Some stories and complaints from the birth of Cambridge Local First were heard again Tuesday at a city committee hearing, and the buy-local campaign is fast approaching its fifth birthday. But there were also vows of fast action — including the creation of an action committee to jump on the “50 items” written down during the meeting by committee chairman and city councillor Leland Cheung.

Webster Bank has begun to foreclose on a condominium project at Yerxa Road and Rindge Avenue, residents of an online neighbors group were told Wednesday.

The bank robber got away … for a few minutes, anyway, according to the police report of a Wednesday incident.

Outreach was the implicit theme April 27 at the Cambridge Human Rights Commission’s 17th Annual Fair Housing Award Ceremony, as it was during the month of fair-housing activities it capped.

The recession that began December 2007 can’t be called ended, members of the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research told The New York Times on Sunday.

Residents may not like them much, but the bank branches keep coming. Even before TD Bank opens in Central Square, there will be another opening in July at 1270 Massachusetts Ave. in Harvard Square, where Adidas closed some months ago.

The developer of the 45-47 Yerxa Road condominiums was given 30 days to resolve two of the several complaints raised by neighbors and cited by Cambridge inspectors: that units are being leased illegally, and that there is debris on the site that should be cleared away.

Next week sees another step in TD Bank opening a branch in Central Square, in the Massachusetts Avenue space that used to house The Gap. Despite unhappiness over the coming of another bank, the move takes 7,000 square feet of empty real estate off the market just as another several thousand open up.

The city’s $32.2 million bond sale went through as expected Tuesday, budget director David Kale said, providing $25 million for high school renovations and about $7.2 million — the remainder — for sewer improvements.

There’s a move afoot to inspire you to move your money to smaller, local banks from the irresponsible, giant banks that contributed to the recent economic collapse. Dozens of Cambridge branches qualify.