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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Cambridge will annex Somerville’s Davis Square and Somerville gets East Cambridge in return, according to a plan laid out Sunday on “The Cambridge Rag,” a Cambridge Community Television show hosted by Roger Nicholson.
The U.S. Census is holding a job fair Monday in hopes of hiring 1,000 people to serve mainly as enumerators, also known as census-takers — the people who go door to door to find people who failed to answer the census packets that will be mailed to them this month.
Plans for remaking Lechmere Square when the T stop moves includes transforming a garage area seen at top into a year-round, 30-stall public market like the one seen above. (Photo: On Land LLC)First came a torrent of public support, then a unanimous City Council vote supporting a plan to remake the area around the Lechmere T stop with a 12-story hotel, plaza and year-round, 30-stall public market.
The long-running Dire Literary Series of readings at the Out of the Blue Art Gallery has announced its lineup for Friday, starting with Ethan Gilsdorf, the Somerville author of travel memoir and pop culture investigation “Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.”
Visitors check out an exhibit at the CAC Gallery on Broadway in Cambridge. (Photo courtesy: Cambridge Arts Council)Even for people without a taste for art, this First Monday @ CAC Gallery is likely to be irresistible: At the free Monday reception for “100 from Cambridge: Preview Exhibition for Cambridge Open Studios,” there will be a product tasting of Taza Chocolate, of Somerville.
The volunteer community group Cambridge-Somerville for Change is hosting a meeting called “Debrief, Regroup and Go Forward” on Tuesday in Central Square.
Cambridge police are seeking witnesses to a fatal accident Tuesday involving a loose hose on a Cambridge Fire Department engine.
There’s a musical and poetic addition to Cambridge’s honors to Martin Luther King Jr., courtesy of the Harvard Square Business Association.
Erika Lawson shows off her 3AM Confections line in December as the final Design Hive show in Cambridge gets under way. (Photo: Marc Levy)December was the last month at the Maria L. Baldwin School for Design Hive, the fashion and crafts fair run by Cambridge resident and business owner Valerie Fox. This is bad for Cambridge, its schools and its students.
Your eyes, stomach and bladder are not deceiving you: Diesel’s large drinks have indeed gotten bigger.