Somerville City Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen captured the scene along the Fitchburg Line tracks, next to the impending Union Square Green Line stop, after this afternoon's drenching rain. Note the floating timbers. Read more.
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Cambridge Police report arresting Dennis Kelley, 43, of Cambridge, for two gun-related robberies in Cambridge and Somerville on Thursday. Read more.
Or is it the return of the Toyota Corona? In any case, Gazoo's photo of a car parked outside Wally's Barber Shop on Broadway in Somerville today is sure to go viral.
A Boston-area man was charged today as a participant in the failed Capitol coup on Jan. 6. Read more.
The Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership reports officials announced today that the Union Square stub line is now scheduled to open in December instead of October and that the main part of the extension is now scheduled to start up in May, rather than the previously announced December.
Cambridge Day reports the theater is converting its two upstairs screening rooms back into the ballroom they once were.
The Supreme Judicial Court today dismissed Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone's lawsuit against a New York blog and one of its writers under the state wiretap law, because the guy asked if he could record a phone "interview" with Curtatone, and the wiretap law only bars "secretly" recorded conversations. Read more.
Remember when it was about to get cancelled because it was going to cost too much? CommonWealth Magazine reports the project is now forecast to come in under budget, only in part thanks to $103 million in federal recovery aid for mass-transit projects and possibly enough so to let Cambridge and Somerville recover the $45 million they ponied up to keep the project going.
Here's a detailed drone-based video of the work towards extending the Green Line past Lechmere. If you want to skip stuff about the history of the Green Line and work on the existing sections, skip to 4:50 (and yes, the narrator is not from around here, as you can tell by his pronunciation of "Tremont" and "Zakim" but it's still a cool video).
Spatch couldn't help but notice the plaintive fliers on poles along Marshall Street on Somerville's Winter Hill.
Frank Solensky captured the moon over Union Square in Somerville tonight.
Maryr looked up at just the right time after the boomers rolled through this afternoon.
Drug and gun charges announced Wednesday against a Malden couple may be only the start of a federal crackdown on what investigators say is an increasingly violent drug-fueled gang war north of Boston in which gangs have been acquiring machine guns to spray rivals and rival turf with bullets. Read more.
WBUR reports Curtatone made the announcement today; did not say if he'll be running for governor instead.
The Boston Institute for Non-Profit Journalism has launched Somerville Wire to cover the city of 80,000.