The North Charles counseling center will get at least another three years to treat people with addiction and other health issues at 54 Washburn Ave., in North Cambridge at the Somerville line, despite complaints from many neighbors.

Opposition to a recreational cannabis shop proposed for the Strawberry Hill neighborhood is being rallied by a second, nearby recreational cannabis shop.

People thronged a Central Square intersection Wednesday for a free, open-air block party headlined by the hip-hop star Doug E. Fresh. The party marked the grand opening of the city’s first recreational cannabis shop, Yamba Market.

If the city allows clinics such as ours to be kicked from neighborhood to neighborhood based on the whims of an unrepresentative slice of neighborhood activists, Cambridge would be just like any other community where the wealthy and entrenched can run roughshod over the marginalized.

What other day would Cambridge’s first recreational cannabis shop hold its grand opening? Yamba Market in Central Square has a celebratory block party with hip-hop legend Doug E. Fresh on 4/20, known as National Weed Day. The store, though, has a soft opening starting Tuesday.

An annual city “impact fee” that would take 3 percent of all revenue from recreational cannabis shops was dropped Monday, with city councillors agreeing that the money would be of minimal help to the city while putting a significant hurt on a new class of small businesses.

Sure, our calendars are filled with increasingly commodified holidays, but they’re also filling up with new days of nationwide significance.

Public meetings this week look at problems with rats and a change in preschool hours, missing a May 1 deadline on bike lane construction, turning a vacant lot in The Port into affordable homes, special education policies, an energy-use disclosure law, Alewife-area lab moratorium, city manager search, law against wage theft and much more.

A rotating pop-up storefront called the Inman Incubator has set up shop in the heart of Inman Square. The first local maker set up for a month of sales: Indestructible Food, with a series of screen prints by Sarah Dudek that turn supermarket staples into wall-worthy art.

Cambridge, waiting since a statewide vote in November 2016 for recreational cannabis shops, could soon hold the highest concentration of them in the state – and as the first expected to open, Yamba Market takes its role as a leader seriously, a cofounder said.