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Cambridge and Somerville
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Boomerangs thrift stores to close in Jamaica Plain, South End, and Central Square
The main financial strain the company faced was the expense of the Dedham warehouse where it stored excess inventory, which cost $820,000 a year between rent, maintenance, staff salaries, and benefits.
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Palestinian flags raised in Harvard Yard over the weekend spark outrage
Staff were called to remove the three flags, which were flying over a statute of John Harvard, on Saturday evening. Images of the flags being raised drew sharp criticism online, including from Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Two people rescued in separate incidents on MBTA, officials say
A person was pulled out from under an MBTA Red Line train in Cambridge on Wednesday night, and then a man on a scooter was rescued Thursday morning after he fell into the subway pit at the Tufts Medical Center T stop in Boston, authorities said.
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Meet the man who put up a wooden elephant and two giraffes in Somerville — without asking
Did Hayward Zwerling, a retired endocrinologist and amateur woodworker, ask anyone before erecting his renditions of some of the animal kingdom’s largest beasts on public land? “No. I just did it,” he said.
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A promised bridge over the Mystic River would be a missing link for Somerville and Everett. So where is it?
The project, which bikers, mayors, and customers say would close a glaring transportation gap, is back on the drawing board.
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At Rodent Academy in Cambridge, you have one assignment: Kill the rats
To beat the pests, we have to be smarter than them. And sometimes, participants at the academy learn, we have to unleash the rat-killing dogs. Really.
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Local officials are scrutinizing ShotSpotter gunshot detection system anew: ‘What exactly have we been doing here?’
Proponents say ShotSpotter saves lives. Civil libertarians say the technology makes it more likely in communities of color that people will have tense or even dangerous run-ins with police.
Serial bank robber pleads guilty to Cambridge robbery, escape from custody, officials say
On May 9, 2022, Kim Daley walked out of the Boston residential reentry center where he was confined after previous federal bank robbery convictions, and six weeks later he robbed a Cambridge bank, officials said.
