A head start for minority-owned sellers of recreational marijuana will no longer be fought in court by the Revolutionary Clinics medical marijuana dispensary, according to a Thursday press release from the company.

In this notebook about dining options during Covid-19: Healthy tofu to go from Bon Me, House of Chang and The Smoke Shop.

Neville Center at Fresh Pond, one of Cambridge’s nursing homes, has opened a 14-bed isolation unit for patients recovering from coronavirus, admitting seven patients so far.

One facility, Neville Center at Fresh Pond, said Friday that it has five new infections. The other, Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, has anywhere between one to four new cases, according to a daily report posted by the state.

In this notebook about dining options during Covid-19, we discover some grab-and-go slightly sinful sides that work well as a lunch main: Bon Me’s lemongrass fried chicken thighs and Harvard House of Pizza’s garlic bread with cheese.

A resident of a local assisted living facility has Covid-19, the Cambridge Public Health Department said. Earlier this month, the department said seven nursing home residents and an employee had tested positive.

Public meetings this week look at a $1 million records system for police and campaign donations law for politicians, as well as restaurant licenses at risk from coronavirus and a fire, preventing evictions during a pandemic, a real estate transfer fee, and honoring a local Hollywood costume designer.

A second Cambridge nursing home has a resident infected recently with Covid-19, bringing the total number of nursing home cases reported in the past two weeks to eight residents and one worker.

Though the city didn’t name the nursing home, Sancta Maria Nursing Facility is the only one that has reported coronavirus cases this month, both in a state filing and in recorded messages on its telephone line.

Two more Cambridge long-term care residents have tested positive for Covid-19 since the city announced the first new such cases in months on Wednesday. This time the city’s public health department did not disclose details.