DCR work on improved Charles River parkland, Memorial Drive ‘road diet’ comes as soon as fall
Memorial Drive greenway work intended to improve recreation along the Charles River – including walking and bicycling paths – stretches from JFK street west to Hawthorn Street, ducking for now complications to the east.
Attend meetings in Somerville from March 7-14 about cheap Internet ending, a pot shop for Davis
Public meetings this week look at how aging affects driving skills, an affordable-Internet program’s end and a recreational pot shop proposed for Davis Square.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Sofiane Pamart, pies and St. Patrick’s Day
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an outdoors Parka Dance Party, comic book drag, music for St. Patrick’s Day, storytelling and brain science and visits from the Blind Boys of Alabama and Alan Cumming.
Jerry’s Pond reclamation project leaps forward with an approval by Conservation Commission
If Planning Board approval follows the commission’s, work reclaiming the pond is expected to begin this summer and be complete in the summer of 2025.
Sharp-shinned hawks, stalkers of the bird world, use all their tricks to gobble smaller prey whole
Ninety percent of a sharp-shinned hawk’s diet is small birds, from the size of a sparrow to the size of a robin, and the larger females might even prey upon a pigeon or dove. Adult hawks need to eat four or five birds each day.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from maple syrup and rap to academic surrender
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Domo Genesis and Sofiane Pamart perform, we boil down maple sap, juggle, sing opera about influencers, talk the “American Prometheus” and AI invades and Harvard explores “Institutional Neutrality in a Polarized World.”
‘Language, Like Letters’ rethinks how we read, making us think about how we understand it
Equal parts insightful and inscrutable, Lesley University’s “Language, Like Letters” exhibition is on view for just one more week at the Lunder Arts Center.
Eastern coyote maybe watching from the weeds succeeded through mixing with wolves and dogs
Eastern coyotes appear in a range of colors from dark brown to reddish to grayish and even white – from a recessive gene also found in golden retrievers like the one that in Newfoundland that ran off with a coyote in 2001 and was never seen again.
Attend meetings Feb. 23 to March 1 in Cambridge about adding more housing faster and Porter labs
Public meetings this week look at making more housing and making it more affordable, a decision on a plan to reclaim the fenced-off Jerry’s Pond, room for small tech at Porter Square and planning for the Massachusetts Avenue of 2040.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from games and Glow Show to puns and poetry
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, learn how to make sound effects, see a Glow Show with the MIT Spinning Arts Club, play a board game about Puerto Rico. take part in a pun competition and enjoy music, dance, storytelling and poetry.
