4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (344+ words) The group working to revive Davis Square is feeling good about its first five months, preparing for a big end to its first season and already looking at what’s coming in 2027, said Greg Nadeau of the Somerville Foundation. “Davis has…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (941+ words) Police raided the ironworks expecting 'charred, grimy,' degraded women, but this labor tale is more complicated Cambridge | Somerville Independent - This week, as Cambridge joins the rest of the country in marking the Labor Day holiday, we also mark the anniversary…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (89+ words) The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: Hit the Books Cambridge | Somerville Independent - The Independent’s sixth locally themed puzzle – they come every other Saturday courtesy of local creator Daniel Mangoubi – has something to teach you about our colleges and universities. Play…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (538+ words) Simon’s Coffee Shop served its final customers at at 1736 Massachusetts Ave. on Monday, but that doesn’t mean the business is gone while its building is torn down and rebuilt with 71 homes overhead. It’s just that owner Simon Yu isn’t able…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (443+ words) The development company Copper Mill is giving up on its plan for a redevelopment and residential tower in Somerville’s Davis Square. The company’s head, Andrew Flynn, named the cause in a letter Monday: “There has been no reciprocity from the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1073+ words) For 50 years that home economics was treated as a science, Harvard Square hosted a center for housewives Cambridge | Somerville Independent - By the winter of 1919, as the nation was emerging from its brief but formative participation in World War I, Cambridge…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (294+ words) What’s a 650-pound skirted robot named Dyanna doing standing near a café-bakery and a brewery? Hard to say, but the adventure of finding a courtyard with such oddities in Somerville was worth the Google map mess-up I endured to get…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (280+ words) The art store Sign of the Dove reopens Sept. 1 at Lesley’s University Hall – next to Porter Square Books – in time for the Cambridge Arts Open Studios, said Susan Tornheim, a member of the arts collective. The store, which had been…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (353+ words) What Cambridge and Somerville readers are buying: Russo returns with ‘Under the Falls’ Cambridge | Somerville Independent - Every week, the Harvard Book Store shares its list of bestsellers with us, and we look at what’s among the top fives (hardcover and…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (505+ words) MacKay supporter responds to letter for Decker, seeking a representative for all of Cambridge Cambridge | Somerville Independent - I would like to respond to the letter “Decker turns progressive advocacy into legislation, resources and results for the community” (Aug. 19). While there…...