I knew the Harvard Divinity School’s Rev. Peter Gomes only as a boy; on the anniversary of his death Feb. 28, 2011, I now marvel at the man he became.

S. Donald Gonson has died on Feb 18, 2023, following a long struggle with bladder cancer at 86. Don was a beloved member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, community, where he remained after moving to attend Harvard Law School in the mid-1950s.

North Cambridge’s Mussie Nirayo will be remembered Saturday with a memorial, burial and reception. The 22-year-old died Monday in Woburn in a shooting.

I am in awe of Alice Wolf and her 16 years in the Legislature after a legendary local political career. She was known for being an issues person, but she was much more.

Former Cambridge city councillor, mayor and state representative Alice Wolf, whose political career began in 1974, died Thursday after a brief battle with leukemia.

You can find idealism in many songs, many poems, but pairing that with the complicated energy and immediacy of David Crosby’s electric guitar riffs adds power I find myself coming back to over and over. 

Sheila Doyle Russell, a mayor and city councillor in Cambridge in the 1980s and 1990s, died early Monday, it was announced at a roundtable that night.

After the Aug. 9 death of Peter Valentine, an artist and eccentric whose Cambridgeport home became a landmark for its bright colors and otherworldly wisdom, Cathie Zusy submitted this because “it might inspire others to share their thoughts of this remarkable Cambridge figure.”

Peter Valentine, the artist and eccentric whose Cambridgeport home became a landmark for its bright colors and otherworldly wisdom, died Tuesday at his home, according to Michael Monestime of the Central Square Business Improvement District.

Patricia Ann Dumont, 80, of Cambridge, passed away March 14, 2022. Born Jan. 23, 1942, in Island Falls, Maine, to Wilbert Dumont and Goldie (Dumont) Davis. Pat spent the better part of her adult life living in Cambridge.