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The Cambridge Summer Food Program ensures that youth ages 18 and younger have access to free, nutritious meals while school is out of session. In 2024, the program served over 80,000 meals at parks, sports leagues, summer camps, and community events across the city. Beyond meals, the program offers recreational activities and literacy support, including weekly visits from the Cambridge Book Bike, making summer a time for both nourishment and enrichment.

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) will offer COVID-19 testing to all Cambridge residents via a stand-alone testing center at the CHA East Cambridge Care Center (163 Gore St., Cambridge). The service will launch on Friday, May 8. Cambridge residents eight years of age and older are welcome, regardless of insurance or immigration status. Individuals MUST CALL to set up an appointment using a new hotline number at 617-665-2928.

There will be traffic impacts across the greater Boston area due to Sumner Tunnel and the MBTA Red Line closures in July 2024.

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Cambridge Police charged Robert Sullivan, 42, unhoused with a last known address in Boston, following an arrest in Porter Square on Thursday for multiple offenses related to the unlawful possession of a firearm, trafficking of illegal narcotics, and stolen property.

The MBTA will be resuming Red Line closures the first and last weekends of June and they intend to have extended closures for more than two weeks in the second half of July.

In order to develop Cambridge Crossing, DivcoWest was required to make improvements to Monsignor O’Brien Highway from Third Street to Museum Way. These improvements have included subsurface and surface infrastructure upgrades. This section of Monsignor O’Brien Highway is being transformed from a highway into a tree lined boulevard with bicycle lanes/cycle tracks, new sidewalks and significantly improved pedestrian crossings. Due to the construction associated with the MBTA’s Green Line Extension (GLX) Project, these improvements have been phased over several years.

Join us on July 15th at First Street Market for a special presentation of Obscured Vision as part of Steep'd's deep listening-focused (in Sound) events.

Update the Central Square library and expand the variety of items for loan. Proposed enhancements are new furniture, a laptop kiosk, and fun, non-traditional items for loan. These improvements would benefit the neighborhood and community.