Somerville preparing for 2025 PorchFest with new rules, limitations
This year, PorchFest is scheduled to be held on May 10, with May 11 available as a rain date. While the festival will run ...
Music festival clogged the streets of this 80,000-person city. Now, Somerville PorchFest will have more rules.
When it started in 2011, PorchFest was all about thinking small. Last year, it drew hundreds of bands, and tens of thousands ...
Loved ones of murdered Somerville teen mark 30 years since her death, renew calls for justice
Loved ones of a murdered Massachusetts teenager gathered in Somerville Sunday to remember her, 30 years to the day after her body was found behind a housing complex.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey goes 'On The Record' about immigration, housing and transportation
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who was sworn into office in January of 2023, has declared she intends to run for reelection in 2026. During her term, Healey has had to deal with several issues the ...
Developer Thomas O’Brien set to jump in to Boston mayor’s race, sources say
O’Brien, one of Boston’s most prominent real estate developers, plans to enter the race before Mayor Wu holds her own ...
Turkish student at Tufts University is latest Palestinian supporter swept up in US crackdown
A Turkish student detained by federal police as she walked on the streets of a Boston suburb is the latest supporter of ...
Video shows Tufts graduate student grabbed off the street by federal immigration officials
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national with a valid student visa, was arrested Tuesday on her way to meet up with friends to ...
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.
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Boston's St. Patrick's Day may be known for boozy fun, but more are forgoing alcohol
Tommy McCarthy’s Irish bar in Somerville pours more Guinness than almost anywhere in the U.S., yet come this St. Patrick's ...
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As it happened: Micheál Martin’s St Patrick's Day trip to Washington
The US president said he had not heard that some Northern Ireland political parties had decided to boycott St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Washington DC over his administration’s stance on Gaza.
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A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, with Pi Day, St. Patrick’s and the ides of March
Comic drawing workshop from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Boston Figurative Art Center, 285 Washington St., Suite 102, near Union Square, Somerville. Free. Comic artist Christian Garnett leads a session on ...
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In Trump’s Washington, It Pays to Be From Florida
WASHINGTON—Three days before President Trump’s inauguration, Florida mega-lobbyist Brian Ballard threw a party at Mastro’s Steakhouse near the White House with bites of filet mignon, heavy ...