Before the city knows how a change in zoning for private parking lot use plays out, there’s something else at risk: a deadline for the installation of bike lanes.

Nearly a year after the Winter Hill Community Innovation School shut its doors indefinitely, Somerville Public Schools is moving toward a new building to house its prekindergarten-to-eighth-grade community and maybe another school. 

The process of converting an outsider artist’s home into affordable housing begins this month with a community meeting, and a famous fence is coming down too.

Information promised about the closing of The Democracy Center was scant at a Thursday meeting where it was promised, but came in a statement provided Friday: Tenant organizations will be supplanted by another program.

The 911 emergency dispatch system suffered problems for several hours statewide Friday that also hit Cambridge and Somerville.

The Cambridge police officer named in an April 2 accidental gunfire incident has been placed on administrative leave pending a full review of the incident.

Earth Day’s not until April 22, but Cambridge celebrates Mother Terra on Saturday at the Main Library campus with plenty of sustainability offerings and events.

Public meetings this week look at setting City Council goals for the term and evaluating the city manager, housing and diversity hiring, and a Patriot’s Day celebration filled with history, treats, a horse riding in from Boston and a Humvee.

Public meetings this week look at West Broadway reconstruction, tenants and landlords rights, homelessness and a “dark skies ordinance,” a composting program, improvements for cyclists and a new Woody’s Liquors on the Medford border.

There’s one change around the state’s coming transformation of McGrath Highway into McGrath Boulevard that Somerville officials are trying to stop: removal of a pedestrian footbridge. A traffic signal change is also causing concern.