Housing Authority sweats to manage factors nudging costs at Jefferson Park ever higher
The $905,000-per-unit price tag for building a new Jefferson Park Federal public housing development is going up even more, and the project will take longer to finish.
‘Tridemic’ of flu, Covid, RSV fills hospital beds, leaving none left in Cambridge for its children
Cambridge’s two hospitals don’t offer any medical beds for children, and doctors face an “extraordinary problem” finding hospital care for kids amid spiking respiratory infections and staff shortages statewide, a top city public health official said Monday.
More equity and inclusion in after-school seats, but little progress toward offering option for all
The city’s Community Schools program provides after-school care to about 725 children, many more black and from low- and moderate-income families as of this school year, but nearly 300 are still on a waiting list, including 41 in high-priority categories.
Cambridge Half Marathon ran short of water, straining runners during unusually hot event
Organizers of Sunday’s half-marathon road race in Cambridge are investigating how the event ran out of cups at some water stops and water bottles at the finish line on a day temperatures climbed into the high 70s. The problems temporarily left some runners without much-needed water.
In a sign of worsening mental health challenges, teen ward will be strengthened against violence
A tangle of problems such as staff shortages, lack of beds and scarce services have left troubled patients with long delays or no treatment. Aggressive behavior is one result.
Covid case counts get murkier with less data; Masking policies become harder to pin down
Cambridge public health officials have stopped relying on Covid case counts to assess the strength of the pandemic here because those numbers are no longer reliable.
Debunking fake tales of hospital Covid ‘bribes’: Families have no say in setting a cause of death
A conspiracy theory that medical authorities are inflating the Covid-19 death toll has persisted since early in the pandemic. Cambridge isn’t immune to the misinformation.
New Squirrelwood passive green space takes root to replace trees wrongly removed for bicycle pods
Newly planted saplings are growing in a small lot in The Port neighborhood where an affordable-housing developer cut down mature trees a year ago to make room for bike storage, after telling city zoning regulators there were no trees there.
School district eases measures of class air quality
After extensively upgrading school ventilation starting in 2020 to prevent Covid-19 transmission, Cambridge Public Schools have changed how it’s monitored.
Covid cases are ticking up in homes for elderly, where staff has until Dec. 1 to get fully boosted
The number of new Covid-19 infections continues to mount in some Cambridge nursing homes and assisted-living centers, where residents face high risk because of age and poor health. after months when there were few in long-term care facilities here.
