School was canceled Friday for the 422 students at Somerville’s Winter Hill Community Innovation School after concrete fell onto an inside stairwell, leaving families protesting that they had long warned of such dangers.

Public meetings this week look at a Bike Network Plan, construction-site noise, a proposed community center, an apartment building in Winter Hill, and more.

Public meetings this week look at creating municipal broadband, adding trees to the heavily used Foss Park, pollinators, city charter changes and more.

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

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are Patriots’ Day celebrations, school vacation fun, things to do for Earth Day but also “Weeding Out the Stoned,” a touring game show in which audiences find the narc among the stoned.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Rock & Roll Rumble preliminaries continue and the Down Home Up Here music festival is back at Club Passim, the MIT Museum looks at the science of comedy and there are plenty of dances to see and poems and literary readings to be heard.

A state police gang unit is saying a gang out of Cambridge with an enduring feud in Somerville may be tied to a roving gunfire incident Tuesday.

Public meetings this week look at financial aid for the 299 Broadway developer, civilian oversight of law enforcement, federal funds for housing stability and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s fairy tale opera, Beethoven and Schubert as well as “Heather, the Musical” and “Waiting for Godot,” plenty of readings, a “Bittersweet” art exhibit, reproductive justice and one-woman dance and Bitch, the musician, performing her “Bitchcraft.”

Attend meetings on rodent control, intersection reconstruction, school building maintenance, affordable housing, Winter Hill and Porter and Davis squares, and more.