The city’s latest teen health survey has some data that rattled participants at a Tuesday meeting, including a “historic” level of mental health struggle among kids, several dozens of whom had thoughts of suicide over the past months.

Cambridge reported 75 new cases of Covid-19 among residents Tuesday, apparently the largest daily number of infections since April 10, 2020, when 90 were identified.

To some administrators’ dismay, election commissioners called schools some of the most stable places to hold balloting in the city’s 34 precincts – and other officials looked for ways to ensure the relationship continues.

More than half of the voters who took out ballots for early voting waited until Election Day or the day before to turn in those ballots, and election and city councillors who gathered for a roundtable wondered why.

Public meetings this week look at administering the latest (and next) elections; the school district’s teen health survey; a real estate “linkage” fee leap; spending $65 million in American Rescue Plan money; and plans for – and protections of – the city’s Gas-Light and American Friends buildings.

Details were added Monday to the story of an arrest in Central Square that concerned city councillors for reasons ranging from the use of police resources to the risks of having a passerby take part in a police action.

Fresh Pond Reservation rangers are hoping for a break in an unusual case involving a unique crime: Theft of a hornet’s nest.

The city has started to look at paying members of boards and commissions as a way to broaden the pool of candidates – news that came as City Manager Louis A. DePasquale reappointed Planning Board members in what some saw as a political response to November elections.

In a “dream come true” for the restorers of Cambridge’s Magazine Beach, the park’s historic powder magazine will be taken over by Mass Audubon and turned into a three-season facility with free drop-in nature programs, snacks and drinks for park visitors and restrooms for visitors.

Now that city and town health departments are taking back responsibility for investigating cases of Covid-19 and tracking their contacts, state officials say local workers can scale back their efforts after Jan. 1 by singling out problems in certain settings, such as clusters of infections.