Unlike in years past, this Somerville campaign season has no set dates for political forums or debates. Candidates are knocking on doors for the few contests.

Public meetings this week consider school building maintenance and a Medford Street development plan that has changed significantly over time.

Somerville’s election season locked into place at Wednesday’s filing deadline. Here’s what lies ahead for mayor, council and School Committee races.

Somerville School Committee members and city councilors have expressed a desire for more transparency and more frequent updates around the process.

Public meetings this week look at new housing at Lyndell’s Bakery, school building maintenance, a third electrical transformer in Union Square and more.

Rubén Carmona, director of family, community and employee engagement in Salem schools, will begin work in Somerville in July, relieving an interim leader.

Five finalists in a restarted superintendent search were announced Wednesday by the Somerville School Committee, and they include the favorite candidate from the first round – back after dropping out in February. A Cambridge Public Schools official is on the list too.

The Somerville School Committee have voted to remove police permanently from the city’s public schools, which a group tied to a 2019 incident in which a 6-year-old Black and Latino boy was accused of indecent assault and battery.

A search for a new Somerville Public Schools superintendent is being reopened before the February break in hopes of filling the job by April, officials said.

Instead of announcing a new superintendent on Monday as expected, Somerville School Committee members were left wondering how to proceed as favored applicant Marisa Mendonsa withdrew her candidacy.