Mail mishap loses neighbor’s lawsuit against developer

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Published: November 17, 2005 at 06:00 AM

The Long Funeral Home lawsuit was thrown out yesterday by a Middlesex Superior Court judge who ruled that developer and former city building inspector Husam “Sam” Azzam — missing from court — was “indispensable” to the proceedings against him and the city. After all, it is Azzam’s 55-foot-tall, 15-unit condo at Porter Square that residents were suing [...]

Brick sidewalks head for a fall

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Published: November 16, 2005 at 06:00 AM

Cambridge has a sidewalk improvement plan that involves more than $9 million in upgrades over five years. In the meantime, people are tripping and falling along the city’s historic walkways. The City Council decided Monday to look for an alternative to the bricks, which require constant maintenance and are often pushed up by tree roots. [...]

City slow to act on public-toilet issue

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Published: November 15, 2005 at 06:00 AM

People complain about the homeless urinating in plain view, but the city has virtually abandoned the idea of providing public bathrooms. There was a toilet committee in December 2003 that discussed putting in public toilets here and there — Harvard Square was one proposed location — but nothing came of it. The public toilet issue [...]

Veterans strong, but silent publicly, about feelings on Iraq

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Published: November 14, 2005 at 06:00 AM

Men drinking Saturday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Huron Avenue say they are afraid to publicly state many of their views on the Iraq war, specifically those opposing the anti-war politics of vice mayor Marjorie Decker, for fear of being branded “warmongers.” One Marine, two Army veterans and an Air force veteran, [...]

Police report: Robberies, assaults and vandalism rife

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Published: November 14, 2005 at 06:00 AM

Cambridge police are looking for a young man wanted in connection with a knifepoint robbery that occurred Thursday night on Trowbridge Street. The victim said a teenager on a BMX bike approached him and demanded his money. The victim surrendered his $30, police said, and the robber fled toward Kirkland Street. The suspect was described [...]

Regulars forget loss of dance hall when music starts

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Published: November 11, 2005 at 06:00 AM

At a City Council meeting in late September, vice mayor Marjorie Decker promised to keep the contra dancers who use the Huron Avenue Veterans of Foreign Wars hall dancing in Cambridge, even though the hall is slated to become a youth center after Cambridge buys it. She said she would work with the groups to [...]

Land takings derailed, Faces nightclub goes on decaying

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Published: November 11, 2005 at 06:00 AM

The city’s tentative stabs at taking land — to rid Route 2 of the massive, rotting Faces nightclub and build a walkway over railroad tracks near Fresh Pond — are over before they even began, officials said yesterday. Perhaps inspired by the June U.S. Supreme Court ruling that suggested communities can take private property for the greater [...]

New councilor Kelley assures constituents of his intents

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Published: November 10, 2005 at 06:00 AM

If the City Council had retained all of its nine members, it would have made history by becoming the first in Cambridge history to be elected to three terms. But newcomer Craig Kelley, in his second run for council, played spoiler, knocking off incumbent David Maher in a stunning upset he attributed to winning the [...]

Computer glitch frustrated election crowd

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Published: November 10, 2005 at 06:00 AM

The anxious crowd was focused on one thing Tuesday night: Who won? Would it be the same City Council and School Committee, or would any of the challengers be able to pull off an upset? For a while, though, it looked as though breakdown by Election Commission computers would delay the answer — and the [...]

Winning issues didn’t work for all school board candidates

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Published: November 10, 2005 at 06:00 AM

Victory was especially sweet for School Committee challengers Luc Schuster and Patty Nolan in Tuesday’s election because they had to fight hard against tough incumbents on issues that seemed to be a focus of the entire community. But it’s a mystery as to why they bumped two incumbents who stood for the same thing: reallocation [...]

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