Attend meetings on buying land around Alewife, keeping options for remote speaking and more
Public meetings this week look at buying land in Alewife, updating green space, keeping options for remote speaking at City Council and School Committee meetings, a boutique hotel proposal and improvements to The Port neighborhood.
Among the dramatically dwindled cases of Covid, those under 20 account for most infections in city
Cambridge residents under 20 have become the age group making up the largest share of new Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, although overall numbers are tiny. For months before now, people in their 20s had accounted for more new infections than any other age group.
System offered heat instead of relief to tenants during 90-degree days, set pre-climate change
For three days of a heat wave in the past week, residents of LBJ Apartments, the public housing development for elderly and disabled tenants on Erie Street in Cambridgeport, sweltered in their homes without air conditioning as temperatures climbed above 90 degrees.
Police: Man is stabbed nonfatally in the forehead, suspect already taken into custody on a warrant
A Cambridge resident in his mid-20s was taken to a local hospital early Thursday after sustaining a non-life-threatening stab wound to his forehead near Central Square.
Pace of bike lane construction has city on track toward meeting Cycling Safety Ordinance goal
The city completed construction of 2.4 miles of separated bike lanes and started work on another 1.7 in the 12 months beginning May 2020, for a total of 4.1 miles of construction, and is at work on another 4.9 miles through May 2022.
Vaccinations of older teens lag in Cambridge; Manager says of Covid-19, time to ‘move on’
Covid-19 case rates have sunk to the low single digits and 70 percent of Cambridge residents have received at least one shot of vaccine, though there is some concern around vaccination rates among 16- to 19-year-olds.
Pandemic eviction moratoriums near the end, with officials citing efforts to help the at-risk
As the city’s eviction moratorium nears its end on June 15, officials say they have tried to help tenants tap into state and local aid, while the city has distributed $4.6 million in financial aid for rent and other expenses to more than 1,700 households.
Libraries’ slow reopening locks out residents who need to escape heat wave, councillors say
City officials have been feeling the heat about reopening the public library system after a long coronavirus shutdown but can accelerate the process only so much despite the actual, 90-degree heats of the past few days, city councillors learned.
Alternative policing proposal for ‘Heart’ unit passes City Council with hopes for fast action
A citizen-generated model for a public safety unit apart from the Cambridge Police Department was approved in a Monday vote by the City Council, whose members expressed optimism it could coexist with a second model proposed by a city task force.
Attend meetings on acoustic music, police plan, cutting small-business fees and a Cantab return
Public meetings this week look at, well, what public meetings will look like after the pandemic, a proposal for a new kind of public safety and enacting an acoustic music law; cutting small-business permitting and licensing fees; “missing middle” zoning; and the return of the Cantab Lounge.
