Attend meetings on lower majorities for zoning, pool repair, MCAS tests and ice cream from a lab
Public meetings this week look at passing zoning more easily, and a Green New Deal; opting out of the MCAS test and a vocational education coalition; the Volpe redevelopment in Kendall Square; “missing middle” zoning; a Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream in Cambridgeport; and much more.
With faculty coming from closing Becker College, Lesley University moves into video game design
Lesley University is adding an interactive media program to its College of Art and Design starting in the fall, to be led by six faculty from the closing Becker College, Lesley announced Tuesday.
After allegations that threatened reputation, comedian points out trolls in the community
Allegations against comic Dana Jay Bein last spring might have done serious damage to his reputation if not for one thing: He was part of a live Zoom comedy show at the same time he was supposedly gaslighting a woman into a fake rendezvous and texting her toxic messages.
In overcoming obstacles of vaccination signups, parent volunteers were teachers’ secret weapon
At The Maria L. Baldwin School in the Agassiz neighborhood, the burden of educators struggling to find vaccination appointments online was lifted by an initiative led by parents Amanda Steenhuis, Nina Farouk and Angela Wong.
Attend meetings on easing way for businesses, real estate transfer fee, two new eateries, more
Public meetings this week look at surveillance technology, tear gas and why the Planning Board doesn’t like proposed green roofs zoning; bao coming to Central Square and felafel to Porter Square; an overhaul of what and where businesses can be; and enacting a real estate transfer fee.
Subcentral sounds like revival in Central Square for electronic music and DJ industry, education
A space for aspiring electronic music artists and studio producers called Subcentral launches this weekend in Central Square – just steps from where The Mmmmaven Project operated with a similar mission until April 2019.
Councillors express shock over ‘delay after delay’ around promised study of municipal broadband
Already angry over city staff’s slow, inadequate response about an acoustic music order dating back to 2017, city councillors complained Monday about a lack of action on an issue dating back to 2016: a municipal broadband feasibility study.
Main Library offers free printing for pickup
The Cambridge Main Library is testing a remote printing service that lets users upload documents to a website, then call to arrange pickup of their printouts during contactless holds pickup hours.
Showing technology change since CCTV moved, Somerville Media Center could use smaller space
A relocation for the Somerville Media Center that was threatened in 2019 is finally coming due, and its television, radio and podcasting studios and labs will have to be packed and moved by June 30.
School district budget process has new problem: Keeping virtual meetings on track after an attack
School district community budget meetings are off to a rocky start, with the first meeting Jan. 28 cut short when it was Zoombombed and a second meeting Saturday delayed as staff and the public wrestled with registration procedures put in place to safeguard against more disruptions.
