Porter Square Neighbors Association (Cambridge, MA)

January 2021

Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 7:00pm

Meeting Minutes, January 21, 2021

Helping Our Neighbors and Our Local Businesses

Local efforts underway to keep neighbors and small business afloat during COVID
Continuing Concerns re the change in direction at Davenport Street
Accommodating open discussions during meetings

Matt Stewart, St James Episcopal Church

Parish house to open in spring (hopefully). To comply with state and City COVID regulations, they hope to host a series of small tours for neighbors when they have the CO.

More COVID Vaccine info

Submitted by ruth on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 5:31pm

https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine?icid=coronavirus-lp-n...

CVS is now offering vaccines, here in Cambridge.

https://twitter.com/Ammallon/status/1360348196229234688?s=20

Vaccination Updates

COVID Vaccination Information Sources

Submitted by ruth on Sun, 01/31/2021 - 7:53pm

From the Living Well Network (a Cambridge nonprofit) today's update on Covid Vaccinations. Transportation, Tips, help with navigation, etc. Here https://agassiz.org/living-well/links-for-obtaining-covid-19-vaccination/

Also go to:

Resillient Mystic Collabrative

Submitted by ruth on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 7:22pm

https://resilient.mysticriver.org/

Check out the Mystic River website, and some of the data you can find there.

As well as some of the work they are doing.

https://resilient.mysticriver.org/our-work

The business case from "Building Community Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions: A Guide for Local Officials" by FEMA:

PSNA Meeting - HOW WE CARE AND SHARE NOW, Thursday Jan 21

Submitted by ruth on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 2:39am

PSNA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting Thursday, Jan 21.

PSNA Meeting -- HOW WE CARE AND SHARE NOW

Time: Jan 21, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

We will start the meeting by hearing from Matt Stewart, priest, and others, from St. James Episcopal Church about their work around food insecurity, homelessness, etc. and how these will be affected as the construction of their new community center is completed.

BLACK LIVES STILL MATTER!

Submitted by ruth on Mon, 01/18/2021 - 5:11pm

#BLACKLIVESMATTER.

An ongoing installation that honors over 135 individuals, a small fraction of Black lives taken by police brutality and hate crimes.

On view in the street-level windows of the Lunder Arts Center Roberts Gallery.

Race and Racism in America

Submitted by ruth on Sun, 01/17/2021 - 8:55pm

Cambridge Day

Ten things I learned from hard conversations about race and systemic racism in America

By Anthony D. Galluccio

Monday, June 15, 2020

Last revised on: Wednesday, January 13, 2021

ZEKE Awards & Bridge Gallery

Submitted by ruth on Tue, 12/29/2020 - 1:55am

Bridge Gallery

#5 Pemberton St.
Cambridge, MA. 02140
p: (617) 930-3418

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af71b5a45776e30ed0e851e/1...

New COVID Restrictions Take Effect in Cambridge

Submitted by ruth on Sat, 12/26/2020 - 7:57pm

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2020/12/23/city-imposes-three-weeks-of-covi...

November 2020

Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 7:00pm

Agenda

Update on 2072 Mass Ave project
Update on Davenport St traffic proposal
Annual election of officers

Update on 2072 Mass Ave

Jason Korb, Jennifer Tamarkin, and Sean Hope from Capstone Communities reported back on changes to this project made after meeting with abutters and neighbors who the project affects. These are the changes: