A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Susanna Kaysen, Space Week and bluegrass fest
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Sri Lankan cooking, Susanna Kaysen and “Girl Interrupted” a “Little Prince” opera, a Patriots Day colonial fair, Space Week, Grolier Poetry history, a bluegrass festival and a Flat Top Johnny’s reopening pool party.
Attend meetings in Cambridge from March 21-28 about police budget, flooding and iftar open to all
Public meetings this week look at changes coming to Memorial Drive, school and police budgets, how to fight climate change floodwaters and envisioning the Massachusetts Avenue of 2040. There’s a community iftar celebration, too.
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.”
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.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Oompa and Picasso to ImprovBoston’s end
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, from “Underground Magic,” poetry with Tracy K. Smith and an Oompa concert to the return of the Harvard Plaza WinterFest, a farewell to ImprovBoston and examination of the darker sides of politics and social media.
Returning from Easter fire may challenge church as options to rebuild within Cambridge top $9M
After a six-alarm fire on Easter Sunday, Faith Lutheran Church is determining its next steps, with estimates for a new church building surpassing $9 million.
Church weathervane watched America be born, and may have a future sold to pay for missions
The First Church in Cambridge congregation is divided on what happens next to their historic weathervane: restoration and preservation, or a sale to bolster finances. The church says it won’t move forward until all are consulted.
Will the GOP turn away from Evangelical Christians?
The Republican Party has been broken irreparably by Donald Trump. It can verbally trash Trump and even ditch him, but it needs his base to win.
There’s a question of balance around bike lanes, concept for safety and access pushed too far
Bike lanes in Cambridge aren’t inherently bad. Damaging the livelihoods of small-business owners is. Placing seniors and disabled persons at risk is. And disrupting safe access to places of worship is.
Languishing finances and dwindling enrollment to close The Cambridge Matignon School in June
The 75-year-old Cambridge Matignon School said it will close at the end of the current academic year on June 8. The Catholic institution in North Cambridge made the “somber announcement” Tuesday on its website.
