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CAN Community Yard Sale – Saturday June 17 – Participant List
CAN is facilitating its first Community Yard Sale, scheduled for Saturday, June 17, 7am. Please print the attached flyer that provides the address of each participant. We welcome households to participate from all Cambridge neighborhoods. If you have any questions, please contact Pete at padoyle627@gmail.com. Thank you!
Special Election Candidate Responses to CAN Questionnaire
Candidates running in the June 6 Special Election for the Ward 1 and Ward 5 City Council seats responded to questions developed by the CAN Board to ascertain their positions on selected issues. Candidate responses are presented here exactly as submitted.
WARD 1
Laurel E. Atkiss
Chad Malkus
WARD 5 (Candidate Robert G. Aaron did not respond)
Cleveland L. Rippons
Brian R. Roche
CAN’s Summary of 2024 City Budget
Info on Cambridge Youth Curfew – Jan 28, 2023
CAN Summary of City “White Paper” on Water, Sewer, Trash Services – Aug 14,2022
City Fire Department Needs New Vehicles
Below is a message from CAN President, Chuck McFadden, about our Rescue Fire Company’s need for new vehicles.
County Charter Commission Recommendations – July 20, 2022
Judge Stephen Rideout (ret.)
swrideout@aol.com
Dear Readers:
The Charter Commission made its presentation on Charter Change recommendations this past Monday to the County Council. The presentation went well with Phil Reed doing most of the talking. All but one member of the Commission was present for the meeting. In addition about 7 members of the public appeared to present their views on the recommendations.
All of the speakers praised the Charter Commission and the work that they had done in such a short period of time. There were a few concerns about some of the recommendations; but on the whole, those members of the public who were speaking supported the issues that the Commission was trying to address.
As the report, under normal circumstances, would have been due to the County Council in May, which is about when the Commission was allowed to start, this report in mid July has put some time pressure on County Council to make any decisions on their recommendations, as any proposed charter amendment needs to be at the State Elections Board by August 5th in order for them to make final approvals as to language for the ballot question to appear on the ballot in November.
The County Council voted to place these recommendations on the agenda for the County Council meeting on August 2nd at 6:00 p.m. for final decisions. If any of the recommendations are adopted, lawyers for the county will have just a few days to prepare appropriate language unless directed otherwise in order that the ballot question can be sent to the State Board of Election by August 5th.
We were advised that future meetings of County Council will be televised and not conducted over the phone. I am not aware how they will be televised – over the Internet or on a cable channel – so you may want to check the county web site for information on that issue. You, of course, are welcome to join the public at the meeting itself.
Steve
Volunteers Needed – Bike the UGRR – Sat, Oct 15, 2022
Cambridge City Election (Aug 23) – Absentee Ballot Info
Judge Stephen Rideout (ret.)
swrideout@aol.com
Dear Readers:
For those of you living in Cambridge and are registered voters, I am attaching a copy of the form and directions to request an absentee ballot in the event you are away on election and/or run off day or do not want to vote in person.
The link to this information can be found on the city website at
The first vote is scheduled for August 23rd. If none of the candidates have 50% plus one of the votes, there would be a runoff election at a later date.
For everyone on this email, even if you are unable to vote in this election, please share this information with anyone you know who lives in the city so they can be aware of this opportunity.
Thanks.
Steve