Courtesy Mercantile Library
Sara Pearce, who supervised the Cincinnati Enquirer Tempo section in the 1990s, died Sunday at age 68.
Full disclosure: I hired Sara as food writer in the early 1980s, when I was the Enquirer s features editor supervising the Tempo, Sunday Arts & Entertainment and weekly Food sections. After I was named TV columnist in 1985 – and after Pearce returned from the Orlando Sentinel and other papers – she was my boss.
Pearce oversaw the daily Tempo features section, and weekly A&E and Food sections, until 2004, when she stepped down as assistant managing editor to cover the art beat. She took a Gannett buy-out in 2008, and started her Paper With A Past artwork. She was diagnosed with breast cancer a year later.