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A community within a community

There is a nearly invisible line in many communities around here. Over the past twenty years, the area within this line has grown in Boston, Newton, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Sharon,  Malden and some other towns in Eastern Massachusetts. Orthodox Jews buy on one side of it, whenever possible. Is this …

Somerville commercial tax hikes, what do they mean to the happy homeowner?

Small business owners in Somerville were sucker-punched this year by their commercial property tax bills. They were expecting up to a 15 …