Public meetings this week look at linkage fees and playing fields, banning fur and fake health clinics, after-school program buses, bike lanes on Garden Street, a Porter Square pot shop, eliminating parking minimums, planning North Massachusetts Avenue and much more.

Before Covid, many folks said Cambridge baseball was on the decline because of competition with newer sports or the pace of the game. Our goal is to grow the numbers.

The high school’s sports registration numbers have resurged and hit their highest levels ever, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School athletic director Tom Arria said.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Fresh Pond nature walk and Nature in the City Festival, “Cinema Strange” and free screenings of new Pixar classics, classes in augmented reality and a “Yart Sale” – a citywide yard sale for art.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are family bike rides and game nights, a smut slam, comedy with Kathe Farris and a book reading with Imbolo Mbue, as well as music from Mia Asano, John Powhida, Fabiola Mendez and the Bridgeside Cypher crew.

Extra innings: Just in time for the All-Star break, a second installment of baseball movies that hit it out of the park with wisdom on success and happiness on and off the field.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Bollywood Night in Central Square, a drag queen competition and book clubs from a brewery, free films, readings poetic and political, a Taste of Carnival, a day of roller skating, a live edition of the podcast “Yo, Is This Racist?” and much more.

A report identifying what each recreational field in Cambridge is used for and how they’re equipped to do it is expected to reveal that girls’ sports are still undervalued – proving what seems known universally.

Baseball as a metaphor for how to live one’s life is nothing new – you’d think by now we’d have retired that number. Yet one can’t help going back to the genre’s Hall of Fame, MVPs that offer up sage wisdom on how to achieve success and find happiness on and off the field.

After skipping two years due to the pandemic, the Galluccio Associates Annual Youth Sports’ Volunteer Recognition Breakfast is back in person Saturday to celebrate its 26th year.