Atomic Bean Cafe space still empty after 2.2 years because businesses in ‘condo’ reject competition
A dispute sparked by a noncompete agreement among landlords of businesses along a popular block of Massachusetts Avenue, including the Plough & Stars bar and restaurant and the Mass Ave Diner, has ended up in court after two lost sales.
Unarmed responders will start with day calls only upon launch in March; Heart program is set aside
The city’s new emergency response team that will serve as an alternative to police will start taking calls through 911 next month but without expected night and weekend coverage; meanwhile, chances have dimmed for a long-sought city contract with a homegrown police alternative.
Dismissal of one charge doesn’t free jailed man hurt in Thanksgiving Day shooting near Central
A judge has dismissed a domestic violence charge against the Boston man who was injured in a Thanksgiving Day shooting in Central Square that killed 27-year-old Danasia Greene of Cambridge. He faces more charges.
Affordable homeownership program sees change that leaves some feeling stuck, worrying for heirs
Gratitude as a formula is improved to add home value is muted by its limitations and inheritance rules that could force children of owners to stay poor if they wanted to stay where they were raised. The program could also slow the availability of units.
Unarmed Community Safety fires three of eight from response teams with two months to launch
The dismissals won’t delay the department’s plan to start responding in March to calls from death notifications to people experiencing emotional crises.
Cambridge schools will take children in Registry after state has trouble relocating families swiftly
Children in migrant and other families staying at the temporary overnight shelter at the Registry of Deeds building in East Cambridge will be able to enroll in Cambridge Public Schools starting this week.
Cambridge officer pleads not guilty to charges concerning criminal records, firearm storage
A seven-year veteran and member of the department’s Special Response Team will be on pretrial probation for a year and undergo evaluations.
A year after a young man’s death in Cambridge, the details of an inquest portray a troubled mind
Materials from an inquest into the death of Arif Sayed Faisal show a young man feeling “anxious, tense and scared” and worrying family, friends and strangers, and whose behavior at the end of his life unsettled and disturbed police and EMTs.
Fight over vital power project is turning nastier with Eversource, MIT and city filings to board
Cambridge and Eversource have rejected a compromise offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on underground cable routes through the MIT campus for the utility’s huge transmission project in Cambridge, Somerville and Boston.
Police body cameras could come in early 2024, though tech report to the council left much out
City councillors approved a report on privacy and other impacts of police body cameras. The report did not discuss many costs associated with a program and failed to mention some automated or remotely operated options of the technology.
