Firefighters said goodbye Wednesday to Gerard Mahoney, who has served as their acting chief since March 2017. His firefighting career spanned some 39 and a half years.

During a flash storm at around 7:45 p.m. Sunday, Pia Agliati caught a lightning strike over Harvard Stadium – a dramatic example of recent intense weather that’s due for a break.

The Cambridge Community Foundation’s board of directors has brought on Janet Steinmayer, president of Lesley University, and moved Lori Lander to be vice chair effective retroactively to July 1.

Cambridge began saying farewell to City Manager Louis A. DePasquale on Monday at his final meeting presenting to the City Council. His term began in 2016 and ends July 5.

The upcoming season at the Central Square Theater has been announced, continuing a focus on themes of science and diversity. The four-play season will be the first without co-founder Debra Wise as artistic director of the Underground Railway theater company, who said diversity was a reason for her departure.

The Kendall Square Association’s president since March 2018, C.A. Webb, said Thursday that she would leave at the end of February, assuring members facing a new search for leadership that “the KSA has never been stronger.”

Cambridge’s Suzanne Teegarden is a winner in the year’s Mass Audubon statewide photography contest with an image of Canada geese chicks taken in Watertown.

For the 13th year, Hope For the Holidays has given out financial support to 35 families based on referrals from Cambridge schools, the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, Hildebrand Family Self Help and other organizations.

Michael Monestime, who led Central Square into forming a business improvement district, faced down the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic and created the Starlight Square complex, is leaving as executive director, but will join its board of directors starting Jan. 1.

Elizabeth Pierre, a 23-year-old native of Cambridge who competed as Miss Cambridge, was named Miss Massachusetts 2021 on Saturday, beating 22 other candidates at the annual pageant held at Worcester’s Hanover Theatre. Pierre is the first Miss Massachusetts of Haitian descent.