Out of Town News has provided a diverse selection of stuff to read – in print – since 1984. That hasn’t changed even as the city plans a $4.6 million redesign of the surrounding Harvard Square plaza and new uses for the kiosk, leaving the newsstand within on borrowed time.

The free Chromebooks relied on by the city’s high school students may not be perfect, but fears that a lack of Internet access make the laptops useless to some students are overblown, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School officials say.