We promised to use contributors’ money to maintain, expand and improve Cambridge Day – and though it’s still a work in progress, it’s only in progress because of those contributions.

If the obvious worst thing about this year was the coronavirus, the best thing is just as apparent: Our response to the pandemic as a city and as individuals.

There’s no suspense to naming the worst thing to happen to Cambridge this year: It’s the coronavirus. But we saw plenty of other disappointments and frustrations of 2020, even if some of them were worsened by the impacts of a pandemic.

We cheered for the defeat of Donald Trump and the end to one of the worst threats to democracy in American history. But closer to home, democracy has quietly been under attack for much longer than the tenure of the Trump administration.

Before I write and post online this year about the best and worsts of Cambridge in 2020, I’m inviting everyone to take part – help me sift through news and memories, reminding me of highlights and lowlights from your own perspective.

We said it nearly three years ago: The City Council needs its own legal representation. Really, not much has changed since then. Maybe just that on Monday the council saw as much as $68 million for affordable housing slip away.

The relationship between a food establishment and a neighborhood can be complex. This weekend you can taste it in three places through Jason Bond’s special croissant from squid ink, a unique sake-flavored sesame paste and some salmon.

Let’s preserve Carole Johnson’s classic design at Lechmere Canal Park for all who live in or visit our beloved city.

Shovels are in the ground at a library park paid for by the East Cambridge Open Space Trust in not just money, but through the thousands of hours worked by unpaid volunteers in endless meetings, emailing, record keeping, pleading and persisting. These local heroes cannot be thanked enough.

I begin by confessing that I have a weakness for Taco Bell, though I don’t understand the menu. I visited one before or after foreign movies at the long-vanished Nickelodeon theater; at Prospect and Hampshire streets; and in North Cambridge, a KFC combination known to locals as “Ken-taco.”