Outside legal advice for council would be added onto Law Department budget, with more staff
Questions remain after a Tuesday budget hearing around city councillors getting legal advice outside the city’s Law Department, which also serves the city manager and has been slow and off-topic in several responses over the past several years.
‘Heartbreaking’ news of a student’s passing shared by district, second at CRLS within 2021
News of high school senior Jenna Santos’ death was shared Wednesday with the Cambridge Public Schools community.
Reward to catch cat killer rises to nearly $8,000 with help of crowdfunding set up by a neighbor
The reward for helping identify the person who tortured and killed a cat last week in East Cambridge has reached nearly $8,000 as of Wednesday night, including crowdfunding contributions meant to add to money offered by animal control and law enforcement officials.
Cambridge teen charged after firearm, pot found
Arlington police arrested a 17-year-old from Cambridge on firearm and motor vehicle charges Tuesday after an attempted traffic stop.
Information on police accountability tool elusive as budget hearing escalates over defunding effort
City officials didn’t give an expected arrival date at a budget hearing for a public dashboard that measures possible racial profiling and other race-based disparate treatment by police. Some of the hearing debated efforts to shift some police functions to other areas such as human services.
After-school worker facing charges of child porn sentenced to five years in prison after guilty plea
A Cambridge man will serve five years in prison and five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography.
Filling deputy city manager office ‘in discussion’ though clock is running on change in the top job
Whether to hire a deputy city manager remains “in discussion” more than 3.5 months after the departure of Lisa Peterson from the role, City Manager Louis A. DePasquale said Tuesday at a municipal budget hearing.
Vaccinations for students are being prepared, with clinic expected to come to the high school
The Cambridge Public Health Department is preparing a plan to vaccinate students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School as soon as Wednesday, once federal officials give final approval to administer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to adolescents from 12 to 15 years old.
Full-time, in-person classes back at high school with 47% of students opting in, officials report
The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School welcomed students to full-time, in-person classes Monday, one week ahead of the mandated reopening of all high schools issued by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in late April.
Gunshots in The Port injure Watertown man
Police are investigating gunfire that left one man seriously injured at around 2:16 a.m. Monday on the 100 block of Harvard Street in The Port.
