September 2026
Home style Afghan food in a regal setting
In the years after 9/11, The Helmand, owned by the brother of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, drew curious diners who left well fed. The spotlight has dimmed, but the cozy restaurant, proudly decorated with Afghan artwork, still serves the same excellent food as it has for more than three decades. Read more Healthpeak gets […]
Healthpeak gets ok from Planning Board, moves to next hurdle
Healthpeak project clears planning board – but still has a long way to go.Holdups include MBTA study and leases that run until 2040. Read more Union Square Main Streets asks for SNAP support Last week, executives from real estate developer Healthpeak Properties received approval from Cambridge’s Planning Board for a sprawling mixed-use project in Alewife […]
Union Square Main Streets asks for SNAP support
Four out of every 10 neighbors are food insecure, according to the Greater Boston Food Bank — a staggering rate has more than doubled since 2019. Read more Health insurance set to rise again in 2027, locals feel squeezed I’ve seen this need firsthand while packing fresh food boxes at Food For Free, handing out […]
Health insurance set to rise again in 2027, locals feel squeezed
Cambridge residents and employers are heading into 2027 facing another year of steep health insurance increases, with state regulators approving a double-digit base premium increase for individual and small-group plans and national projections showing similarly sharp hikes in employer health benefit costs. Read more City and school district leaders to speak at panel for immigrant […]
City and school district leaders to speak at panel for immigrant students
Cambridge residents will hear from city and school district leaders about supporting immigrant students in the public schools at a Wednesday night panel. Read more Football team dominates for second straight week The event, hosted at Cambridge Public Library’s main branch, will feature a discussion with school district Superintendent David Murphy, Vice-Mayor Burhan Azeem and […]
Football team dominates for second straight week
The Cambridge Rindge and Latin football team (2-0) turned in another dominating performance on Friday with a 30-6 shellacking of Belmont. The Falcon offense was powered by big plays, with quarterback Max Batchelor throwing touchdown passes of 57, 75, and 66 yards — his only three completions of the night. Hugo Davis caught the first […]
Cambridge’s MCAS data improves overall, but gaps widen
More Cambridge Public School students are meeting or exceeding grade-level expectations compared to last year, even as the statewide trend moved in the opposite direction. Read more Drought eases for Cambridge, but it may need to buy water Data from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) showed 58% of Cambridge students in the third to […]
Drought eases for Cambridge, but it may need to buy water
Cambridge’s drought status has been downgraded from significant to mild following recent rainfall, but the city’s primary storage reservoir remains at just 20% capacity, raising the possibility that Cambridge may have to purchase supplemental water this fall or winter for the first time in a decade. Read more Cambridge, opportunity gaps, and the lie of […]
Cambridge, opportunity gaps, and the lie of the “Good School”
In the last 18 hours I have read and reread Nikole Hannah-Jones’s article on the New York public schools and Black children, in the same way I read Malcolm X’s autobiography when I first discovered it. Each pass forces me to confront my own academic journey and to sit with a hard reality that I now must outsource my own child’s cultural footprint, […]
Free library coding meetup grows into nonprofit Cambridge Dev Lab
An unemployed product manager, a Boston University computer science student, a former librarian and a man who hadn’t touched a computer in years gathered around the tables at the Cambridge Public Library on Monday evening. Read more Central Square’s Carl Barron Plaza set to reopen after 3 years They were among the participants, ages 20 […]