If the T plaza at Porter Square and the stretch of Massachusetts Avenue around it look a bit trimmer and neater, thank a Porter Square and Massachusetts Avenue Cleanup that took place Saturday.
Among the items in the 2019 state budget signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on July 26: $50,000 for programs in Cambridge and Everett meant to teach engineering to children as young as 3.
Richelle A. Robinson, who died July 23 after an assault on Cambridge Street, will be buried at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Paul AME Church, with services made easier for her family through a show of love and sorrow on a crowdfunding campaign page.
Sam Bixler, a Denver native who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, died Feb. 14, 2018, after a struggle with complications of brain trauma caused when he was struck by a car while walking home on the morning of Jan. 13. He was 29.
More than $65,000 was raised Thursday at the Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School’s second Annual Bash, by turns lively and touching and called “a love fest for the high school, our many community supporters and supporters-to-be.”
The Kendall Square Association named C.A. Webb its president today. She said she arrives with plans in place to make the tech destination more welcoming to all, and with “more ambitious plans” that include helping improving mass transit to the square via the MBTA.
The pedestrian hit by a car last month – beloved high school history teacher and Cambridge resident Sam Bixler, 29 – died Wednesday after a struggle with the complications of brain trauma.
A celebration of life for Albert J. Gowan – in the words of the organizers, “Designer. Teacher. Writer. Singer. International man of mischief. Player of the long game. Uncle to all” – will be held Feb. 11 at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.
The film community in Cambridge and Boston dimmed Monday when Harvard Film Archive programmer David Pendleton, 52, passed away after a long battle with cancer.
The Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation will honor eight heroes killed in the line of duty, including late Cambridge resident Charles E. Bradley, at a memorial ceremony held noon Friday at Ashburton Park, next to the Massachusetts State House.