Marc Levy

Public meetings this week look at improvements at Jerry’s Pond, the demolition of the home of Peter Valentine, a job-training assessment, the city’s annual Holocaust remembrance and rules about letting cannabis shops package product.

A decade-old dream of city-owned Internet crashed under the overload of Cambridge’s new financial and political constraints, meaning a delay for an indeterminate number of years before the idea can be considered again.

The traffic patterns on Garden Street in Cambridge will change again, bringing back two-way car travel alongside two-way bike lanes by eliminating more parking. It's estimated to cost up to $167,000 and be done by the summer of 2026.

Sex workers and sex trafficking will be discussed by Cambridge city councillors in May or June, but not immediately and not the way some might want.

A victim with a leg wound was taken to a hospital Thursday after a shooting at around 7:05 p.m. in The Port neighborhood in Cambridge. 

Sex workers are asking the public to stop making assumptions about the Cambridge “brothel” case, and another group wants to “humanize” all involved.

Public meetings this week look at Covid aid and police budgets, school communications. city charter changes, housing affordability and sewer improvements.

An emergency rally has been called for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powder House Square in Somerville to protest a Tufts international graduate student being taken into custody Tuesday by federal authorities.

A fatal, multivehicle crash at around 1:21 a.m. Friday is under investigation. A New Jersey woman was charged with drunken driving.

The end of the outdoors-gear shop is a blow to Central Square, which is seeing a dozen businesses open – a Green Soul cannabis seller is set to begin sales Friday – but also just lost a Redline gym and its Walgreens.