Former mayor Francis H. Duehay died Friday of complications from leukemia. He was elected to 14 terms on the City Council, starting in 1971, and served as mayor three times in a career in city politics that spanned 36 years before a 2000 retirement from public service.

The fun of Chuck Latovich’s thriller “The Girl in the Boston Box” goes way beyond a savvy dissection of South End real estate and dead accurate descriptions of T travel from Harvard Square to Fenway Park. The book is slick and sophisticated, with plenty of pleasantly electric shocks.

The city has performed approximately 11,000 free Covid-19 tests for residents since the spring, though that number is dwarfed by the total number of coronavirus tests received by Cambridge residents from all test providers in the past months.

The Harvard Art Museums will remain closed to the public until at least Dec. 31 in alignment with the university’s safety planning, according to a Wednesday press release, and continues to point people to its online offerings.

Cambridge will keep accepting any resident who wants a Covid-19 test despite changed federal guidance discouraging people with no symptoms from getting tested even if they were exposed to someone with the virus. The city is also continuing its free testing program into September.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other local universities have begun conducting Covid-19 tests on a vast scale as their students return to campus. Three people tested positive on Wednesday, but the MIT tests and positives are so far not counted in totals gathered from outside the school.

Cambridge health officials are keeping an eye on a slight increase in cases of coronavirus, particularly in residents in their 20s and 30s, and could tighten restrictions if necessary, they told city councillors Monday.

There’s no recent word on reopenings from Harvard’s various museums of science and art, but the MIT Museum put a stake in the ground Friday: It’s closed until at least 2021.

Federal district Judge Allison D. Burroughs announced an agreement between the federal government and Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that would remove the need for an emergency court order over international students’ visas.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded Monday to a lawsuit brought by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seeking an emergency court order to let international students stay in the country while taking online-only classes.