Mental health professionals at Cambridge Health Alliance have been leaving recently, in part because of changes to the Alliance’s treatment model, resulting in some patients losing longtime therapists.

Public meetings this week look at fixing a cannabis shop head start that hasn’t resulted in any open recreational cannabis shops; and roles, goals and how to measure outcomes among public schools and school officials.

Volunteers trying to get high-quality masks into the hands of families with kids in Cambridge schools – and perhaps a broader group of residents – are launching a second bulk-ordering campaign starting Tuesday.

Police were asking the public’s help late Thursday in finding a missing 78-year-old Cambridge man who has dementia.

Public meetings this week look at a school district vaccine mandate; condominium conversion law; landmarkings; and a number of long-simmering projects that could add residences in Harvard Square, Wellington-Harrington and Central Square and hotels in Kendall and Central squares.

Another public agency in the city, the Cambridge Housing Authority, will require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, joining major employers such as the Cambridge Health Alliance, Mount Auburn Hospital, the city’s three nursing homes and two major universities.

Police responded to a shooting reported at 5:53 p.m. Wednesday on the 100 block of Pemberton Street in North Cambridge near Porter Square. A vehicle was hit by gunfire but there are no known injuries, police said.

Cambridge’s hospitals have now set deadlines for staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and the city’s nursing homes are under orders to have all their employees immunized by Oct. 10. The city, though, maintains a policy of encouraging but not requiring vaccination for its workforce,

What might have become another in a series of gunfire incidents afflicting the Port neighborhood instead ended with the recovery of two loaded firearms and the arrest of two teens.

Big increases in the number of people of color living in Cambridge, particularly Asians, fueled a sharp rise in the city’s population between 2010 and 2020, according to U.S. Census figures announced Aug. 12. The total population increased by 13,241, or 12.6 percent, to 118,403.