Author: Daisy Levine
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Medford firefighters say they are fed up with mice and mold in station
Medford firefighters are fed up with their station. Citing rodents, bugs, and mold in the Main Street headquarters — where they eat, sleep, and live almost as much as their own homes — they’re asking for help from city officials,…
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Buy a record, eat a sandwich, hear a band at Boston Music Awards-nominated Medford venue Deep Cuts
There’s a time machine just north of the Mystic Valley Parkway, right where you hit Medford Square. It looks like a bar, but it’s actually part record store, concert hall, sandwich shop and pinball arcade. It’s everything you didn’t know…
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KSAP: Medford High School student by day, rapper by night
One of the Boston Music Awards nominees can’t book any shows Sunday through Thursday — those are school nights. He promised his mom he’d make As and Bs, with a small exception for algebra. Kobe Saperstein is an 18-year-old Medford…
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Why have two Medford affordable housing projects been in the works since 2019?
In 2019, three developers proposed building affordable housing projects that would add more than 1,000 apartments to Medford in the midst of a housing crisis. Nearly seven years later, construction has barely begun on two of them, and the third…
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Medford voters rally around zoning, better help in schools
The local election can be generally split into two groups — one calling themselves Our Revolution Medford, boasting membership of five incumbents, and the other going independent and with one incumbent, Councilor George Scarpelli. There are 14 candidates racing for…
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Medford Rehab employees picket over low wages
By Daisy Levine Employees have been picketing Medford Rehabilitation and Nursing Center for months over their wages. Employees at Medford Rehab make an average of about $17 an hour, making them the lowest-paid unionized nursing home workers in the state.…
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Protestors of all ages rally in Winchester on No Kings Day
By Daisy Levine and Aayushi Datta Hundreds of people of all ages, many dressed in costumes and waving American flags, turned out Saturday at the Winchester Unitarian Society for the town’s No Kings protest. “This is what democracy looks like!”…