Attend meetings on reparations, name changes, police technology and aging elementary schools
Public meetings this week look at reparations through cannabis revenue, name changes to the Agassiz neighborhood and Central Square branch library, police surveillance technology that worries civil libertarians, aging elementary schools, tree tear-downs and much more.
After 3.5 years away, Toscanini’s ice cream expects to reopen this summer near Central
Toscanini’s ice cream is looking to reopen in Lafayette Square at the end of July or beginning of August, making it 3.5 years after closing there for construction of the boutique hotel 907 Main.
North Point to get 12-story life-science building, MIT buys gas station, advances its Kendall tower
Plenty has been going on in development this spring, including an environmentally focused building planned for North Point’s Parcel U, a slew of MIT moves and more on BioMed Realty’s push into Somerville.
Foundry is bringing on its executive director, resident with museum and equity experience
The Foundry community building is expected to open to the public in the summer of 2022, but it already has an executive director in Diana Navarrete-Rackauckas, who begins work full time this August.
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.
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.
Public’s help asked to solve animal cruelty death; Cat in East Cambridge was bound, shot with BBs
The public is being asked to help identify the person who tortured and killed a cat found Thursday near Hurley and Sciarappa streets in East Cambridge.
East Cambridge Planning Team votes in directors and president: Gentili, Hinds, Peeples and Simha
East Cambridge Planning Team voting has elected four people to its board of directors and reelected president Chuck Hinds.
Cocaine trafficking cited in two suspects’ charges from East Cambridge nonfatal shooting March 2
A March 2 shooting in East Cambridge has led to arrests against two Boston men and drug trafficking charges related to the incident.
Attend meetings on winter costs, mall makeover, getting independent legal advice for City Council
Public meetings this week look at independent counsel for elected officials, renter credit checks and the city’s winter expenses; design review on two lab buildings that will begin transforming the CambridgeSide mall; the city’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic; and an interim schools superintendent.
