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By adamg - 8/29/23 - 9:44 am
New bright-yellow CARS ONLY sign being installed at Storrow Drive entrance

Photo of new signs going up by DCR.

DCR announced yesterday it's replacing the dark CARS ONLY signs at ramps to Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive with glaring yellow in-your-face CARS ONLY signs. Read more.

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 2:19 pm
MassDCR says please don't hit our bridges

DCR is out with an online ad spot that urges newcomers to Boston to keep their rental trucks off the river roads - set to just the sort of plaintive music you'd expect on a late-night ASPCA ad:

For just zero dollars a day you can not hit a bridge or overpass on Storrow Drive and and Soldiers Field Road in Boston and Memorial Drive in Cambridge. ... The bridges, and the trucks, will thank you.

By adamg - 8/23/23 - 8:26 am

Cambridge Day gets the scoop: Momma’s Grocery + Wine, 2304 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge, is now selling maple creemees.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 10:43 pm

For the second time in nine months, a federal court has ruled that Harvard is out the $15 million it sought from a legal insurer because it missed the deadline for notifying the company it would invoke the policy for excess bills related to its decade-long, and ultimately unsuccessful, court battle against a group that didn't like its affirmative-action policies. Read more.

By adamg - 8/3/23 - 5:14 pm
GLX Constructors logo

Four construction firms that teamed up to build the Green Line Extension say the company that designed key components of the new trolley line screwed up to the tune of more than $35 million in cost overruns, and they are demanding payment, in a suit filed today in Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.

By adamg - 8/2/23 - 2:31 pm

Cambridge Police report that a driver turning left onto Mason Street from Brattle Street slammed into a bicyclist around 8:54 a.m. yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/30/23 - 11:27 am

Cambridge Day reports on a deal to replace Raven Used Books, which is closing to the public today so it can move to Shelburne Falls.

By adamg - 7/27/23 - 10:09 pm
Rainbow over Harvard Square

Maria Daniels, in Harvard Square, was one of many people who looked up after the rain stopped this evening.

In Jamaica Plain, Handmaid saw the rainbows, too, but also a still angry cloud: Read more.

By adamg - 7/26/23 - 7:12 am

Cambridge Water Department crews are on Portland Street between Hampshire and Washington streets, dealing with a major water-main break that happened early this morning.

Video.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 10:20 pm

Local civil-rights groups said tonight that the federal Department of Education has agreed to investigate their claim that Harvard's continued preference for "legacy" admissions of primarily white applicants violates the rights of Hispanic and Black applicants whose parents or other relatives didn't go to the school or donate large amounts of money to it. Read more.

By adamg - 7/23/23 - 1:26 pm

A roving UHub correspondent reports from Cambridge this afternoon: Read more.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 10:25 pm
Custom House in the torrent

Custom House in the torrent. Photo by Matt Frank. See it larger.

Sarah Wroblewski reports Boston got nearly two inches of rain out of tonight's storm, more than local storm drains and roads could handle in a short amount of time. Some trees came down after being hit by lightning. Read more.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 1:17 pm

MIT News details some of the work required to move decades worth of artifacts from the old MIT Museum to its new digs last fall - and some of the surprising things curators found:

Among the surprises was something that the collection database described simply as a brick. “I noticed it because I tried to move it and it was a lot heavier than I thought it would be,” says Pierri. She discovered that the “brick” was part of a graphite rod created for the world's first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction ...

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 11:43 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reinstated a woman's lawsuit over the injuries she suffered when she tripped over a decorative crosswalk edge raised a half inch above the roadway on Thorndike Street in Cambridge. Read more.

By adamg - 7/16/23 - 9:15 am

Cambridge Police report a man was shot on Harvard Street near Davis Street around 3:50 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 10:05 am

It turns out that people in Cambridge and Somerville drink Bud Light just like everybody else, only, unlike in certain redder parts of the country, they are refusing to boycott the beer-like liquid, Cambridge Day reports. In fact, the news site quotes a worker at one local liquor mart who, on hearing a customer muse enthusiastically about the boycott, told him to move along.

By adamg - 7/12/23 - 9:53 am

Transit Police report arresting the guy they charge grabbed a woman by the buttocks at Harvard Square station on July 2. They said the man, 31, was arrested at his home in Roxbury yesterday.

By adamg - 7/11/23 - 8:38 am
Rainbow over the Charles River

Ksenia Dunn got a good view of yesterday's rainbow over (and into!) the Charles River, along with some UFOs (OK, she says they were really just reflections from the office lights on her window).

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 8:14 am

Cambridge Day recounts the life of James Lewis (also a suspect in a rape and a dismemberment), who died Sunday at 76. Foul play is not suspected.

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 8:01 am

State Rep. Mike Connolly of Cambridge announced this morning he's resigning from the Boston branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, where some members were moving to kick him out for the temerity of working with, and sometimes even endorsing, some non-socialist Democratic elected officials. Read more.

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