New Cambridge paper now ex-Cambridge paper

I enjoyed Cambridge Day, which I picked up most weekday mornings at the Someday Cafe or elsewhere in Davis Square. It was umistakably a labor of love, the work of someone who is truly focused on the well-being of his locality.

For those of you who never saw it, it was an eight-page tabloid, published every weekday, with a few news stories on the front and back pages, wrapped around a comprehensive daily calendar of Cambridge events, organized by time of day. Sometimes there were editorials or letters to the editor on pages 2 or 3.

Unfortunately, he only published 19 issues. That's not nearly enough time for either readers or advertisers to get used to the idea of a new local paper, and I'm surprised that Levy expected to be able to break even in such a short time.

I hope he tries again, either with an online version, or a less-frequent printed paper. Cambridge needs better news coverage than it's getting now from either the Globe or the Chronicle.

For that matter, the entire area north of the river could benefit from more locally-focused, and preferably locally-owned, media. In their own ways, The Somerville News and The Alewife try to fill in some of that gap, in both printed and online editions.