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Cambridge Celebrates the Arts at River Festival
June 16, 2008 - 6:01pm — kmklinger
By Karen Klinger
Sitting at his “Poet Populist” table at this year’s Cambridge River Festival, Peter Payack recalled that when the now venerable event began in the 1970s, it was a modest affair supported primarily by what he called a small “artists’ army.”
Back then, it would have been hard to imagine that the festival would grow into a celebration of the arts attracting upwards of 100,000 visitors annually, as well as scores of performers and craftspeople. read more...
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Preservation Funds Sought for Shady Hill Square
June 12, 2008 - 2:43pm — kmklinger
By Karen Klinger
In the latest chapter in the effort to save the green centerpiece of Cambridge’s Shady Hill Square from development, residents whose houses surround the horseshoe-shaped property want to buy it with the help of Massachusetts Community Preservation Act (CPA) funds.
The homeowners have applied to the city for a $150,000 grant to help them purchase the land from a development company that holds a building permit to put up a 5,000-square-foot building in the middle of the grassy common that has served as a communal front yard for the square’s dozen semi-detached Colonial Revival stucco homes since they were built in 1915. read more...
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Residents Left Guessing About Bridge Reconstruction Delays
June 11, 2008 - 6:02pm — kmklinger
By Karen Klinger
To quote a character in that old Paul Newman movie, you might say what we have here is “a failure to communicate.”
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Cambridge Bids to Ban Artery-Clogging Trans Fats in Eateries
June 2, 2008 - 9:29pm — kmklinger.JPG)
By Karen Klinger
City officials are poised to enact a ban on the use of artificial trans fats in all resta
urants and other establishments licensed to serve prepared foods, with the new law phased in over three months starting July 1, 2009. read more...
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Cambridge Eyesores: Grappling with Graffiti
May 28, 2008 - 10:53pm — kmklinger
By Karen Klinger
Graffiti. Just the name conjures up images of a common and hard to eradicate problem that can happen anywhere vandals wield cans of spray paint.
While Cambridge is far from having the worst graffiti problem around, neither is it immune. Often it’s the work of “taggers” who want to leave their marks in a latter day version of “Kilroy Was Here.” read more...
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Cambridge Marks Memorial Day with Parade and Nod to Long Lost Aviator
May 27, 2008 - 4:42pm — kmklingerBy Karen Klinger
Under a brilliant blue sky with thousands of American flags flapping in the breeze in Cambridge Cemetery, the city marked Memorial Day with a parade, music, speeches and a tribute to a local aviator who disappeared in the jungles of New Guinea in 1943 and finally has been brought home. 
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Cambridge Eyesores: Waiting, Waiting for a New Bridge
May 22, 2008 - 4:36pm — kmklingerBy Karen Klinger
When work began on the reconstruction of the Walden Street Bridge near Porter Square on Oct. 10, 2006, it was just days after Catholic Church theologians announced they were reconsidering an aspect of Limbo, which Dante depicted as the outer circle
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