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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Thursday Power Outage in Cambridge Ruined Evening Commute

Over 14,000 NSTAR customers in Cambridge lost power Thursday evening, plunging whole neighborhoods into darkness and causing a commuting headache.

Somerville residents faced a nasty commute Thursday evening when a significant power outage in Cambridge led to major delays on the Red Line and gridlock on Cambridge streets. Many Somerville residents work, study and shop in neighboring Cambridge, and those who work in Boston travel through that city on their way home. The outage affected over 14,000 NSTAR customers in Cambridge, about 30 percent of the city, according to the electric company's power outage map, though according to Boston.com as many as 17,000 customers (34 percent) were without power at one point. The outage started at around 4:30 p.m., Boston.com reported Thursday night, and it plunged much of the city, including the Harvard and MIT campuses, into darkness. By 7 p.m. …

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Monday, February 13, 2012

PHOTO: Cantabrigian Blames Somervillians for Dog Poop

A homemade sign in Cambridge suggests Somerville dog owners are using Cambridge as a doggie toilet.

Thanks to Camberville Penny, who Tweets as @camberville, for drawing attention to another point of friction between Somerville and Cambridge. On Cameron Avenue, about half a block on the Cambridge side of the border, someone has posted a sign that makes certain insinuations about Somerville dog owners. The sign reads, in all capital letters: Attention dog owners This is not your personal bathroom for your dog!  Please pick up after your dog - if you do not let your dog go on your front sidewalk or home, please do not let them do it here! Cambridge has an ordinance where dog owners are to clean up after their dogs. Since most of you come from Somerville - please respect the residence [sic] of Cambridge. Thank you. Apparently, barbarian …

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Somerville Man Stabbed and Wounded at Cambridge Bar

A Malden man is facing charges of assault to murder in the alleged stabbing a Somerville man at Tommy Doyle’s Pub in Harvard Square.

Late Friday night, as staff at Tommy Doyle’s Pub in Cambridge allegedly struggled to break up a fight between two men at the bar, one of the pub’s bouncers who resides in Somerville was stabbed and wounded. Cambridge Police arrived at the Harvard Square bar at roughly 1:50 a.m. Saturday morning and report they found the victim, a 48-year-old Somerville man, seated at the bar and bleeding from his chest. He was alert and informed the officers that while trying to break up a fight in the upstairs bar, a customer had stabbed him near his armpit. According to police, the suspect, later identified as Ricardo Garcia, 23, of 41 Playstead Road, Malden, was subdued by bar staff, including one bouncer who heard the call for help via a staff radio. …

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