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Looking for holiday activities that can enrapture kids of all ages? How about learning what is in store for space flight, looking at a 3-D holographic image that may reflect tomorrow’s television or finding out how a bottle of water could provide the electric power for the house of the future?

A bill that was hotly debated last week at the State House would alter the roster on the state's Joint Labor Management Committee (JLMC), which manages labor disputes between police/fire unions and cities.

After a lengthy discussion, members of the Cambridge Planning Board delayed a decision November 17 on giving the go-ahead to a controversial luxury condominium project planned as a joint project between a local developer and St. James’s Episcopal Church in Porter Square.

The revamped Cambridge Main Public Library at 449 Broadway opened on Sunday November 8, 2009 to great excitement from city residents! Fans of the beautiful old 1889 building need not be sad; it is attached ...

On November 11 Allen (second from right) and Janet Ghattas (second from left) led five other Cambridge residents on the first outdoor excursion of Cambridgeport’s Aging in Place project. The walkers gathered at Allen’s home on Erie Street and headed south, commenting on the scenes as they went. ...

NoCA Artist/Educator Profile 2: Joan Green, choreographer, dancer, visual artist, educator, and NoCA (North Cambridge Artist Association) member, shares some of her work and talks about her approach to nurturing creative expression in her students of all ages through dance and visual arts.

After writing my piece on who owns what at City Hall, and the related bit that appeared on the Cambridge Chronicle website, I thought I’d take a look at Campaign contributions to ourCity Councillors. Who is paying for who(m?) at City Hall. ...

On a recent morning at rush hour, the traffic on Beech Street in Porter Square was stalled in both directions. Cars trying to get to Massachusetts Avenue snaked in a long line up Elm Street toward Davis Square. Meanwhile, cars going in the other direction were backed up on Mass Ave.

Christian Ventura calls his mother, Brenda Ventura, over to look at lettuce farm by Judy Robinson-Cox. Among the towering salad greens in the photograph, miniature human figures are digging and raking.

For 120 years, the stately St. James’s Episcopal Church in Porter Square and the neighborhood of mostly Victorian-era homes that grew up around it co-existed amicably, even as the area’s demographics changed and the church’s fortunes waxed and waned.

At the last meeting of the East Cambridge Planning Team a plan for the redevelopment of Lechmere Square was presented. Unlike most of the development presentations that we see at the ECPT, this was our plan. ...

While it is still mostly prohibited to pahk the cah in the Harvard Yard, some changes have come to the university’s signature piece of greenery this fall, as anyone who has walked through it recently could attest.

Does the term "radio drama" make you picture your grandparents gathered around the wireless on Saturday night anxiously awaiting this week's episode of The Shadow? You may be interested to know that live ...

T’was the last Saturday in September, and the first weekend of fall, when I felt the call to try and “build community” once again in this area I call ‘the 4’. Birthday Party Time at the Margaret Fuller House commenced on that day despite various challenges. ...