Though a dedication ceremony isn’t until Oct. 2, city staff said the 2-acre Timothy J. Toomey Jr. Park is open as of Monday on Rogers Street between Second and Third streets in East Cambridge.

A $25,000 grant to the Cambridge Camping Association from The Boston Foundation will provide summer camp and out-of-school enrichment experiences to youth from urban, under-resourced communities through the Foundation’s Open Door Grants program.

The nonprofit Cambridge Camping Association has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation, making it one of 140 local nonprofits surviving a competitive review process that began with 590 applicants.

When Teresa Burns, executive director at The Cambridge Homes Independent and Assisted Living, got her son’s deployment date overseas, she acted to ensure his entire unit would have essential travel items.

Draper, a Kendall Square engineering innovation company, teamed up with the Cambridge Fire Department for an annual Toys for Tots drive, continuing a 15-year tradition.

The Cambridge Community Foundation and its donors have awarded $944,378 in grants this spring, with $692,878 going to 93 local nonprofits and to scholarships.

The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce’s Carl and Ruth Barron Scholarship is back, offering $5,000 to each of two Cantabrigian students graduating from high school this spring and headed straight to college.

With our local St. Paul’s Church Choir School turning 50, a model for its musical and academic tradition – The Vienna Boys Choir – comes to town Friday to celebrate.

A Michigan man and woman have been charged under the state’s new human trafficking law with bringing two underage girls to Cambridge as prostitutes, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said Tuesday.

State Rep. and city councillor Marjorie Decker was honored April 29 at Riverside Community Care’s 22nd Annual Appreciation evening for her work on issues of domestic violence.