Public meetings this week look at safe disposal of drugs and meds, scholarship committee updates, hiring at Tufts, the TSA and other employers and more.

The office of Somerville’s mayor plans to staff a new fire station coming to Assembly Square with “lateral” hires of firefighters from outside the city.

Public meetings and gatherings this week include Earth Day events, including a visit to Somerville’s growing Miyawaki Forest and a pollinator plan; a Narcan distribution; and Mystic River pathway and improvements at Draw 7 Park.

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.

Public meetings this week look at Core Empowerment, a cannabis seller seeking to open in Magoun Square where K-2 Beer & Wine once had the same plan, and the design of development proposals on Prospect and Spring hills.

Public meetings this week look at a proposed six-story U-Haul rental center, creating and shaping public safety policies, an Inner Belt hotel and more.

Public meetings this week look at resolving conflicts in Ball and Magoun squares and South Medford where parcels split at city lines and zoning districts; the future of the Armory arts building; a Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination backlog; and more.

An end to parking minimums has been embraced by most Somerville city councilors and staff for Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and heads on to more public process

Public meetings this week look at potential community benefits from development at Somernova and a Historic Preservation judgment of three homes on Winter Hill and Spring Hill dating back to 1900 and 1920 and facing demolition.