The Medford City Council will hold the first of their summer monthly meetings on Tuesday, July 15 at 7PM in the Howard Alden Memorial Chambers.
Items on the agenda include a resolution by Council Vice President Breanna Lungo-Koehn directing the city to paint lane lines on Salem Street in Medford Square to separate the three lines […]

The Medford City Council will be conducting Council Meetings on the following summer dates and times:
Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 7:00 PM
Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 7:00 PM
Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 7:00 PM
Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 7:00 PM
All meetings take place in the Howard Alden Memorial Chambers, 2nd Floor, City Hall.
For further information, please contact the City […]

Council Approves $600,000 Loan to Construct Wind Mill
The School Committee approved plans for wind turbine similar to this one at the McGlynn School. The wind turbine pictured at left belongs to the IBEW Local 103 in Dorchester. Courtesy photo.
- Allison Goldsberry
After three years of planning, Medford’s first wind turbine will be constructed […]

Story Updated 11:27AM Friday, June 27, 2008
The Medford City Council met Tuesday night to continue with budget deliberations for fiscal year 2009 and unanimously voted for a $132 million budget.
Below is a preliminary budget presented to the Council from Mayor Michael McGlynn. Updated numbers will be available on InsideMedford.com on Wednesday.
The city managed to […]

Rising Costs, Unexpected Expenses Make for Tough Budget Season
The city will tackle putting together a budget in the next couple of weeks before fiscal year 2009 begins on July 1. 
Rising energy and health insurance costs, combined with unexpected expenses such as a fire at the high school last summer, have left the city scrambling to […]

The Cambridge District Court, pictured at left, is currently sharing space with several other courts and law enforcement offices in this Cambridge high-rise. Courtesy photo.
- Allison Goldsberry
Though the Cambridge District Court metes out justice to Cambridge, Arlington, and Belmont residents, its new home could soon be in Medford.
The state is considering 4040 Mystic Valley […]

Pizza Shop Stayed Open Later than Legally Authorized
- Allison Goldsberry
Despite having a special permit only allowing Domino’s Pizza on Mystic Avenue to operate until 1AM Sunday through Thursday and until 2AM Friday and Saturday, the pizza shop remained open until 2AM every night until it was fined in March.
Restaurant owner Henry Askew told the City […]

Vandals tagged this white fence on Spring Street with graffiti. 
- Allison Goldsberry
It mars a sign at Morrison Park, covers a van in a convenience store parking lot, and is scrawled across a white fence on Spring Street.
It seems graffiti is appearing more and more across the city, and the City Council is fed up.
“It’s something […]