Housing Authority joins demands for vaccination among staff or testing on ‘their dime, their time’
Another public agency in the city, the Cambridge Housing Authority, will require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, joining major employers such as the Cambridge Health Alliance, Mount Auburn Hospital, the city’s three nursing homes and two major universities.
Police investigate gunfire on Pemberton Street (updated)
Police responded to a shooting reported at 5:53 p.m. Wednesday on the 100 block of Pemberton Street in North Cambridge near Porter Square. A vehicle was hit by gunfire but there are no known injuries, police said.
City’s hospitals join a shift to vaccine mandates; Cambridge government offices remain holdout
Cambridge’s hospitals have now set deadlines for staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and the city’s nursing homes are under orders to have all their employees immunized by Oct. 10. The city, though, maintains a policy of encouraging but not requiring vaccination for its workforce,
Heavy-duty weaponry is taken from teens in Port after police hear word of an escalating argument
What might have become another in a series of gunfire incidents afflicting the Port neighborhood instead ended with the recovery of two loaded firearms and the arrest of two teens.
Cambridge grew far faster than Massachusetts, Census data shows, powered by people of color
Big increases in the number of people of color living in Cambridge, particularly Asians, fueled a sharp rise in the city’s population between 2010 and 2020, according to U.S. Census figures announced Aug. 12. The total population increased by 13,241, or 12.6 percent, to 118,403.
Covid testing rises on ‘breakthrough,’ delta fears; City Hall masks up but lacks some health staffers
With Covid-19 cases continuing to climb in Cambridge, most reportedly caused by the highly infectious delta variant, the city on Thursday mandated masks for employees and visitors in all city buildings.
Elow is named as acting police commissioner; Cantabrigian and Navy vet joined force in 1995
Superintendent Christine Elow has been named acting commissioner of the Cambridge Police Department, effective Saturday. She takes over for Branville G. Bard Jr. as he leaves for a role with Johns Hopkins University after leading the department for four years.
While people keep dying on MBTA property, force pays official $178,190 for ‘easier’ work
The MBTA Transit Police pays $178,190 annually to Supt. Richard Sullivan to serve as a media representative who does not take questions from the media, even as people keep dying on MBTA property.
Suspect in nail salon robbery and carjacking taken into custody by police for arraignment
A Cambridge man was taken into custody without incident early Tuesday for quick arraignment in Cambridge District Court on charges of armed robbery and armed carjacking.
Police find missing visitor from Vermont (updated)
Police were trying to find a missing man Sunday, a visitor from Vermont named Aveyen Farneth. He was last seen at his sister’s home in Mid-Cambridge.
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