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.
Bracing for storm with up to 1 foot of snowfall, city says parking ban will start in the afternoon (updated)
A nor’easter following the mid-Atlantic coast was expected to dump anywhere from 6 inches to a foot of snow on the Cambridge area “later Monday morning,” Accuweather forecasters said Sunday, and the city announced its first snow emergency parking ban of the year.
Parking returns to normal Friday after nor’easter with no more snowfall expected until Christmas
A city snow emergency parking ban for an overnight nor’easter, which dropped some 13.4 inches of snow as of Thursday afternoon, ends at 8 a.m. Friday.
Snow emergency starts at 8 p.m.
A city snow emergency parking ban begins at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Around a foot of snow is expected through Thursday morning.
Education official organizes hurricane relief benefiting a former hometown in Louisiana
A Hurricane Laura Relief Effort for North Lake Charles, Louisiana, has been launched by School Committee vice chair Manikka Bowman.
Education official organizes hurricane relief benefiting a former hometown in Louisiana
A Hurricane Laura Relief Effort for North Lake Charles, Louisiana, has been launched by School Committee vice chair Manikka Bowman.
Port Infrastructure Project needs volunteers
The city is looking for volunteers to serve on a new working group to guide the Port Infrastructure Project, which will make more than $35 million in improvements.
Watch City Council talk safety, food delivery fees, School Committee hold a 2021 budget workshop
City councillors have an order this week that might bring enforcement of mask-wearing outside the home, seek to get their committees back to work and consider a cap on third-party food delivery fees, while the School Committee continues to work through details of its upcoming district budget.
