Tensions over Somerville Planning Board powers emerge in two projects, and two plans get continued near Cambridge’s Porter and Central squares.

Public meetings and events in the coming days include a no-questions-asked gun buyback, a City Council meeting looking at Affordable Housing Overlay changes and climate-change construction, a hearing on drug-overdose prevention sites and a Hampshire Street bike lane open house.

A naked man in Central Square wasn’t streaking or bare on a dare – he was forced to strip as a form of shaming in what police are calling an unarmed robbery.

Public meetings this week look at the fiscal year 2024 budget, dining parklets, elder care resources, a cannabis dispensary for Davis Square and more.

Public meetings this week look at changes for police, including election for members of a civilian oversight board, and a possible new Kendall Square park; a bike-lane construction update; amd the return of the Flat Top Johnny’s pool hall.

Public meetings this week look at unarmed crisis response, after-school care, cannabis businesses, the proposed city and schools budgets and algebra in middle schools. Residents get the chance to complain about Comcast’s cable license too.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are Patriots’ Day celebrations, school vacation fun, things to do for Earth Day but also “Weeding Out the Stoned,” a touring game show in which audiences find the narc among the stoned.

Cambridge’s third adult-use cannabis shop and the first outside Central Square is set to open Saturday, followed by a location for the chain in Somerville.

The city is stepping in to keep a 35-bed homeless shelter open at the Salvation Army in Central Square and even improve it, but will not stop looking for funding from the state and other sources that could enable a step back, officials said Monday.

Public meetings this week look at funding for a safe consumption site for drugs, community preservation priorities, rules about outdoor dining and more.