Food For Free began assembling Just Eats Grocery Boxes on Feb. 24 at its new distribution center on First Street in East Cambridge, producing 3,000 family boxes of food a week with partners in the worlds of nonprofit work, biopharma and real estate development.

The life sciences real estate development company that bought the 26-acre Alewife Park from GCP Applied Technologies in July for $125 million just dropped another $54 million on a property next door: One Alewife Center, a 90,000-square-foot four-story office property on an additional acre.

Public meetings this week look at Nuestra, a recreational cannabis shop seeking to open in Lechmere; renewals of proposed Alewife zoning and an East Cambridge Conservation District Study; and help for educators and students in the coming school year.

Public meetings this week look at evaluating superintendent Kenneth Salim, ensuring students’ social, emotional and mental health, building a life sciences center in a drab part of the Alewife Quadrangle and a petition that would urge developers to turn away from fossil fuels.

Most employees of a Kendall Square research center have been working from home because of the coronavirus. Now the organization, the Ragon Institute, wants to start bringing them back to the office as part of what it calls a research project, apparently without consulting with city officials.

The Cambridge Public Health Department announced Friday that three Cambridge residents have tested positive for the coronavirus: One confirmed positive of a resident in their 50s; and two presumptive positives of residents in their 30 and 40s.

The Danes’ innovation center is expected to grow to eight to 10 people by mid-2019, likely growing within Kendall Square where science attache Torben Orla Nielsen said he can “walk to offices for 18 of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies. That’s unique.”

The Kendall Square Association named C.A. Webb its president today. She said she arrives with plans in place to make the tech destination more welcoming to all, and with “more ambitious plans” that include helping improving mass transit to the square via the MBTA.

The Supreme Judicial Court opened the door Friday for Massachusetts patients to win damages for harm from generic drugs, something that until now was virtually impossible nationwide – though the court has a demanding standard of harm for plaintiffs.

The Cambridge Public Health Department seeks volunteers to serve as community representatives on institutional biosafety committees. Most committees meet once a year.