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Public, private efforts under way on aid to Japan
By Marc Levy
Published: March 21, 2011 at 04:32 PM
Cambridge is starting to gear up to help Japan, left reeling by two weeks of earthquakes, aftershocks and tsunamis and a resulting nuclear crisis.
Hearing could cost developer control of site
By Marc Levy
Published: March 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM
A Thursday hearing will decide whether developer Joseph Perroncello gets an extension on filing plans to exit bankruptcy protection, with control of his site on Yerxa Road and Rindge Avenue either staying with him or potentially going to Webster Bank.
I gave at the homeless
By Marc Levy
Published: March 21, 2011 at 07:00 AM
The most affecting pleas for charity are the most direct ones, and they’re the ones I fall for almost constantly — ahead of donations for political or institutional causes and after natural disasters.
East Cambridge trust asks advice on open space spending
By Marc Levy
Published: March 17, 2011 at 02:50 PM
The East Cambridge Open Space Trust has its money and wants residents to say how it should be spent, said Mark Jaquith, chairman of the trust’s board.
City’s role in greenhouse gas plan to get a look
By Marc Levy
Published: March 17, 2011 at 02:05 PM
The governor’s Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020 — including how Cambridge can help decrease greenhouse gas emissions by up to 25 percent below 1990 levels — is getting a close look March 29.
Talk to offer look at living in ‘eco-municipality’
By Marc Levy
Published: March 16, 2011 at 11:02 PM
Cambridge has declared itself a green community that is responding to a climate emergency, but Portsmouth, N.H., declared itself an “Eco-Municipality” all the way back in 2007. Residents are invited to learn about the designation Wednesday.
Innovation Agenda vote was respectful, thoughtful
By admin
Published: March 16, 2011 at 05:12 PM
This vote is very difficult for many. Please know that members of the School Committee respect and empathize with that difficulty; it is what made this decision so heart-wrenching.
Plan for ‘upper schools’ passes 6-1
By Marc Levy
Published: March 15, 2011 at 10:35 PM
The School Committee approved the creation of four “upper schools” in a 6-1 vote Tuesday. Member Alice Turkel was the “no” vote.
High school principal Saheed retiring
By Marc Levy
Published: March 15, 2011 at 08:23 PM
Chris Saheed, principal of Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, is retiring, it was announced Monday at a School Committee meeting.
School plan process draws rebukes from parents and an apology
By Marc Levy
Published: March 15, 2011 at 04:40 PM
A vote on whether to adopt an Innovation Agenda to create four public “upper schools” for the district is set for tonight at a 6 p.m. meeting in City Hall.