This Week in NeighborMedia: a recap of the week's captivating Cambridge stories produced by NeighborMedia correspondents at Cambridge Community Television.
Mark Jaquith presents the East Cambridge Planning Team's plan for the redevelopment of Lechmere Square.
Mary Holbrow reviews the new Cambridge...
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University, Education
By Karen Klinger
While it is still mostly prohibited to pahk the cah in the Harvard Yard, some changes have come to the university’s signature piece of greenery this fall, as anyone who has walked through it recently could attest.
At the instigation of Harvard President Drew Faust and a committee...
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University, Education
Martha Sandler of Somerville has been named Executive Director of On The Rise, Inc., a day program for women who are homeless or in crisis. On The Rise is at 341 Broadway, Cambridge.
Board President Carol Goss made the announcement on behalf of the program, which serves more than 300 women from...
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Employment, Housing, University, Government, Women, Business, Education, Neighborhoods, People, Politics
By Karen Klinger
When it started two years ago as the first event of its kind in the United States, not even its creators could have foreseen the mushrooming popularity of the Cambridge Science Festival, which kicked off its third year April 25 with an activity-packed “carnival” at MIT.
The event...
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Schools, Environment, Dance, University, Music, Performance, Education, Nature, Politics, Science, Technology
By Karen Klinger
While the nation’s economic crisis has been tough even for the world’s wealthiest university, critics say layoffs of some of Harvard University’s lowest-paid workers in response to its staggering investment losses make as much sense as trying to bail out a listing ship with a...
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Employment, University, Education, People, Politics
By Karen Klinger
Janitor Bedardo Sola and barber Fred Iannacone have never met, but they have something in common: a reliance on the world’s richest university for their livelihoods.
As they have discovered, that is not necessarily a good thing.
For the past five years, Sola has cleaned rooms at...
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Employment, University, Business, Neighborhoods, Politics