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Petition signatures force reconsideration of sign law
By Marc Levy
Published: October 21, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Monday’s meeting of the City Council, once to be a roundtable, is listed now as a regular meeting. What’s changed: The Election Commission certified 11,461 signatures from a petition to rescind the council’s 6-3 vote for a sign ordinance.
High school’s diversity compelled senior to transfer, capture images
By Marc Levy
Published: October 20, 2010 at 12:59 AM
A series of rich black-and-white portraits called “The Faces of CRLS” are in City Hall through Nov. 1. The artist: a high school senior who not only had to be part of the the school’s diversity, but to capture it on film.
Petition against sign law gets hearing Wednesday
By Marc Levy
Published: October 20, 2010 at 12:23 AM
A petition against changes to the city’s sign law will be addressed at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at a City Hall meeting of the Board of Election Commissioners.
Parking sticker fees will leap 150%, council decides; MIT slammed for development
By Chelsea Reil
Published: October 19, 2010 at 01:36 AM
The cost of resident parking stickers will rise to $20 next year and to $25 in 2013, from $8, the City Council decided Monday in a meeting that included heavy criticism of MIT’s approach to development.
Ethnic eatery to replace short-lived Banjo’s deli in Porter Square
By Marc Levy
Published: October 16, 2010 at 02:06 PM
The short-lived Banjo’s deli in Porter Square may soon be transformed into Darul Kabab, a 37-seat Bangladeshi-Indian-Pakistani kabob, curry, and rice dish Halal eatery.
Petition filed to force reconsideration of sign ordinance
By Marc Levy
Published: October 15, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Recent changes to the city’s sign ordinance face reconsideration with the filing of a petition Friday bearing as many as 15,581 signatures.
First meeting on park development is Thursday
By Marc Levy
Published: October 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM
The first in a series of fall public outreach meetings on parks and play in Cambridge takes place 7 p.m. Thursday at the West Cambridge Youth Center, 680 Huron Ave.
GLBT Commission seeks members, and commitments
By Marc Levy
Published: October 13, 2010 at 08:01 PM
There are at least three vacancies on the city’s GLBT Commission, and this time applicants are being asked to attend a meeting before signing up.
Nobel winner had already taken home an Ig
By Marc Levy
Published: October 12, 2010 at 06:51 PM
With his win of the Nobel Prize for physics last week, Andre Geim became the first individual to have also won an Ig Nobel Prize — the Cambridge-based award for science that “first makes you laugh, then makes you think.”
Teams take on massive revamp of schools’ structure, facilities, choice
By Marc Levy
Published: October 12, 2010 at 05:57 PM
The long-range path of Cambridge’s public schools is to be set by mid-February on three massive, overlapping topics — a districtwide educational plan; a facilities revamp that includes construction throughout the district, and therefore the large-scale moving of students; and a review of the controlled choice system that determines which students go to which schools.