15/23 - 12:46 pm

MIT News reports on work by MIT researchers to develop metal-free electrodes, which could one day replace thin metal electrodes to send electrical impulses to various organs - which work, but sometimes at the cost of scarring and inflammation, which are good for neither patients nor the systems. Read more.

By adamg - 6/15/23 - 10:18 am

In addition to the newly revealed unpleasantries at Harvard Medical School, Harvard's Houghton Library has a 19th-century French book bound in human skin - Des destinées de l'ame (Destinies of the Soul). Read more.

By adamg - 6/13/23 - 9:22 am

Cambridge Police report that around 8 p.m. on Friday, a person walked into Cambridge PD headquarters and "turned in3 $100 bills that he found on Hampshire Street at Portland Street." Police put the bills in an envelope for safe keeping.

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