Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be different this year as a result of the coronavirus, but there is still plenty going on.

New Year’s is bound to be an indoors affair while a pandemic is till raging outside, but there are ways to make the night festive and unique.

Draper, a Kendall Square engineering innovation company, teamed up with the Cambridge Fire Department for an annual Toys for Tots drive, continuing a 15-year tradition.

Municipal offices will close Thursday and Friday for the Christmas holiday, as well as on Jan. 1 for New Year’s, city officials said. Payments are not required at parking meters and pay stations on Friday and Jan. 1. There are other changes as well.

A Winter Holiday Shopping Guide has been released by Cambridge Local First in partnership with the city – making it easy to find hundreds of nearby small businesses and nonprofits during a holiday shopping season that months of coronavirus lockdown makes particularly important.

What to do about Thanksgiving during coronavirus, when traditions of big gatherings are getting stifled under masks and distancing requirements? Plenty of Cambridge restaurants are hungry to make feasting at home easy.

Halloween is going to be different this year, with block parties and municipal holiday events canceled and trick-or-treating discouraged. Audrey Day-Williams, a parent from The Port, has co-created an alternative: The Play Trick-or-Treat board game.

The first yellow school buses reappeared on Cambridge streets last week, and an initial glimpse into the reopening of the public schools was provided at the School Committee meeting on Tuesday.

Halloween’s in the air, but the coronavirus pandemic makes trick-or-treating a spooky prospect. Boo Bags from EHChocolatier are one glorious alternative to the traditional way of garnering a little one’s holiday sweets.

Covid-19 means no traditional city-sponsored Halloween celebrations this year, such as open houses at Cambridge fire stations and parties at schools – nor street closings, park permits or block parties to mark the holiday, city officials say.