As many as 30 students will get a tuition-free education at Bunker Hill Community College in what is expected to be the first year of a permanent program.

A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from drunken Shakespeare to stoned comedians, foraging walks to “Fungi and the Coming Pandemic,” Horror Movie Science and an artist-magician at the The MIT Museum.

Have you ever wondered who built your home or lived there before you? Denise Davis-Sullivan of Cambridgeport doesn’t have to wonder.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Wayne Newton, Zadie Smith and Naomi Klein, the Cambridge Carnival, Boston Fuzzstival and Somerville Toy Camera Festival, close-up magic and MIT games, arepas and beer, basketball gods and Kristen Emack photography.

There were 1,269 demands to censor library books and materials in 2022, up 813 percent in two years. University presses are unlikely players in the controversy.

The dashboard appears to have kept many – but not all – of its promises to shed light on police interactions with the public and examine them for racial bias.

A group of city councillors are preparing an order seeking the creation of a commission to oversee a Cambridge reparations process. The motion leans heavily on work by Saskia VannJames, who presented to the council’s Civic Unity Committee last month.

A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Passim’s Campfire Weekend to large walking puppets to Wayne Newton at the 98th Annual Italian Feast of Saints.

Public meetings in the coming days look at reparations and restitution to black Cantabrigians; plans for the former offices of the American Friends Service Committee and changes to traffic and transportation on Mount Auburn Street in West Cambridge.

I will march on with the deepest respect and gratitude for Charles Ogletree Jr., a great man who left an indelible mark on my life and my mission.