Community
For Cambridge Historical Commission, zoning ordinance has ‘changed the calculus’
The Cambridge Historical Commission has become a de facto arbiter of the city’s landscape since the Multifamily Housing Ordinance (MFHO) passed in February 2025. Charles Sullivan, the commission’s long-time executive director, said he is trying to take things in stride, even as requests for historical review increased five-fold last year. Read more Everybody Gotta Eat, […]
History Cambridge moves ahead while waiting for headquarters to sell
History Cambridge may be in the middle of selling its headquarters but finding a new place to serve as a home base is not a huge priority for the organization. Instead of devoting much time and effort to maintaining the historic 6,449 sq. ft. Colonial-style home known as the Hooper-Lee Nichols House, History Cambridge wants […]
Ahead of Independence Day, taking stock in Somerville
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” was the question about 40 Somerville residents posed for themselves for the city’s eighth annual “Reading Frederick Douglass Together” event, which took place at Premiere on Broadway. Read more Cambridge Athletic Hall of Fame announces new class of honorees The public reading of Douglass’s famous 1852 […]
Cambridge Athletic Hall of Fame announces new class of honorees
The Cambridge Athletic Hall of Fame announced its 2026 class of honorees, set to be inducted this November. The inductees are nominated by the public and voted on by The Cambridge Athletic Hall of Fame Committee, a nonprofit organization. Read more At Urban Hearth’s new Inman Square locale, a feast for the eyes as well […]
Your view: Photos from our community
We invite readers to send us photos from around the community. These photos are from the 30th Annual Galluccio Associates Youth sports volunteer and scholarship breakfast, attended by some 300 people. Read more Cambridge fencer now ranked third in the world To date it has distributed more than $350,000 to Cambridge Youth Sports organizations and […]
Dragon Boat Festival draws tens of thousands
As many as 60,000 people came to last weekend’s Dragon Boat Festival, which has grown out of the first such event in North America, held back in 1979. This year’s festival saw a different novel moment, as the first-ever dragon boat team from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School competed. Read more CRLS senior wins state […]
Juneteenth at five: Cambridge’s Black community reflects on ‘our 4th of July’
Five years after Juneteenth became a federal holiday, the spirit of racial liberation that drove it has fizzled. Demands for racial justice are not as loud or widespread. The Trump administration has undermined the preservation of the history of slavery and the Supreme Court recently gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act meant […]
Grabbing a Bite with Taha Jennings
This is the first in a monthly series of conversations with some of our many noteworthy neighbors — people who call the city home or head this way to work or study. We grab a bite, talk shop, learn more about why Cambridge, and shoot the proverbial … well, you know. Read more Somerville Museum […]
Your view: Photos from our community
We invite readers to send us photos from around the community. These photos are from the State House, where Senator Sal DiDomenico hosted a class of 7th graders from the Community Charter School of Cambridge this past week. DiDomenico showed them around the Senate Chamber, the Senate Balcony, the Senate Reading Room, and answered their questions […]
Davis Square neighbors memorialize man caught by MBTA escalator
On Monday night, around 50 Somerville residents gathered outside the Davis Square T station on Holland Street to mourn the death of Steven McCluskey, a 40-year-old man from South Boston who died in March after falling on an escalator descending into the station. Read more Cambridge Public Health Department faces questions following Odunze, Neal absences […]