It’s simple: Rindge senior’s portfolio earns award

By Marc Levy
Published: March 16, 2010
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The award-winning work of Mollie Shafer-Schweig, a senior in the Rindge School of Technical Arts, is shown in this poster. Click to enlarge.

The award-winning work of Mollie Shafer-Schweig, a senior in the Rindge School of Technical Arts, is shown in this poster. Click to enlarge.  | read this item

Mollie Shafer-Schweig, a senior in the Rindge School of Technical Arts’ commercial design program, won national recognition for her design portfolio in the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers’ Scholastic Art Awards, it was announced today.
She earned a Massachusetts Gold Key, which was submitted to the awards program, where she earned a silver medal, said [...]

Link: Harvard student will fight charges from May shooting

By admin
Published: March 16, 2010

Brittany Smith, a former Harvard student, has pleaded not guilty of involvement in the May shooting of a Cambridge man in a Harvard dorm, The Boston Globe reports.

Gates committee progress report lags in promised posting

By Marc Levy
Published: March 13, 2010

A progress report by the so-called Gates committee remains missing from the Cambridge Police Department Web site, but can be read and downloaded here.

Organizers plan to replace themselves at Urban Exchange

By Marc Levy
Published: March 12, 2010
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The second Boston Urban Exchange draws a crowd to Middlesex Lounge in July. (Photo: Gena Peditto)

The second Boston Urban Exchange draws a crowd to Middlesex Lounge in July. (Photo: Gena Peditto)  | read this item

The organizers of the Boston Urban Exchange are looking to hand off responsibility for the event, a roughly monthly gathering of planning and development nerds that launched in Cambridge last summer.

CCTV’s forced search for replacement space ‘down to the wire’

By Marc Levy
Published: March 11, 2010
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Jason Ong, Jamie O’Brien and Jason Crow work in the big studio at Cambridge Community Television in 2007. The organization’s lease has ended at its 675 Massachusetts Ave. offices. (Photo: CCTV)

Jason Ong, Jamie O’Brien and Jason Crow work in the big studio at Cambridge Community Television in 2007. The organization’s lease has ended at its 675 Massachusetts Ave. offices. (Photo: CCTV)  | read this item

Cambridge Community Television’s search for office and studio space is “down to the wire,” executive director Susan Fleischmann said Thursday, and there is still no deal in place or lease signed.

Residents surprised to find they’re leasing illegally

By Marc Levy
Published: March 10, 2010

Residents at 45-47 Yerxa Road didn’t know they weren’t allowed to live there, and on Wednesday they remained ignorant that a case was headed to court that could uproot them from their homes.

School volunteers, officials face hard truth: Budget can’t spare all

By Marc Levy
Published: March 10, 2010
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School Committee member Richard Harding asks Cambridge school officials about the proposed budget at a Tuesday hearing. (Photo: Liv Rachelle Gold)

School Committee member Richard Harding asks Cambridge school officials about the proposed budget at a Tuesday hearing. (Photo: Liv Rachelle Gold)  | read this item

At a Tuesday school budget hearing, officials and a volunteers organization came up hard against a budgetary wall and the realization not every program can be kept as it is.

Buses go too fast, library policy-making too slow, councillors find

By Marc Levy
Published: March 9, 2010
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Buses speed along Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square. There have been complaints drivers have ignored red lights — and videos posted by wbztv.com showing them doing it. (Photo: Marc Levy)

Buses speed along Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square. There have been complaints drivers have ignored red lights — and videos posted by wbztv.com showing them doing it. (Photo: Marc Levy)  | read this item

Buses running red lights and a raft of problems surrounding the Cambridge Main Library — unused meeting and cafe spaces, shortened hours, parking snarls and a failure to incorporate students from the neighboring high school — have caught city councillors’ attention.

Signs of hope in renewed debate over Central Square

By Marc Levy
Published: March 8, 2010
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There were hints of a resolution Monday to the long-empty 450 Massachusetts Ave. storefront owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Photo: Marc Levy)

There were hints of a resolution Monday to the long-empty 450 Massachusetts Ave. storefront owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Photo: Marc Levy)  | read this item

The decline of Central Square drew debate from city councillors at their Monday meeting, but also signs of hope for two prominently empty storefronts on Massachusetts Avenue.

Interview: City can move beyond Gates incident without investigating, committee member says

By Marc Levy
Published: March 7, 2010
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Interview: City can move beyond Gates incident without investigating, committee member says

Marian Darlington-Hope  | read this item

Cambridge Day had the chance to speak last week with Marian Darlington-Hope, a member of what’s known informally as the “Gates committee,” about the thought processes and motivations of the committee members. There were some surprising answers.

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