City Council challengers Jesse Gordon and Sam Seidel await election results Nov. 8, 2005, at the Central Square senior centers, where results were being counted. (Photo: Schuyler Pisha) Patty Nolan became the story of Election Day 2005 with an upset wi …

Citizen activists have been badgering officials over access to city-owned properties, saying Cambridge has ignored its disabled and that much improvement is needed. But these folks — including outspoken disability advocate Kathy Podgers and friends — a …

Homeless they may be, but Kevin DeMello and Boris, aka “Moscow,” adhere to a strict set of rules when it comes to common courtesy and common sense. They don’t keep pestering someone after they’ve given a donation. They don’t ever “mistake kindness for …

Kevin DeMello and his “running partner,” Boris, aka “Moscow,” roamed the streets yesterday around Central Square. Both men had been drinking, and it was only 10 a.m. There was no place for them to go. The nearest shelter, on Albany Street, was full the …

With less than one day to go to city elections, challengers are scurrying around ringing as many doorbells as they can, trying to get their message out, whether it be for economic prosperity, slow growth or quality of life issues. One thing most challe …

Planning Board attention for eight loft-style apartments, underground parking and a woodworking shop at 95 Harvey St. was put on hold Tuesday so developer Michael O’Shea and neighbors of the property could have more time to iron out their differences. …

Homeless Vietnam veteran Richard Lucas staggered into the police station Thursday morning with dried blood all over his clothes and face, complaining he’d been assaulted and robbed the night before in front of the old Central Square Burger King. “I was …

The so-called Bence site, at Mass Avenue and Everett Street, sits amid Harvard University property and faces an uncertain future as the school expands. A change in zoning laws would protect retail on the ground level of the avenue, although it would no …

Gaku Takasu, who works at the Yoshinoya Japanese grocery, said in November 2005 that his boss rented this parking space for him on Vail Court. Many of the units in these buildings are vacant. (Photo: Schuyler Pisha) With a city decision Tuesday, more t …

Kathy Podgers displays problems Nov. 2, 2005, at the Central Square senior center, above, where doors lock behind handicapped elderly people and there is no buzzer to call someone to let them in. (Photo: Rick Guinness) Despite a recent effort by city o …