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Celebrate Pride Month with Drag Story Time at the Central Square Branch Library! Join us on Saturday, June 27 at 11 a.m. in the Lewis Room for songs and stories about what makes each of us fabulous. This program is for children and their caregivers. No registration required.

The 2020 Bicycle Network Vision will serve as the guide for a complete network of bike facilities that serve people of all ages and abilities.

This task force is working with City staff and a lighting consultant to evaluate existing standards, offer guidance for the creation of a new ordinance, propose new regulatory approaches if needed, and develop enforcement mechanism for outdoor lighting.

Need to get better at managing your money? Join the East Cambridge Savings Bank for a workshop on the importance of establishing and maintaining good credit. Thank you to the East Cambridge Savings Bank for sponsoring this program. Registration helpful.

Join local artist Missy Arellano and Still Life Studios for a postcard-making workshop where you’ll create one-of-a-kind messages for the people you care about.

Please join Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, MA, for a presentation about the history of slavery in the North, the origins of the Royall House and Slave Quarters and the importance of remembering hard histories. As one of the only remaining freestanding quarters where enslaved people lived and worked in the North, the Royall House and Slave Quarters bears witness to the lives of its residents, to the intertwined stories of wealth and bondage in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, and to the resistance and political and legal activism of enslaved and free Black people in the eighteenth century. The Cambridge Public Library is proud to offer passes to the museum during its tour season (June to October).

This program will happen outdoors at Donnelly Field. In case of inclement weather, it will occur in the gym at King Open School. Put on your dancing shoes for an unforgettable workshop of hula hoop magic with Kat Suwalski! You will learn basic hooping moves while increasing hand-eye coordination, strength, balance, and agility. No prior hooping experience is required. Hoops are provided. Recommended for children ages 5 and up and their caregivers. Funding for Summer Reading has been generously provided by the City of Cambridge, Cambridge Public Library Foundation, Friends of the Cambridge Public Library and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

The City of Cambridge is embarking on a citywide comprehensive planning process to create a shared vision for the city and its future. Through the citywide planning process, the City aims to develop policy and design goals and actionable recommendations to guide future change and promote the well-being of residents, businesses, and stakeholders in the midst of local, regional, and global trends. The citywide planning process aims to integrate and build upon the City’s existing policies, programs, and initiatives through an inclusive, wide-reaching process that looks beyond traditional planning efforts to guide future change in Cambridge.

Introducing the Reel Reads Book Group! Each month we read a book selection with a movie adaptation and discuss the relationship between the two and the merits and/or drawbacks of each. July selection: The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean & Adaptation (film) How to get the print book: Copies of the book are set aside at the O'Connell Branch. Click here for O'Connell Branch Hours This month’s book and movie may also be available digitally through Libby, Hoopla or Kanopy. This book group meets every other month, in person at the O'Connell Branch. Registration is helpful! For more information contact the branch at 617-349-4019.

This report presents the 2019 water quality monitoring results for three ponds on the Fresh Pond Reservation: Little Fresh Pond, Black’s Nook, and North Pond.