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Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Hetty Lui McKinnon—James Beard Award-winning food writer and cook—for a discussion of her new cookbook Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savor. She will be joined in conversation by Irene Li—founder of Mei Mei Dumpling Company in South Boston and author of the cookbook Perfectly Good Food. Registration is required.

Learn the ins an outs of book collecting, what to collect, how to identify certain types of books, the most important considerations, and how to buy.

Increase on-time trips and reduce bus commuter transit times for the #1 Bus on Massachusetts Avenue by installing a Transit Signal Priority system at intersections allowing buses to extend green lights to get through traffic faster.

Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Molly Jong-Fast—contributing writer at Vanity Fair, political analyst at MSNBC News, and host of the podcast “Fast Politics”—for a discussion of her new book How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir. She will be joined in conversation by Laura Zigman—author of six novels, including the bestsellers Small World, Separation Anxiety, and Animal Husbandry. Registration is required.

The City of Cambridge issues a number of licenses related to the resale of goods including, second hand goods, antique shops, and auctioneers.

Residents guide to waste collection

The Community Learning Center (CLC) works to create pathways for current students and alumni to work in the field of adult public education.

Get to Know Liz Mengers, Planning and Development Manager at the Department of Human Service Programs, who works behind the scenes to expand resources for Cambridge's unhoused residents. She leads grant support, coordination, and collaboration with community partners to improve outcomes for those experiencing homelessness.

Last winter’s colder-than-normal temperatures sent gas heating bills soaring versus prior years. Now, following a proposed winter gas rate increase, the City of Cambridge is urging residents to act early to plan ahead and research how they can cut costs and prepare for colder weather.

Get to Know Susanne Rasmussen, Deputy Climate Chief at the Office of Sustainability, who sees public service as work to improve the lives of everyone in the community. For her, this especially means engaging with those who are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.