Marc Levy

1 week ago | cambridgeday.com | Marc Levy

These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City Calendar and in the city’s Open Meetings Portal. License Commission, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. The space at 438 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, that was an Artifact Cider Project taproom from 2020 to 2023 is set to become the MoreFun Café like the two in Boston – with toys, stationery and housewares – and a small kitchen and seating for 10, unlike in Boston.

2 weeks ago | cambridgeday.com | Marc Levy

These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City Calendar and in the city’s Open Meetings Portal. Cambridge kiosk advisory committee, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. As a historical kiosk in Harvard Square prepares to open after a refurbishing from its former use as a newsstand, this group talks about what will be inside and how the space will be activated. Team members from CultureHouse and the Cambridge Office for Tourism present.

2 weeks ago | cambridgeday.com | Marc Levy

A lab project in East Cambridge was embraced Tuesday by the City Council in an Ordnance Committee meeting, and with it the future of the neighborhood organization called East End House. An old two-story building at 320 Charles St. in East Cambridge – built as an Anheuser-Busch Co. bottling plant in the 1950s, more recently leased to the Broad Institute for its work fighting diseases – is proposed by owner BioMed Realty to be redeveloped into up to four stories for a future life-sciences tenant.

2 weeks ago | cambridgeday.com | Marc Levy

A pickup truck towing a trailer of pricey racing shells similar to canoes went on a wild ride Saturday night through Cambridge, chased by police until the driver was arrested on Blanchard Road along the Belmont-Cambridge line, police said Sunday. Along the way, the driver of the truck – which was reported stolen to Arlington Police, officials said – collided with and heavily damaged at least three automobiles, including a Cambridge police cruiser, a bystander said.

3 weeks ago | cambridgeday.com | Marc Levy

Police are investigating a sexual assault reported Thursday in the Harvard Square area. The victim was walking “in the vicinity of Harvard Square” when two people wearing black ski masks and gloves approached and forced the victim into a nearby alley, police said, providing no further details. The assault took place in the “night or late evening,” Cambridge police spokesperson Bob Reardon Jr. said.