Frederick Hastings Rindge, Cambridge’s most important individual benefactor, was a ‘‘townie’’ who entered Harvard in 1875 and left soon after – yet still made a series of significant financial gifts to the city used by current residents every day.

Public meetings this week look at swearing-in the new City Council and School Committee; ending single-family zoning, building an 100 percent affordable-housing mixed-use project on New Street; tearing down the Garage mall; replacing a Harvard Street apartment building destroyed by a 2020 fire; and more.

In 1807, Harvard Street, heading from the West Boston Bridge toward Harvard College, had reached the eastern edge of Judge Francis Dana’s 50-acre estate, between today’s Lee and Hancock streets. Dana came up with a scheme to stop it there.

A roadblock for New Republik was cleared this week, accelerating an opening for the relocated, reimagined People’s Republik bar after months of delay.

Public meetings this week look at after-school program problems, big changes in a Kendall Square project, conflict over neighborhood conservation districts, construction on the former East Cambridge courthouse, Subcentral adding dancing in Central Square and more.

Police were trying to find a missing man Sunday, a visitor from Vermont named Aveyen Farneth. He was last seen at his sister’s home in Mid-Cambridge.

Public meetings this week look at a condo conversion, closing Central Square to car traffic – along with four topics delayed from last week – as well as hiring the next city manager, ensuring after-school programming for the fall and adding Summer Shack and Bar-Enza to Harvard Square’s dining mix.

A Cambridge resident in his mid-20s was taken to a local hospital early Thursday after sustaining a non-life-threatening stab wound to his forehead near Central Square.

Cafe Sushi has been sitting quietly at the Central Square end of Harvard Square for more than 35 years serving top-flight gourmet sushi and Japanese cuisine at bargain-basement prices – and has scaled back only somewhat for the pandemic.

If an Italian-style Pilsner meant for day-sipping that’s great with food sounds appealing, there’s exactly two places to get it starting Sunday: Pammy’s, the New American trattoria in Mid-Cambridge, and Lamplighter Brewing, a brewery and taproom in The Port.