Cambridge
40°
Bill offers impressive response to intense and prevalent bullying
By admin
Published: March 9, 2010
Marc McGovern, vice chairman of the Cambridge School Committee, writes in support of Senate Bill 2283, the anti-bullying legislation.
I’m coming clean on littering
By admin
Published: February 5, 2010
Why do kids, or adults for that matter, think it okay to just toss trash on the ground? Where is the pride?
Orchestra thanks youth hosts for MLK event
By admin
Published: January 23, 2010
The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra thanks the city’s Area IV Youth Center, especially center director Trent Ramsey, teen program director Malika Cox-Arty and preteen program director Bryn Van Alstyne, for making our orchestra part of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day youth event Friday.
We value the opportunity to work with Cambridge’s other community groups and agencies [...]
Superintendent asks input on teaching middle schoolers
By admin
Published: December 10, 2009
Schools Superintendent Jeff Young is seeking community input, through an online survey, on the best way to educate city middle schoolers.
Facts favor Cambridge children seeking satisfying afterschool activities
By admin
Published: December 5, 2009
I found a recent letter to the editor of Cambridge Day complaining about a “dearth” of programming for children rather perplexing. Does the word dearth describe a list of 125 Department of Human Services OST offerings?
Afterschool programs needed
By admin
Published: October 7, 2009
As a parent of teens, I can only reiterate the importance of achieving structured quality out-of-school options for our kids. As stated by leading advocates for afterschool programming, kids are awake 6,000 hours per year. They spend 1,000 of those hours in school and the remaining 5,000 hours trying to figure out what to do with themselves.
City manager, council continue to act against trees
By admin
Published: November 23, 2005
Monday evening, the Cambridge city manager sent to the City Council a message informing it that he had the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s permission to thin trees in the plaza at Porter Station.
This almost certainly forebodes massive destruction. A brief review of the record will indicate what is coming up.
The city manager has twice in the past year [...]
A soldier’s advice: Run listing of Iraq slain again, but with ranks
By admin
Published: November 16, 2005
I have recently come back from a tour in Iraq. I was very moved by the page listing the names of soldiers killed in Iraq (Nov. 2,2005). But I was also bothered by the fact that it is much like the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, D.C., and does not include their rank or [...]
Kelley recounts election, looks forward
By admin
Published: November 14, 2005
Thanks to you, we won!
In case we haven’t connected amid the post-election hoopla, I want to pass along some thrilling City Council results and say thank you! to everyone who supported the Kelley campaign with time, money, signs, kind words and votes.
When Tuesday’s ballots were initially counted, we landed in ninth place with 1,042 vital No. 1 votes — far short of the threshold of 1,608 votes needed to capture one [...]
Dire consequences seen in allowing zoning changes
By admin
Published: November 14, 2005
Cambridge Day has, quite properly, given good reporting to the situation in the Porter Square area.
Regrettably, the most important things going on are kept as quiet as possible.
The heavily treed plaza at the Porter T station is under attack by the city manager and the developer and contractor community.
Fine print was included in the last [...]