These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City Calendar and in the city’s Open Meetings Portal.
Registration for primary elections
Election Commission, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Are you registered to vote for the Sept. 3 primary election? This is the last date to do it. In-person registration is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the commission’s offices at 51 Inman St., Mid-Cambridge; online registration must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Early voting begins the same day at Somerville City Hall and runs through Aug. 30.
Overdose Awareness Day event
International Overdose Awareness Day, 1:30 to 4 p.m. Aug. 29. Remember loved ones lost to addiction and get materials on harm reduction and health promotion from the Cambridge Public Health Department, the Access Drug User Health Program, the Cambridge Care Team – part of the city’s unarmed responders known as the Community Safety Department – and Cambridge police at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square.
Looking ahead to Labor Day
Labor Day closings and service changes, Sept 2. In observance of the Labor Day holiday, city offices, libraries and senior centers will close and payments won’t be needed at parking meters and parking meter pay stations. Curbside collection of trash, recycling, compost and yard waste will be suspended on the holiday and run one day behind schedule for the rest of that week; street cleaning routes scheduled for the first Monday in September will be swept on Aug. 29 instead. The gates at Cambridge Cemetery, 76 Coolidge Ave., West Cambridge, will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Cambridge Public School talk
Community conversation, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4. Interim Cambridge Public Schools superintendent David Murphy sits to discuss progress, challenges and concerns in the district. The event is sponsored by My Brother’s Keeper Cambridge and moderated by Tony Clark in the theater of the King Open/Cambridge Street Upper School & Community Complex, 840 Cambridge St., Wellington-Harrington.
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