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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 […]
Peace and fellowship mark interfaith Sukkot gathering
In the first of several planned collaborations between the two communities, the Jewish congregation of Eitz Chayim hosted members of the Islamic Society of Boston on Wednesday, Sept. 30, for an evening of open-hearted, high-spirited interfaith learning about the Jewish festival of Sukkot. Read more Cambridge selects 40-person panel for ShotSpotter civic assembly A weeklong […]
Cat tour draws hundreds of ‘CATabridgians’ to Cambridgeport
Hundreds of people and their cats filled the streets of Cambridgeport Saturday afternoon for the first annual Cambridge Cat Tour, a city-backed event that drew far more attendees than organizers expected. Read more YWCA Cambridge celebrates local women making a difference In honor of Meet Your Neighbor Month in September, Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui collaborated with […]
YWCA Cambridge celebrates local women making a difference
The Young Women’s Christian Association of Cambridge held its 31st Annual Tribute to Outstanding Women, honoring five women for their impact in the community, and fundraising for its housing, youth, and community programming. The honorees were Jennifer Fang, Yvonne Gittens, Jennie Kwo, Ayesha Wilson and Nevaeha King. Read more Crowds flock to Charlie’s Kitchen sidewalk […]
Grabbing a Bite with Cambridge Day: Simon Stansbury
Years before AI occupied our headlines and our headspace, Cambridge-based technology strategist, consultant and former robotics guru. Simon Mueller Stansbury had his mind turned toward the future. He is even more attuned to future-gazing these days, sometimes in excitement, but more often with concern. How fitting, then, that he chose Veggie Galaxy, Central Square’s long-standing […]
Timmins hits 55 (years) teaching drivers ed in Cambridge
Lissa Galluccio still remembers the time in driver’s ed when she ran over someone’s skateboard after letting off the brake at a stop. She went from overconfident 16-year-old to “freaking out,” she said. But her instructor, Bill Timmins, kept his cool and turned it into a simple lesson she’s never forgotten — don’t let off […]
Cambridge STEAM Initiative calling for funding proposals from math nonprofits
The City of Cambridge will divide $70,000 in funding to selected nonprofit math enrichment programs over the course of the next year. Read more Local scientists air concerns about federal funding losses in Arlington town hall Each selected organization can receive up to $25,000 in its first funding year, with the potential to receive an […]
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 […]