Public meetings and gatherings this week look at preparing people for U.S. citizenship, fundraising for the Community Action Agency of Somerville by dancing, finding kids’ summer activities and more.

Luke Bailey Santos, 20, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, passed away on February 20, 2024, in New York.

Fights break out at Somerville High School roughly once every two weeks, School Committee members heard, but a look at the Capuano Early Childhood Education Center showed a more delightful side of education.

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Maureen B. Hogan ruled for the City of Cambridge and dismissed a second lawsuit against the city that had argued bicycle lanes were an improper use of taxpayer funds and broke the law.

Hornby’s campaign focuses on issues that are hot-button topics in Somerville, including climate change policy, transportation, economic justice and education.

Funds for the lease of a new fire station – marking a milestone in its completion – was among the items handled Thursday by Somerville’s City Council.

Somerville has celebrities of its own, folks who were born here, raised here or chose to live here for a while and have made their mark nationally and even globally, sometimes for the best of reasons and sometimes for the silliest.

With every student in a dorm a student not competing for housing with other Cambridge residents, it was a key concern for Planning Board members hearing annual town-gown reports from Harvard, MIT and Lesley.

Public meetings this week look at making more housing and making it more affordable, a decision on a plan to reclaim the fenced-off Jerry’s Pond, room for small tech at Porter Square and planning for the Massachusetts Avenue of 2040.

Public meetings this week look an Armory master plan, alternatives to rat-trap poison, resident displacement and aid to the unhoused, a students’ health survey trivia event delated from Feb. 1 and talk about a wage theft ordinance.