Attend meetings in Cambridge for April 18-25 about after-school and transportation policies
Public meetings this week look at city-funded housing vouchers; transportation planning policy; universal after-school options and the middle-school experience; and what’s next for a church weathervane made in 1721.
Paid legal notices for Cambridge for April 25-May 2
Cambridge public notices for the Planning Board, including the Khalida Griffin-Sheperd petition; Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission; Historical Commission; Board of Zoning Appeal; and City Council Finance Committee.
Paid legal notices for Cambridge for April 18-25
Cambridge public notices for the Board of Zoning Appeal and Cambridge Historical Commission, Planning Board definitions for hotels and motels and for the Khalida Griffin-Sheperd zoning petition, and an ordinance about the Fresh Pond Golf Course Pro Shop Fund.
Attend Somerville meetings for March 28-April 4 about public safety and six-story U-Haul project
Public meetings this week look at a proposed six-story U-Haul rental center, creating and shaping public safety policies, an Inner Belt hotel and more.
City manager elevates sustainability and housing into new departments, and transportation moves
Cambridge is getting a Sustainability Office that will be led by a chief climate officer – a new role – who will report directly to City Manager Yi-An Huang.
You can treat your Valentine at one of North Cambridge’s historic businesses
American colonists began to mark Valentine’s day in the 18th century by exchanging handmade Valentine cards. Local businesses with significant history can help residents keep celebrating this Valentine’s Day.
Where’s the border? Debate on North Cambridge illustrates many ways to define a neighborhood
Defining a neighborhood is not as easy as it may seem at first glance. This is proving to be particularly true for the focus for 2024: North Cambridge.
Reader inquiry about plaque on Fresh Pond rotary rediscovers Teeven, a North Cambridge war hero
The marker’s location makes an up-close examination difficult, but it draws attention. Then-Boston Herald columnist Steve Buckley was also intrigued by the memorial and ultimately produced a documentary about it: “I’ll Be Seeing You: An American Story of World War II.”
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from singing over silents to Britanik comedy
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble performs its “Photoplay,” there’s art such as “Poems of Electronic Air,” academic talks on “The Rhetoric of Black Populism: From Malcolm X to the ‘Manosphere’” and the comedy duo Britanik takes the stage.
St. John the Evangelist’s embrace of newcomers turned it into a cornerstone of North Cambridge
The 19th century need for a parish in North Cambridge was fed by industrial development in clay pits and brickyards and the immigrants who worked in these industries, especially Irish and French Canadian Catholics.
