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By adamg - 10/4/12 - 6:37 am

Elise Ramsay says goodbye to the guy who gave her a copy of the Metro every morning at the Davis Square T stop:

By adamg - 10/2/12 - 10:29 pm

UPDATE: Boston Metro eulogizes Tagliaferro.

Earlier today, Anthea noted the absence of the normal Metro guy at the Davis Square T stop for the past two days. The Somerville Journal tonight posts a photo of a simple sign posted in the T stop:

In memory of David J. Tagliaferro, 1945-2012. Rest in peace, David, you will be missed.

By adamg - 10/2/12 - 2:52 pm

Somerville Police report a woman walking on Dover Street toward Cambridge from the T stop was grabbed from behind around 8 p.m. yesterday:

The victim turned around, saw the suspect and screamed while running into the street. The suspect immediately fled in the direction of Davis Square. The victim was not injured and required no medical treatment.

The suspect was described as black, about 6' tall, wearing all black clothing and a black baseball cap.

By adamg - 9/3/12 - 12:38 pm

David reveals his true identity: Yes, he's the guy who replaced all the missing letters in the Diesel Cafe's Scrabble set. And:

Across the 'ville at Bloc 11, I found an even more perplexing situation, a set with 133 tiles, 33 more than regulation. But it wasn't pure surplus, there were still tiles missing, such as both of the Bs normally in the set. So I contributed the missing tiles and set the excess aside, returning another scrabble set to 100-tile perfection, at least for now.

By adamg - 8/27/12 - 12:13 pm

The MBTA reports a potential bioterror germ attack alert system starts getting tested after the last train of the night on Wednesday at Davis, Porter and Harvard stations on the Red Line.

By adamg - 8/12/12 - 9:59 am

Toporopi reports finding an orange lizard just hanging out in the street in Davis Square. Jef Taylor identifies it as a rare color morph bearded dragon.

Based on the comments on the post, looks like the lizard will either be rescued by a group that specializes in such things or returned to its owners.

By adamg - 8/3/12 - 10:26 pm

Bank robbery suspectSomerville Police report they are looking for a man who held up the Eastern Bank branch in Davis Square tod

By adamg - 7/14/12 - 10:23 am

A Redditor reports on a creeper hitting on men who make the mistake of sitting on benches in Davis Square.

By adamg - 6/12/12 - 8:14 pm

Somebody in Davis Square has some issues with an unknown neighbor:

By adamg - 6/9/12 - 12:26 pm

Bass bass

By adamg - 5/28/12 - 9:47 pm

Candles, anyone? Misha Wolfson reports the power line runs right through Davis Square:

Elm St. side is dark, College Ave. side is normal.

By adamg - 5/22/12 - 10:06 pm

Whoever stole a one-of-a-kind, artist-designed Weekly Dig news box had better hope they don't run into Joe Curtatone in a dark alley. He tweets tonight:

Surely someone can find some other piece of ironic furniture. Return Rawr!

By adamg - 5/14/12 - 9:08 am

Rush Hour Race pitted the three transportation modes in a battle to the death, um, fastest commute this morning between Davis Square and Kendall Square. LivableStreets reports bike won, followed nine minutes later by the T. The car sputtered in last.

Steve Annear reports that, yes, the bicyclist stopped for all red lights.

By adamg - 5/1/12 - 9:35 am

The Department of Homeland Security says the moves will ensure the tests, planned for this summer at Harvard, Porter and Davis on the Red Line, pose no risk to riders with immune problems, according to a DHS report - unlike fellow riders or snakes.

By adamg - 3/26/12 - 6:40 am

The Daily Free Press reports a Davis Square health club is offering an exercise program based on "The Hunger Games:"

While the workout does not include a fight to the death as in the book, Cronin said players still get competitive.

By adamg - 3/10/12 - 11:01 am

And was promptly delayed so emergency workers could retrieve somebody who fell onto the tracks at Davis. No contact with the third rail, at least, Mike Moura tweets.

By adamg - 2/29/12 - 7:45 pm

Kristina Cary reports a trash fire means problems on the Red Line in Cambridge and Somerville tonight.

By adamg - 1/27/12 - 7:21 am

MissingA local parent is frantically searching for his daughter's Lisa Leopard, stolen out of the family mini-van last night at the Rite-Aid near Davis Square:

She has had her since she was 3 years old. This is the go-to comfort toy. No, this is her best friend. This is the thing she brought to EVERY SINGLE "show and tell" day at school for a year.

This is her Hobbes. In fact, when I introduced her to Calvin and Hobbes last year, it was as if she had written the comics in a previous life.

So as you can imagine, I have spent the last several hours in the rain inspecting every square inch within a five block radius of the crime scene. I have been trying to get into the heads of whatever stoner kids found an unlocked door, grabbed the first thing they saw, and looked inside, and realized that there was nothing worth stealing. I have gone into every trash can and made friends with the T station workers. I even chatted up a few of the downtrodden folks at the bottle redemption center.

By adamg - 12/4/11 - 8:21 pm

In fact, this photo is part of a set by the MBTA showing re-painting at the station while the Red Line is shut down for track work.

By adamg - 11/24/11 - 6:59 pm

Trotting turkey

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