Family-owned Ferro’s Foodtown is selling, lifeline for thousands in surrounding units
Joe Ferro, owner of Foodtown and the attached Laundrytown, says a sale is being finalized now to buyers who “plan on running the store and keeping things the same,” though with “a bit of facelift to modern things up.” Residents hope it’s true.
Health Alliance turns to patients as possible hires during Covid crisis, similar to schools’ outreach
Cambridge Health Alliance, coping with staff shortages like many other hospitals during the latest Covid-19 surge, is turning to a novel source for job applicants: its patients. The Alliance sent messages to its patient email list Wednesday, announcing, “CHA is Hiring!” and inviting them to apply.
Changes increasing bike safety in Porter Square remove parking, revive conflict from up the road
Plans in Porter Square call for the installation of quick-build flex posts separating cyclists from car traffic and the removal of significant numbers of parking spaces – similar to a project that brought months of anger and dispute farther north on Massachusetts Avenue.
Cambridge adds another testing site as Covid feels like a drop ‘from 150 mph to 100 mph’
Cambridge will add a fifth Covid-19 testing site next month, expecting a return to high demand for tests around the February school vacation period. A recent rapid fall in infections has city councillors asking when the coronavirus would stop being a crisis – but hearing that it’s no time soon.
Fans of the city golf course rally to keep it whole in one long comment period now due to repeat
The possibility of losing the Fresh Pond Golf Course inspired more than 30 people to speak in its defense at Monday’s meeting of the City Council, leading to new councillor Paul Toner’s first use of his “charter right” to set the issue aside for one regular meeting.
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In February, Cambridge and Brookline connect exploring ‘Black experience in slavery, freedom’
A virtual History Café on Feb. 3 about “Local History and the Black Experience in Slavery and Freedom” will speak with Barbara Brown of Hidden Brookline about how Cambridge can learn from work done across the river – including a look at Florida Ruffin Ridley, whose life and work intersected closely with that of Cambridge’s own Maria Baldwin.
Local’s photo of Canada geese chicks wins in Mass Audubon contest
Cambridge’s Suzanne Teegarden is a winner in the year’s Mass Audubon statewide photography contest with an image of Canada geese chicks taken in Watertown.
(Don’t) love that dirty water – sewage problem needs treatment with more balanced growth
To bend the curve of climate change takes more than the goodwill of Cantabrigians. In the case of waste escaping into the Alewife Brook and overdevelopment in Cambridge Highlands, the City Council, Planning Board and city manager must work together to ensure all new construction is part of a solution.
Municipal broadband ‘feasibility study’ is tilted against the success of project it’s set up to assess
An assumption that anything built would be cost-neutral or revenue positive within 10 years is undermined by starting with social justice; there are no current plans for public engagement for a market survey; and the City Council’s work has been slowed to nothing by the manager’s obstruction. Cambridge is far from ready for a decision.
I’m mandating vaccines at my small business. But I know it won’t be the answer for everyone.
Although I made this decision for my own business and strongly encourage others to do the same, businesses should have the freedom to make their own decisions. Creative approaches such as incentive programs encourage participation without forcing their hand.
Veggie crepes at Mr. Crepe
Camberville does not have a lot of Crepe options, but Mr. Crepe in Davis Square has been selling the golden brown triangles of savory or sweet goodness since the 1990s.
Animation leads with ‘Cryptozoo’ and ‘Mitchells’ at Brattle, and ‘Flee’; Kendall has ‘Drive My Car’
These looks at what’s on the big screen in the coming week include reviews for “Drive My Car” and “Flee,” an animated doc joined by another boundary-pushing animated film, “Cryptozoo” at The Brattle, by the more traditional “Mitchells vs. the Machines” and more cinema from “Atlantis” to Taiwan.
‘We Are But Your Children,’ a history of ManRay, arrives with hopes for a party at the reopened club
Pandemic conditions make for a bad moment to reopen ManRay in Central Square but an ideal time to read “We Are But Your Children: An Oral History of the Nightclub ManRay,” assembled out of conversations with 120 regulars at the legendary nightclub.
Mute swans, big, voracious, elegant and smart, may have survived through status as a royal meal
People first brought exotic mute swans to North America in the 1870s to decorate country estates, city parks and zoos, and those we see in Massachusetts today are probably descended from birds that escaped from New York – now considered an invasive species by many and huntable in most states.
Hot soup for cold times at ChoCho’s
With these subfreezing temps upon us, hot meals matter. One place to get your internal warmth in yummy fashion is ChoCho’s, the Korean eatery with its boiling crocks of soondubu tofu soup into which you drop a raw egg and let cook – like your own Sterno stove to warm your hands over.
Harvard Square home of a Painted Burro eatery will make perfect sense: old Border Cafe space
The Painted Burro, an upscale Mexican restaurant in Somerville’s Davis Square, is adding its fourth location in a place familiar to fans of the cuisine: the former home of the Border Cafe in Harvard Square.
Changes increasing bike safety in Porter Square remove parking, revive conflict from up the road
Plans in Porter Square call for the installation of quick-build flex posts separating cyclists from car traffic and the removal of significant numbers of parking spaces – similar to a project that brought months of anger and dispute farther north on Massachusetts Avenue.
Cambridge adds another testing site as Covid feels like a drop ‘from 150 mph to 100 mph’
Cambridge will add a fifth Covid-19 testing site next month, expecting a return to high demand for tests around the February school vacation period. A recent rapid fall in infections has city councillors asking when the coronavirus would stop being a crisis – but hearing that it’s no time soon.
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Family-owned Ferro’s Foodtown is selling, lifeline for thousands in surrounding units
Joe Ferro, owner of Foodtown and the attached Laundrytown, says a sale is being finalized now to buyers who “plan on running the store and keeping things the same,” though with “a bit of facelift to modern things up.” Residents hope it’s true.
Fans of the city golf course rally to keep it whole in one long comment period now due to repeat
The possibility of losing the Fresh Pond Golf Course inspired more than 30 people to speak in its defense at Monday’s meeting of the City Council, leading to new councillor Paul Toner’s first use of his “charter right” to set the issue aside for one regular meeting.
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Attend meetings on Porter Square bicycle lanes, reusing the golf course, staff searches and more
Public meetings this week look at golf course reuse, finding new city managers, clerks and auditors; updates on housing progress; a Youth Resource Officers Program; BioMed’s 585 Third St. tower in Kendall Square; bike lanes through Porter Square; and more.
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‘We Are But Your Children,’ a history of ManRay, arrives with hopes for a party at the reopened club
Covid case count is still high but dropping fast, suggesting omicron variant has passed its peak
Cambridge’s Covid-19 case rate apparently has peaked and is plunging as fast as it shot up in December, similar to the trend statewide. Yet the rate is still higher than at any time before the latest surge. And cases in long-term care and deaths have been rising while hospitals remain full.
Judge’s Covid question picks up a Cold War relic covered in dust: the city’s ‘civil defense agency’
A curiosity dating from the Cold War of the 1950s was unearthed Tuesday in court: Along with every “political subdivision” of the state, Cambridge is supposed to have an organization for civil defense, but the local one is defunct, according to a city official. Or just folded into the fire department, according to another.
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