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City to Plant Third Miyawaki Miniforest at Peabody Elementary School.

CHRC and CET Survey - Immigrant Rights and Access to Services

The Baker-Polito Administration today announced plans to close the Commonwealth’s vaccine preregistration system by the end of May. The COVID-19 Vaccine Finder at vaxfinder.mass.gov will remain available, with over 900 locations listed across the state. The Administration also announced the expansion of the state’s Homebound Vaccination Program to support in-home vaccinations for all eligible residents who are unable to get to a vaccine site, beginning Monday, May 24.

Yiyun Li will read from her 2026 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow

Cambridge Public Library to Launch Coding and Web Development Workshop

Join us for a conversation about community, resilience, and activism in the Latinx community with Gladys Vega, the Executive Director of La Collaborativa in Chelsea. Gladys Vega is a groundbreaking community organizer and advocate, working relentlessly and fearlessly to ensure the Latinx immigrant community has a voice in determining how it’s needs and concerns are addressed. She believes that empowerment of the individual leads to empowerment of the community and that social action is the vehicle an empowered community can use to achieve its goals. Gladys is the architect of nearly all of La Colaborativa’s programs, initiatives, and community organizing campaigns. Her leadership has resulted in expanded rights for immigrants, low-income families, tenants, workers, youths, and people of color across Massachusetts.

The Cambridge Police Department recently welcomed five new officers, after they transferred into the Department and were sworn in Friday morning at a small ceremony inside the Robert W. Healy Public Safety Facility.

The Cambridge Public Library will welcome Elaine Castillo, author of How to Read Now and America Is Not the Heart, for a reading from her newest novel, Moderation.

Beginning Thursday, July 1, the City of Cambridge will offer free COVID-19 testing one day per week on Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. inside the CambridgeSide Mall. No appointment is needed. Thursday testing at the CambridgeSide Mall will no longer be drive-through testing by motor vehicle but will become a walk-in testing site without appointments inside the CambridgeSide Mall on the 2nd Floor above the Food Court. The current drive-through testing in the garage will shut down.

Join us on Thursday, December 11, for an in-person community meeting to learn about the future plans for the 135 Sherman Street Multi Use Facility.