Community
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 […]
In Somerville, a Salute to Service
Pictures from Somerville’s Salute to Service Parade on May 16, Armed Forces Day. The city made this the Memorial Day Parade, as well, and themed the whole event around the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Read more Drones, staches & space opera fashion Somerville’s annual Memorial Day Remembrance will take […]
Accolades and achievements
Dan Hogan received the Hope in Action Award from the Alzheimer’s Association Massachusetts/ New Hampshire Charter, recognizing him for his advocacy work on behalf of people impacted by Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. A long-time member of the Club Passim staff, Hogan has served the club as both an executive direction and senior advisor. […]