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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. ...

Fort Washington Park was officially rededicated in a ceremony on Saturday, October 3. The event, a highlight of the planned Cambridgeport History Day, took place in a downpour.

Louise Pascale was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kabul in 1966. She went from school to school, teaching English and listening to the traditional songs her students sang: “Qu Qu Qu Barg-e-Chinaar” (Mulberry Tree Leaf). “Kisai e Nan” (Bread Story). “Baba Sanjirbaaf” (Baba Who Braids Chains).

After reading the September 24, 2009 Boston Globe story about the growing tendency of our government to resist complying with public records laws by charging inflated and sometimes astronomical fees for ...

Cambridge resident and CCTV member, Magaly Koch joins Farouk El-Baz from the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University in a conversation about the 1001 Wells for Darfur Project.

The subtitle of Maud Morgan’s autobiography is “A Life from Art,” and it was in that spirit—the opportunity to celebrate life through artistic endeavors—that members of the Agassiz neighborhood and guests celebrated the groundbreaking September 29 of a visual arts center named in her honor.