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.
Millers River tenant had own way to humidify, and it cost $31,000 to clear the resulting mold
Newly renovated apartments at the Millers River public housing development are sealed up tight to save energy – maybe too tight, for tenants who aren’t used to it.
City opens cooling center, notes other locations for residents during three days of extreme heat
The city has opened a cooling center during the extreme heats of this week and is welcoming residents to come cool down in certain city buildings as well.
More flexible heating and cooling was considered but not feasible in 2013, authority says with regret
The $32 million in renovations and energy-saving advances rolled out by the Cambridge Housing Authority at its Lyndon B. Johnson Apartments in 2013 now looks far from modern with the urgency of climate change, and the authority has had to adapt on the fly.
System offered heat instead of relief to tenants during 90-degree days, set pre-climate change
For three days of a heat wave in the past week, residents of LBJ Apartments, the public housing development for elderly and disabled tenants on Erie Street in Cambridgeport, sweltered in their homes without air conditioning as temperatures climbed above 90 degrees.
The meteorologists down the street can’t tell you about the weather in their institute’s hometown
Cambridge can seem like an afterthought (at best) to the academics who pass through, and even to those who are here for the long term as lecturers and residents.
Attend meetings on winter costs, mall makeover, getting independent legal advice for City Council
Public meetings this week look at independent counsel for elected officials, renter credit checks and the city’s winter expenses; design review on two lab buildings that will begin transforming the CambridgeSide mall; the city’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic; and an interim schools superintendent.
Attend meetings on single-family zoning law, snow removal, MIT dorm plan, Palmer Street
Public meetings this week look at snow removal, while the snow keeps falling; an Alewife Quadrangle zoning petition, continued; MIT plans for a grad student dorm; a possible end of zoning just for single-family housing; remaking Harvard Square’s Palmer Street; and more.
Burst pipes at Peter Valentine’s folk art home need a $50,000 fix, crowdfunding friends say
There’s trouble at Moose and Grizzly Bear’s Ville – the colorful public art project that is the home of the equally colorful Peter Valentine a few blocks below Central Square: Tuesday’s cold snap burst a radiator pipe, flooding the home’s first and second floors.
Parking bans end after snowfall that avoided worst expectations
A city snow emergency parking ban ended at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Cambridge and a half-hour later in Somerville for a storm that fell short of the threatened foot of snow.
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