Public meetings this week look at street cleaning without tows, green zoning, a municipal property inventory; conservative “birthing” clinics, board Stipends and bank frontage; and zoning to decide where labs are allowed.

A “recommended path forward” on issues around the unhoused and substance use in Cambridge will be presented in early 2023, residents learned at a hearing.

Food For Free’s Sasha Purpura is stepping down from her chief executive role after 10 years, the food rescue and redistribution nonprofit said.

Public meetings this week look at municipal broadband feasibility, the unhoused and substance issues, Alewife zoning recommendations and more.

New conditions in state funding led the Salvation Army in Central Square to opt out of applying for money needed to keep its homeless shelter open.

Public meetings this week look at expanding the Affordable Housing Overlay zoning from 2020 and how to use city-owned property; getting more EV charging and a municipal “green fleet”; the findings of the East Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Study Committee; and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are World Cup matches broadcast from Qatar to The Port, a run and wrestling, readings, poetry and storytelling, chances to dance before and after the Thanksgiving meal, and a holiday tradition: “David Boobie” burlesque.

Public meetings this week look at rat control and climate zoning; Pikalo Empanadas filling the former Izzy’s restaurant space; the effects of a bus route redesign; Linear Park redesign ideas; urban design guidelines; Coffee With a Cop; and more.

Police and city officials are stepping up efforts against crime and homelessness in Central Square since Starbucks delivered a hard-to-miss illustration on the extent of anxieties there – by leaving its space after 25 years.

Hispanics make up nearly one-tenth of Cambridge’s population, yet a gathering of all of its Latinx business owners would be a lonely affair. There are ways to change that.