People are furious at the state of the MBTA: the fatality, the fire, the explosion, the derailments, the injuries, the delays, the actual and proposed cuts in service, the month-long closure of the Orange and Green Line. In 2009, two reports looked at Gov. Cellucci’s 1999 Forward Funding plan, which was developed with his Administration and Finance […]
SOMERVILLE WIRE: June 14, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
Money for Your Guns, a More Inclusive Farmers Market, and More! Articles NEW LIFE FOR CLARENDON HILL City gives final approval for expansion, renovation of public housing OPINION: ‘FIREHOUSE REELS’ AT THE SOMERVILLE MUSEUM Exhibit highlights the once-controversial practice of cities supporting free speech Shorts Money for Your Guns The Somerville Police Department and the […]
SPECIAL SEQUEL: DESACRALIZED
As another historic Black Boston institution is gentrified, a congregation displaced by condos reflects on this trend and what it means BY CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA [Read the first installment of this series] City churches were designed to be walkable and serve their immediate neighborhoods, but as historically working-class or African American neighborhoods gentrify […]
SPECIAL FEATURE: GREATER BOSTON’S CHURCH TO CONDO PIPELINE
As more and more former Boston churches are being converted into luxury housing, is the city missing out on potential arts and community spaces?
SOMERVILLE WIRE: September 28, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
PorchFest makes a live, outdoor comeback, a ribbon cutting ceremony, and an expansion of Somerville Junction Park