Attend meetings on Starlight Square’s future, developer ‘linkage’ fees, better parks and more
Public meetings this week look at better parks and open spaces and citywide design guidelines, developer “linkage” fees for affordable housing, permitting for Starlight Square and more.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Dragon Boat festival to days of Juneteenth
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Boston Dragon Boat Festival and wrestling, celebrity readings and podcast recordings, poetry and music, opera and song cycles, but especially Juneteenth celebrations with events ranging from yoga to jazz and a Black Business Fair.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a new market in Harvard to SomerPride
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a new Harvard Square Open Market, readings by Bill McKibben and Sloane Crosley, crafting and carnivals, poetry, music and dance, art openings and group sings, a look at Cambridge firsts and a reading of our gravestones, drag and dragon boats, a lit crawl and a smut slam. And more.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Memorial Day music to a new Open Market
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Campfire. Festival continues, there’s a Memorial Day observance and Mozart concert to benefit Ukraine, authors and experts explore Asians in American Pop Culture and LGBT tales, you can meet a mini-horse, do some shopping, catch a CRLS “Chorus Line” for free – and much more.
Library hosting panel talk called ‘Central to It All,’ on Central Square and famed ManRay nightclub
Take a ride down memory lane with Shawn Driscoll, author of “We Are But Your Children: An Oral History of the Nightclub ManRay” and a panel of guests tonight at the Cambridge Main Library.
Liberation Libraries launch across Cambridge, elevating black and brown authors and readers
Liberation Libraries opened Tuesday at five locations across Cambridge, a special subset of the popular little free libraries already found around town that are filled with books by black and brown authors.
Housing authority is giving coronavirus test kits to employees; The first round caught 28 positives
The Cambridge Housing Authority has begun requiring employees who work in person to test themselves for coronavirus just before they start work, and it may have paid big dividends in preventing transmission of the virus. The requirement relies on employer-provided rapid antigen tests.
Covid cases hit 391 in a day, close library branch as city says 28% of its seniors lack booster shots
About 72 percent of fully vaccinated Cambridge residents 65 and older have received a third shot, according figures reported by the city for the first time Thursday, as 391 new cases of Covid were reported. The cases strained hospitals, nursing homes and even a library branch that will be closed for nearly a week.
Reopening of Collins branch library is delayed
The reopening of the Collins branch library in West Cambridge has been postponed due to delays in construction upgrades to the roof, gutters, and ventilation system begun Oct. 4.
O’Connell Library Pocket Park and Glacken Field open this weekend, made for reflection and play
Two parks open for public use at events this weekend in Cambridge: The O’Connell Library Pocket Park on Friday and the Glacken Field and Playground on Saturday.
