Community
Cambridge halves participatory budgeting to $500,000 as 13th annual cycle kicks off
Cambridge’s annual participatory budgeting process is kicking off again, giving residents another chance to decide how the city spends public money, though this year they’ll have only half as much to work with. Read more Cambridge launches first civic assembly to weigh ShotSpotter, surveillance technology The city opened idea submissions for its 13th participatory budgeting […]
At 103, Holocaust survivor and longtime Cantabrigian Kitty Haas is not ready to die
Using her walker, a small woman plods into the dining room at The Cambridge Homes. Her undereyes sag, affecting an illusion that she is constantly looking up. When she finally reaches the table, she is heaving for air, grunting a little. Still her physical struggle seems shockingly minimal upon the realization that she is nearly […]
At Riverside Press Park, the garden has a new steward and a public kitchen
Every Sunday afternoon at Riverside Press Park, a group of local volunteers gathers to work in the garden. They begin by harvesting vegetables, then they spray diseased plants with a natural pesticide. They water over 20 raised garden beds before picking fresh flowers and weeding. The workday ends with planting new seeds. Read more After […]
After devastating blaze, Cambridge church has plan for rebuilding
On the first Easter Sunday of the COVID-19 pandemic, Faith Lutheran Church, which worshipped out of a three-story wood building at 311 Broadway Street, in Cambridge, put up a large banner in its front garden. ‘We Will Rise,’ it said — a nod to both the hardships of lockdown and to the central Easter story. Read […]
Grabbing a Bite with Ran Bechor
One in a series of conversations with some of our many noteworthy neighbors — people who call the city home or head this way to work or study. We grab a bite, talk shop, learn more about why Cambridge, and shoot the proverbial … well, you know. Read more Civic assemblies, common in Europe, have […]
Patrick John Filer
Patrick John Filer was born at 9:24 pm on May 13, 2026, to the surprise of his parents, who hadn’t expected him for another two weeks. Born at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Patrick weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces and measured 50 cm long. His parents, Michelle Filer and Michael Lee of North Cambridge, […]
Lights! Cambridge! Action! Local youth build skills at Summer Media Institute
Programs like Cambridge Community Television’s (CCTV) Summer Media Institute are few and far between in an increasingly challenging job market for young people. The paid summer art program for teenagers is now in its 36th year, and will graduate 27 middle and high schoolers at the end of this summer with proficiencies in professional media […]
Somerville libraries receive Carnegie Foundation grants
In an echo of their founding, all three Somerville Public Library branches received grants from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. The Foundation gave $10,000 each to every library originally funded by Carnegie, an industrialist and philanthropist who died in 1919, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Read more […]
Azeem appeals for help for father-in-law
Burhan Azeem disclosed Sunday that his father-in-law has a Stage IV cancer that has spread to his brain but did not originate there. Read more Cambridge, Somerville climate tech incubators receive state grants Azeem, Cambridge’s vice mayor and a candidate for state Senate, shared the news in an emailed campaign update whose subject line read […]
Minister at St. Augustine’s is ousted, barred from the building
Local nonprofit and religious leaders who have collaborated to restore St. Augustine’s African Orthodox Church in the heart of Cambridgeport have succeeded in reimagining it as a place for congregating not just around faith, but also “arts, community knowledge, and connection.” But now, they are dealing with shocking allegations about the man who has led […]