OpenAir Circus invites students to sessions starting June 18; mime is now on the roster
The OpenAir Circus of Somerville, Cambridge and surrounding communities plans its latest season in a nearly 40-year history, welcoming all to learn its skills.
Giveaways from garden club encourages planting helpful native plants, part of a nationwide effort
The Cambridge Plant & Garden Club is organizing events over the next months to bring attention to the critical role native plants play in supporting a healthy environment and thriving wildlife and pollinator populations. The first is Saturday.
Donations are needed now for Cambridge Day
Cambridge Day is getting help toward long-term survival as a news source from a group of citizens, the Cambridge Local News Matters Advisory Board.
Danehy Gateway Pavilion for Cambridge sports would begin parkland construction in January
Cambridge plans to build a 5,800-square-foot Danehy Gateway Pavilion for high school sports teams – including restrooms, changing and locker rooms that can resolve continued complaints of a lack of equity for female athletes.
Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School presents $9,296 in faculty innovation grants
Equipment for student experiments with gravity and velocity and a library of graphic novels for a comic studies elective are among the projects made possible by the year’s Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Faculty Innovation Grants.
Artist’s images for Harvard Square’s Starbucks: Collage that returns Out of Town News to plaza
The Starbucks that returned to Harvard Square in November is bringing back the Out of Town newsstand, at least in the form of two new artworks by Betsy Silverman.
East Cambridge’s Toomey Park opens to public with fields, sledding hill, dog run and play areas
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.
Cambridge Camping receives a $25,000 boost from the Boston Foundation for kids’ activities
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.
Grant of $250,000 to Cambridge Camping means additional week of summer camp for special kids
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.
Senior communities rallied from Cambridge, supporting troops with care packages for 975
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.
