A youth basketball mentorship program called Cambridge Basketball Lab launched this summer, giving youth in grades six through 12 an outlet to become better players and learn skills that will serve them well beyond the game of basketball.

Aug. 24 brings the latest Oldtime Baseball Game, which has entertained fans in Cambridge and fundraised for charities and nonprofits for nearly 30 years.

The actions that were taken during the Covid pandemic will inform the response to future pandemics. It would be irresponsible to not conduct a postmortem.

It stands to reason that a return to normalcy would make some people skittish, but we can’t continue to live in fear of this virus. The time to move beyond Covid has come.

The city’s Neighborhood Conservation District ordinance doesn’t recognize the essential role change has played in Cambridge’s history, which is ironic: The ordinance’s goal is to interfere with change, but change is the very thing that created the built environment the ordinance seeks to preserve.