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Explains how the Cambridge Historical Commission regulates designated historic properties, describing process to obtain the required certificates to alter designated historic properties and how to obtain a demolition permit.

The Election Commission office will be closed to the public from Friday, June 6 through Tuesday, June 10 but we can be reached at elections@cambridgema.gov during that time.

Compost Instructions - Portuguese

The City of Cambridge is excited to once again invite community members to vote on projects aimed at improving the city as part of the 10th Participatory Budgeting (PB) process. From March 7 to March 17, 2024, all Cambridge residents aged 12 and older, including all 6th graders and university students, will have the opportunity to participate.

Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Alvin E. Roth—Nobel Prize–⁠winning economist, the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard University—for a discussion of his new book, Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work. He will be joined in conversation by Ray Fisman—who holds the Slater Family Chair in Behavioral Economics at Boston University. Registration is required.

The City of Cambridge announced the results for the ninth Participatory Budget (PB) Process. From December 1-11, 8,707 Cambridge residents age 12 and older voted to decide how to spend $1 million on capital projects to improve the community, representing the most votes yet in a Cambridge PB process.

Learn how to complete a monthly financial check-up for your small business! This workshop will help business owners identify tools to make better financial decisions.

May 2021 Community Bike Ride

Join Cambridge-based authors Gish Jen, Claire Messud, Virginia Pye, and Laura Zigman for a conversation about Cambridge as inspiration in their writing on Monday, November 6 at 7 p.m.

Updated 6/8: The individual depicted in this previously circulated Looking to Identify post has been identified. The Cambridge Police Department is grateful to those who shared the post or otherwise assisted.