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More than $5.9k raised at fair to support Mugar project opponents

October 27, 2022

UPDATED Oct. 27: The Coalition to Save the Mugar Wetlands has set an initial target of $50,000 to support the efforts of the residents…

Development

Mugar project opponents raise $10k of $50k goal in legal fight

September 11, 2022

by Bob Sprague

UPDATED Sept. 11: The Coalition to Save the Mugar Wetlands has set an initial target of $50,000 to support the efforts of the residents…

Arlington vua Google Earth: Your Town, Your Future

Zoning

E. Arlington residents decry zoning plea; proponent responds

March 23, 2022

by Bob Sprague

Thomas and Marielle Allor submitted this letter to the editor about the potential impact of proposed zoning articles. (The article’s proponent responds in comments…

Housing

MBTA zoning guide could revamp East Arlington, writer says

February 2, 2022

by Bob Sprague

Don Seltzer, an Arlington resident, offers the following viewpoint about how a revised zoning law affects East Arlington. These are his own opinions, and…

New streetlight at Lafayette Street, East Arlington. / Adam Auster photo

Town Hall

In a dark time, town provides a guiding light

December 21, 2021

by Bob Sprague

New streetlight at Lafayette Street, East Arlington. / Adam Auster photo For years, just before Christmas, I have published two poems — Eliot’s “Journey…

Letters to the editor

We need our wetlands

July 12, 2021

by Bob Sprague

Rachel Roth, a resident of Chandler Street, East Arlington, submitted this letter to the editor: On July 9, after the rain stopped, I went…

Development

Mugar developer assures public, as opponents gird for hearing

December 10, 2019

by Bob Sprague

UPDATED, Dec. 6: In opposition continuing since 2015, the Coalition to Save the Mugar Wetlands is asking the public to show up at Town…

Film

Winners in 9th annual Arlington International Film Festival

November 19, 2019

by Bob Sprague

Here are the audience choices for the ninth annual Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF), showing at the Capitol Theatre in East Arlington from Nov. 7…

Community

Along Mass. Ave., times are a-changin’

July 8, 2018

by Bob Sprague

Adam Auster, who writes a blog called Word on the Street, discusses three experiments underway in town in a post titled “Innovation Ave.” A platoon…

Town Hall

Suggestions about Lake St. traffic signs

September 28, 2016

by Bob Sprague

The following letter about Lake Street traffic signs from Nate Goldshlag of East Arlington was sent to the Board of Selectmen and is republished…

More than $5.9k raised at fair to support Mugar project opponents

Mugar project opponents raise $10k of $50k goal in legal fight

E. Arlington residents decry zoning plea; proponent responds

MBTA zoning guide could revamp East Arlington, writer says

In a dark time, town provides a guiding light

We need our wetlands

Mugar developer assures public, as opponents gird for hearing

Winners in 9th annual Arlington International Film Festival

Suggestions about Lake St. traffic signs

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Maureen C. Regan, retired Watertown educator, has died

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Police Log: Sept. 29 to Oct. 4: reports of larceny, a fire and an auto accident

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