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.

Cambridge police officer Lawrence Hudson was found unresponsive at his Woburn home early Monday and declared dead, police have announced with “deep and profound sadness.”

A late resolution Monday honored legal scholar, civil rights champion, Harvard educator and Cambridge resident Lani Guinier, who died Friday.

Bell hooks, the prominent feminist scholars and author, died Wednesday at 69 in Kentucky. “Heartbreaking” doesn’t fully depict the enormity of her passing. 

James W. Swan, a recently tenured associate professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died Nov. 5 after what the school describes as “a medical event.”