With Puerto Rico in ongoing crisis from natural disasters and the federal government providing slow and grudging assistance, Cambridge – considered a gateway for migrants from the island for more than six decades – is stepping up.
The Cambridge Housing Authority is making it temporarily easier for families and individuals displaced by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria to qualify for Cambridge public housing.
A veritable monsoon took down wires, tree limbs and even entire trees as tall as a triple-decker Tuesday in Cambridge, Somerville and Medford, soaking fleeing people within seconds and even bringing hail.
Opponents of an apartment project planned for the site of Cambridge’s Route 2 Lanes & Games bowling alley and Gateway Inn motel went away disappointed Monday when the Arlington Redevelopment Board decided against weighing in against the proposal.
To better care for trees and to engage the Cambridge community – green thumb not required – the Public Works Department has launched an Adopt a Tree Program for some 12,500 plantings.
Neighbors opposed to an apartment project planned for the site of the Lanes & Games bowling alley and Gateway Inn motel have asked the Arlington Redevelopment Board to take a position on the proposal.
With temperatures at least expected to reach the 70s in the coming week and the likelihood of snow all but vanished for the year, the city has done its accounting: Cambridge got about 43 inches of snow this winter, costing just below $3.1 million to deal with.
Cambridge Public Schools officials have taken a couple of good half steps toward transparency on calling snow days, but the two half steps don’t quite equal taking a whole step forward. It looks more like shuffling uncertainly.
A Tuesday storm dumped an estimated 6.2 inches of snow on the city, temporarily cutting off power to more than a thousand residents as high winds took down tree branches and power lines, public works and utility officials reported.
With the region expecting likely snowfall of 12 to 18 inches, but potentially as much as 20 inches, officials has announced that city offices, libraries and schools would close Tuesday.