Cookbook Club and Community Potluck (Central Square)
Join Central Square's cookbook club! This month, we're cooking from Everything's Good: Cozy Classics You'll Cook Always and Forever: A Cookbook by Toni Chapman. Bring a dish to share or just come to talk about your experience with this cookbook.
Copies are available for pickup at the Branch.
For questions, email Ruby (rvail@cambridgema.gov)
Prevention Strategies
We view all attempts to educate, promote healing, and support the economic stability of individuals and communities as prevention strategies. To that end, we support organizations who already do this work to incorporate conversations about DGBV and skill building around healthy conflict and communication. We promote strategies that will not cause further harm to communities in their attempt to help.
Pollinator Stories: How Native Gardens Build Community (O'Neill)
Join S-Cube Diplomacy and the O’Neill Branch Library for a multigenerational STEAM program exploring how plants, pollinators, soil, and people work together in a healthy native garden. Families, youth, adult learners, and community members will learn how pollinator gardens support biodiversity, climate awareness, and neighborhood connection through storytelling, observation, and hands-on reflection.
Response POR 20-41 - Alternative Public Safety Crisis Response System
Response to Cambridge City Council Awaiting Report Item Number 20-41, regarding a report on the feasibility of an alternative Public Safety Crisis Response System, received from Police Commissioner Branville G. Bard, Assistant City Manager for Human Services Ellen Semonoff, Chief Public Health
Officer Claude Jacob and Director of Emergency Communications Christina Giacobbe.
Green Jobs Career Fair
Are you interested in learning about green jobs? Would you like to connect with local employers and training providers? Attend the Green Jobs Career Fair on Wednesday, June 3 at Joan Lorentz Park, 449 Broadway, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.! This free event is open to Cambridge teens (ages 14 and older) and adult residents who want to explore local green job pathways.
Raymond Park Renovation Project
Raymond Park, located at 106 Raymond Street in Neighborhood Nine, is scheduled for renovations beginning in November 2025. Planned improvements include:
Improved circulation and more accessible pathways
New playground equipment
An expanded basketball court
Drainage improvements and rain gardens
Additional seating and gathering areas
New trees and plantings
Learn more about the community and design process here.
Evening Story Time
We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for our monthly evening story time event. This program will run for 20-25 minutes, with songs, stories and rhymes. No registration is required.
Due to Early Voting at Valente, this program will be held in the Children's Area. Please call 617-349-4015 for more information.
Tween STEAM (Main Library)
Interested in technology and art? Join Tween STEAM to learn how to use circuits to make light up cards, build LEGO cities, or use brush bots to paint abstract art. Every month, there’s something new to make! Program begins at 5:30 p.m., and tickets are available at the desk. Please call 617-349-4038 for more information.
Fandom Days: Minecraft
Join us at the Main Library to celebrate your favorite fandoms! We're throwing a Minecraft party, where you can make Minecraft themed crafts, get snacks, and play Minecraft trivia! Grab your diamond axe, saddle up your chicken, and get ready to mine.
This program is intended for ages 9 - 12. For more information, contact Ellen Kaluza at ekaluza@cambridgema.gov.