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Harvard’s ultimate frisbee founder ‘pulls’ alumni back after 50 years
Cross-legged on Cumnock Fields at Harvard University under a breezy, sunny sky, Sara Schechner told stories of playing ultimate frisbee during her high school days in the early 1970s in Maplewood, New Jersey. Schechner was a part of the group of students who created the now internationally recognized sport. She then founded the ultimate frisbee […]
Boys’ soccer defeats Wayland, achieves highest ranking in school history
Boys’ soccer: After suffering its first loss of the season on Oct. 6 to Lincoln-Sudbury, 3-2, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin boys’ soccer team (3-1-3) bounced back for a 3-1 defeat of Wayland on Thursday. The win moved the Falcons up to No. 4 in the MIAA Division I power rankings, the highest in school […]
Cambridge, Somerville vaccine clinics launch
Cambridge and Somerville have both announced the schedule for free public vaccine clinics for flu and COVID-19. Read more Pressley takes EZRide trip to promote transit Cambridge will have five clinics, starting today, Wednesday, at the Senior Center between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. The last one will be October 30 from 1 p.m. to […]
Pressley takes EZRide trip to promote transit
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) led a group of city councillors, interest group members and private partners onto an EZRide shuttle alongside commuters in an effort to keep the service free and running throughout the day. Read more Galiot Press marks one year of publishing genre-defying books Pressley said she took the shuttle “to demonstrate in […]
Galiot Press marks one year of publishing genre-defying books
Galiot Press is one year into publishing books. How does the Boston-area press fit into the publishing landscape?
Your view: Photos from Honk! Parade
Things were lively in Harvard Square Sunday, with the Harvard Square Business Association’s Oktoberfest, the 5th Annual Filipino American festival, plus the Honk! parade in its 21st edition and the subsequent mini-concerts around Harvard Square. (See our piece on the first 20 years of Honk!) Read more Huang rejects MWRA plan to permanently fence off […]
What should Harvard Square’s KiOSK be? A new residency model revives an old debate
On a recent Wednesday evening, a handful of strangers sat around a table inside the Harvard Square KiOSK, cutting up old magazines and turning the scraps into postcards. The free workshop, organized by local artist Missy Arellano, was one of five weekly sessions hosted this fall by the Radical Collage Collective, a group she founded. […]
Huang rejects MWRA plan to permanently fence off part of Magazine Beach
Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang on Friday formally rejected a proposal to permanently fence off 2.3 acres of Magazine Beach, calling the plan by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) “not a viable proposal.” Read more Affleck’s ‘Animals’ is a dog In a letter to Stephen Estes-Smargiassi, the MWRA’s interim executive director, Huang said the […]
Affleck’s ‘Animals’ is a dog
⭐⭐ Rating: 1.5 out of 4. Ben Affleck made it in Hollywood as an actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter, then proved to be a more-than-reliable filmmaker, with credits including “Gone Baby Gone,” “The Town” and the true-story espionage thriller “Argo” (2012), which won the Oscar for Best Picture. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for “Animals,” the […]
Why progressives should vote for a Republican for Treasurer
Disclaimer: Cambridge Day does not endorse candidates or positions. Views expressed in this column are those of the writer. Read more Rachel Morrison on grief, loss and her new movie Historically, progressives and Democratic voters have been basically one and the same, and with a few exceptions the choice was clear: progressives should vote for […]