Grand Junction Connector path
Grand Junction Connector pop-up events, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday; and 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Community Development Department staff answer questions, take feedback and discuss ideas about the project – an accessible, off-road, multiuse path connection from Gore Street at Sixth Street in East Cambridge to the intersection of Rufo Road and McGrath Highway in Somerville, with the idea of ultimately making a path that links Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. At Gold Star Mother’s Park, 123 Gore St., East Cambridge.
Next for Riverview condominiums
221 Mount Auburn St. community meeting, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday. A follow-up to a July 10 meeting about the 66-home Riverview condominium building, which will be demolished after the discovery that flawed construction in the 1960s makes it likely to collapse. Traffic will be rerouted around dangerous areas of Mount Auburn and Sparks streets, and this meeting will give updates on the overall situation and traffic questions. We most recently wrote about the situation here. Online at bit.ly/4lwyxUl.
Narcan distribution event
Cambridge Public Health Department, 1 to 3 p.m. Friday. Free Narcan (the drug naloxone, which is capable of reversing overdoses), test strips, CPR face shields and other harm reduction materials will be made available at the Cambridge Public Library’s Central Square Branch, 45 Pearl St. For questions, email Danielle McPeak at dmcpeak@cambridgepublichealth.org.
City police on federal actions
Ordinance Committee, 1 p.m. Monday. This committee run by vice mayor Marc McGovern discusses updates to the city’s Welcoming City Ordinance that were asked for by city councillors to clarify that police and other city employees won’t participate in federal immigration enforcement operations – and that their sole role during action by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is to protect public safety. Councillors also want police responding to the scene of an Ice action to document the federal agents’ actions. Police unions are pushing back on whether they’d be seen as interfering with legal enforcement actions. The committee meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
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