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Living in Cambridge comes with more than just access to top-tier education, diverse neighborhoods, and vibrant culture. The City of Cambridge offers a robust selection of free and discounted programs designed to support residents’ financial, educational, environmental, and recreational needs. Whether you're a student, older adult, renter, or homeowner, there's likely a program available to help improve your well-being and quality of life. This latest issue of The Cambridge Life provides an overview of some valuable offerings residents new to the City to lifelong Cantabrigians should know about.

Picture a future where Cambridge residents are making sustainable energy choices. Let’s start now - install energy conversion devices on gym equipment and a rapid electric vehicle charging station.

Come to the Library for games and a different activity each week! Kids of all ages can hang out and do crafts or STEAM activities. No registration required. This week we will be making creepy crawly creatures with pipe cleaners!

The Environmental and Transportation Planning Division is responsible for improving the city's quality of life, by working to protect and improve the city's environment and natural resources and by planning improvements to the city's transportation system.

The CHA's mission is to develop and manage safe, good quality, affordable housing for low-income individuals and families in a manner which promotes citizenship, community and self-reliance in one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.

Join Central Square's cookbook club! This month, we're celebrating Halloween and cooking all things eerie, ghostly, and witchy! We have a selection of Halloween and fall cookbooks. Bring a dish to share or just come to talk about your experience with your chosen cookbook. Copies are available for pickup at the Branch. For questions, email Ruby (rvail@cambridgema.gov)

In observance of the Veterans’ Day holiday on Friday, November 11, City of Cambridge offices, libraries, and senior centers will be closed and payments will not be required at City of Cambridge parking meters and parking meter pay stations. Additionally, the offices at Cambridge Cemetery, 76 Coolidge Avenue, will be closed on the holiday, though the gates will be open from 7 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Curbside collection of trash, recycling, compost, and yard waste will be suspended on the holiday and one day behind schedule. Regularly scheduled street cleaning routes for Friday, November 11 will be cleaned on Monday, October 31.

The Cambridge Public Health Department is alerting residents that there has been a sharp rise in infants and children in Massachusetts seeking care for respiratory illnesses this fall. These illnesses include RSV, rhinovirus and enterovirus, and the flu.

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The campaign includes a website, “Well-Being” characters, and mental health resources.