Public meetings this week look at safe disposal of drugs and meds, scholarship committee updates, hiring at Tufts, the TSA and other employers and more.

Public meetings this week look at Core Empowerment, a cannabis seller seeking to open in Magoun Square where K-2 Beer & Wine once had the same plan, and the design of development proposals on Prospect and Spring hills.

Public meetings this week look at a proposed six-story U-Haul rental center, creating and shaping public safety policies, an Inner Belt hotel and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a “Groundhog Day” Improv Show, We Black Folk music festival, a fermentation workshop (with sauerkraut!) and more fun science, Celeste Ng and Jas Hammonds readings, ice skating and play premieres to go apiary for (such as for “Bumbled”).

Despite the Somerville Planning Board being in favor of green roofs as a concept, the state’s authority over the building code led the board to caution against passing a city law about the environmental measure; an Alewife apartment complex has sold for $182 million; and there’s more doings in development and zoning.

Public meetings this week look at a Mystic Avenue labs proposal, a possible Beacon Street teardown, overdose prevention and zoning for green roofs.

You can’t find gumbo too easily around this town, so it’s good news that The Boiling Crab is finally open in Harvard Square.

J and J opened as a convenience store selling barbecue chicken back in 1990, and has kept its old-school feel in the most endearing ways. Among its specialties are big meaty prawns sautéed with a garlic port wine sauce – in concept, a simple dish, but it‘ll keep surprising you in the most satisfying ways.

Transit upgrades are in store for the East Cambridge and East Somerville area as plans solidify to open the green line extension and make McGrath Highway more bike and pedestrian friendly.

The Department of Transportation plans a major revamp of McGrath Highway that will put it on a “road diet” and see the installation of bike lanes, but legislators say bicyclists need to be kept safer from passing cars and trucks.