What should be a crucial moment in our November elections, and voters’ decisions at the polls, arrived all the way back on Aug. 1 and passed almost entirely unnoticed.

City councillor Leland Cheung was singled out by the Young Democrats of Massachusetts and Greater Boston Young Democrats for re-election, saying he has to “buck the city’s tradition of not re-electing the lowest vote getter from the previous election.”

Former School Committee member Luc Schuster backs his former campaigner, Matt Nelson, for City Council, saying “there’s no one I’d trust more” to preserve Cambridge’s uniqueness.

This is not one of those election years voters will have trouble telling the difference among candidates for School Committee.

James Williamson first ran for City Council two years ago, saying he would “really pay attention to what’s going on in our city and … not be afraid to speak up and do something about it.” He sounded the same themes for this year’s campaign.

Whatever you think of the City Council’s approach to the big apartment complexes that keep popping up over the city, threatening to overrun neighborhoods with renters and cars, think back a year and you’ll have to admit it’s weird.

John Holland, who’s running for School Committee, said Monday that he has the endorsement of Joe Grassi, who was on the committee from 1993 to 2009.

A new website has rules for electing a challenger to City Council: Voters must never rank fewer than five candidates for their Nos. 1 through 5 choices for council; and must not vote for an incumbent until the No. 5 rank.

The city doesn’t know how much it’s spent fighting three civil rights lawsuits, and the mayor alone is blocking the release of other information. Those and other tidbits are emerging in the aftermath of the Monteiro case.

Councillor Craig Kelley is trying again Monday for a public accounting of the money spent on the Malvina Monteiro vs. City of Cambridge civil rights lawsuit and those like it.