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6/24/25: This event is still on, but will be modified due to the extreme heat. Join us INDOORS at the O'Neill Branch to celebrate the end of the school year and the start of the summer! We will have food (INDOORS AND OUTDOORS), games and art. No registration is required. All ages are welcome!

Join Central Square's new cookbook club! This month, we're cooking from Tasting History: Explore the Past Through 4,000 Years of Recipes by Max Miller with Ann Volkwein. 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)

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)

Learn the basics of using binoculars to bring distant wonders into view! We will start outside (weather permitting), and then move inside for a story time. Binoculars will be provided. Meet the librarian under the shade of the trees that are to your right as you walk towards the library. Recommended for ages 5 and up with a caregiver.

Join Central Square's new Horror Book Club. We're exploring horror in all forms -- classic horror, queer horror, ghost stories, and more! This month, we're reading Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Copies are available for pickup at the branch, on Libby and Hoopla, and on Project Gutenberg. For questions, contact Ruby: rvail@cambridgema.gov.

People of all ages who enjoy children's books can read and discuss together. Food will be provided. This month we will read and discuss Chris Makes a Friend by Alex Gino. Copies are available at the O'Neill Branch. This book group will meet in person at the O'Neill Branch Library. Please register below.

People of all ages who enjoy children's books can read and discuss together. Snacks will be provided. This month we will read and discuss The Aquanaut by Dan Santat. Copies are available at the O'Neill Branch Library. This book group will meet in person at the O'Neill Branch Library. Please register below.

People of all ages who enjoy children's books can read and discuss together. Food will be provided. This month we will read and discuss Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Copies are available at the O'Neill Branch. This book group will meet in person at the O'Neill Branch Library. Please register below.

In observance of the Labor Day holiday, City of Cambridge offices, libraries, and senior centers will be closed on Monday, September 5, and payments will not be required at parking meters and parking meter pay stations. The offices at Cambridge Cemetery, 76 Coolidge Avenue, will also be closed on the holiday, however, the cemetery gates will be open from 7 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

The Clarendon Avenue Playground will undergo targeted repair work and equipment upgrades to improve play conditions for and the safety of its users.