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Coronavirus emergency ends officially in May, but Sancta Maria suffers 33-person outbreak. As many as 33 residents of Sancta Maria Nursing Facility have tested positive for Covid-19 since last week, according to the city’s health department, one of the largest outbreaks of the pandemic in a local nursing home. The report comes as the federal and state governments plan to end the Covid state of emergency May 11 and many people believe the pandemic is over.

Coronavirus emergency ends officially in May, but Sancta Maria suffers 33-person outbreak

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Alternate to Affordable Housing Overlay change gets a hearing, may wind up having little impact. In a faceoff over changes to a law meant to bring more affordable housing to Cambridge, city councillor Dennis Carlone all but conceded defeat Thursday for his approach to building six- or seven-story buildings instead of allowing a limited number of higher-rise towers.

Alternate to Affordable Housing Overlay change gets a hearing, may wind up having little impact

MCAS season is upon us. Beginning this week, our schools will be turned into testing sites for students in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and 10th grades. Children will be tested in English-language arts, math and science (in fifth, eighth and high school). If students do not pass the English-language arts and math portions in high school, they will be denied a diploma even if they’ve met all the other requirements for graduation. The stress of MCAS season transforms classrooms from places where students investigate, solve problems and learn to think critically into places in which “teaching to the test” is extolled.

MCAS is not the answer

For Family Opera’s return with ‘Cutlass Crew,’ group commissioned writers for more scenes. After three years of Covid-induced postponement, the community institution North Cambridge Family Opera returned to the stage this month with the musical “The Cutlass Crew.” The four final chances to see the show are planned for Saturday and Sunday, with two stagings per day.

For Family Opera’s return with ‘Cutlass Crew,’ group commissioned writers for more scenes

For a city that in 2020 was the ninth-most densely settled in the United States, Cambridge is home to a surprising abundance of wildlife. Ask the drivers mixing it up with the turkeys in Harvard Square, or the joggers tiptoeing past a territorial goose. We also have one true urban wild, the Alewife reserve.

Dance of the woodcock

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State of Small Business is still afflicted by Covid, Cambridge Local First finds in inaugural report

State of Small Business is still afflicted by Covid, Cambridge Local First finds in inaugural report. It’s becoming harder to own and operate a small business...

State of Small Business is still afflicted by Covid, Cambridge Local First finds in inaugural report

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