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By adamg - 6/12/15 - 5:22 pm
Halfway to hell on the Harvard Bridge

Nikki and Noelle noticed the marker pointing the way to MIT today. How much is that in Smoots?

By adamg - 6/8/15 - 8:20 am

Xconomy reports that Spero Therapeutics today announces a $30-million round of investments for its search to find new drugs to fight bacteria that have gained resistance to current antibiotics.

By adamg - 6/7/15 - 3:32 pm

Cambridge Police report officers found two spent shell casings at the park entrance at York and Hamlin streets after somebody called about gunfire just before 3:30 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 6/6/15 - 11:07 pm
Flying contraption at Cambridge race

Turlach MacDonagh took in the sculpture race at part of the Cambridge River Festival today; spotted Mitch Ryerson's Leonardo’s Flying Machine.

Greg Cook also watched the race, which included Bill Turville riding his fish bike: Read more.

By adamg - 6/5/15 - 8:26 pm

People will be running around Cambridgeport Saturday morning while pushing, pulling or pedaling homemade sculptures, including:

Dizzy, the kinetic bird-batting cat built by teens; a square-wheeled sailboat made by Harvard students; a tiny wheeled creature that audibly interacts with audiences; a 23' giant fish; and a boat with flapping wings.

People's Sculpture Racing starts at 11 a.m. at the south corner of University Park Commons.

By adamg - 6/4/15 - 8:20 am

Cambridge Day reports what started out as a quiet update by the principals of the city's upper-grade schools to the School Committee escalated quickly when one of the principals finished a prepared report, then launched into an attack on both the School Committee and the parents he said had constantly tried to undercut him by always running to the School Committee.

By adamg - 6/3/15 - 7:31 am

Cambridge Day reports the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority was intrigued by the idea to turn a lot at Binney and Third streets in Kendall Square into a collection of Japanese-style vending machines, but ultimately decided to try to figure out how to turn the space into a food-truck corral.

By adamg - 5/30/15 - 2:47 pm
Cambridge fire

Martin Luther King Jr. School on Putnam Street. Photo by Juan Carmona.

By adamg - 5/29/15 - 11:20 am
Car on its roof in Kendall Square

Jackie Geilfuss looked down from her Kendall Square office around 11 a.m. to see a car turned turtle on Broadway.

Cambridge Police report: Read more.

By adamg - 5/28/15 - 6:59 pm
Clouds over the Charles River

Ryan Meador watched the clouds moving over the Charles without doing much more than looking menacing, around 6:20 p.m.

By adamg - 5/28/15 - 12:50 pm

Cambridge Police say there won't be anything to be alarmed about on Saturday when you see large clouds of steam erupting out of the Veolia power plant in Kendall Square on Saturday.

Veolia Energy will be conducting a procedure known as steam blowing Saturday, May 30, between 8:00am-6:00pm. ... This operation involves flowing steam through a pipe for the purpose of pipe cleaning. The cleaning will result in large clouds of steam, which may cause curiosity and/or phone calls from the general public.

By adamg - 5/28/15 - 8:00 am

An indictment unsealed yesterday charges Timothy Flaherty with offering $2,500 to a man his client allegedly beat in Cambridge last year to stay away from court. Read more.

By adamg - 5/28/15 - 7:31 am

The Harvard Gazette tells the story of some of the church bells across Cambridge that will be rung this morning after Harvard commencement.

The bells will begin to ring at 11:30 a.m., just after the sheriff of Middlesex County declares the Commencement Exercises adjourned. They will ring for approximately 15 minutes.

By adamg - 5/27/15 - 2:07 pm
Pickard

Cambridge Police report they are looking for Stephen Picard, 45, on charges he ended an argument by plunging a knife into another man's arm around 10:30 p.m. in Porter Square yesterday.

Picard and a pal then got on bicycles and pedaled north on Mass. Ave. Read more.

By adamg - 5/24/15 - 9:37 am

Thanks to Kevin Church for discovering this charming exchange of ideas on a Cambridge street: Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/15 - 8:27 am

Cambridge Day reports on the 232-unit proposal.

By adamg - 5/19/15 - 7:41 am

The Globe reports the people who work in and around Kendall Square are fed up with sitting in traffic. Sure, there's talk of more buses and better switches on the Red Line, but then there's Robert A. Weinberg, director of the Weinberg Laboratory of Cancer Biology at Whitehead Institute: Read more.

By adamg - 5/15/15 - 3:18 pm

Death by lethal injection for killing Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, but found he didn't deserve death for the murder of Krystle Campbell and MIT officer Sean Collier.

WBUR has more details.

Statement by Mayor Walsh: Read more.

By adamg - 5/15/15 - 12:24 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports T.T. the Bear's Place could soon exit this mortal coil.

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