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Cambridge City Manager Louis A. DePasquale is seeking applicants to serve on a review group for the City of Cambridge’s Cemetery Master Plan process.

Curbside collections will be suspended on Monday, February 15, 2021 in observance of the President’s Day holiday. Curbside collection of trash, recycling, and compost will be one day behind schedule for the rest of that week. Street cleaning is suspended for the winter season and resumes in April 2021.

The City of Cambridge announced the reopening of the Clarendon Avenue Playground in North Cambridge.

The City of Cambridge is pleased to announce that it has successfully reduced its recycling contamination from 11% in 2018 to 4% in 2020.

Learn more about the City's Trenchless Sewer Rehab Program.

In observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday on Monday, January 18, city offices, including all library locations, will be closed. There will be no curbside collection service and payments at parking meters and parking pay stations will not be required.

Once the snow and ice are gone, salt and deicing agents remain and run over driveways, sidewalks and roads and into the nearest catch basin, contaminating waterways.

There will be regular curbside trash, recycling, and yard waste collection on Thursday, December 24, 2020, but no curbside collections on Friday, December 25, 2020. Collections will be delayed one day for the remainder of the week.

In accordance with the conditions of the Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Alewife Brook/Upper Mystic River Variance, we are hereby notifying you that a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) occurred at CAM401B on DECEMBER 1, 2020 AT 12:35 AM and discharged into the Alewife Brook.

Trash will be collection on Saturday 12/5. Recycling and Yard Waste will be collected on the normal schedule.