"or 88," said Captain Patenaude of the Northampton Police to me this morning. Responding to rumors fed by a story in the Hampshire Gazette, I called him to ask if the second instance of graffiti they reported was outside the Mayor's campaign office at Old School' [...] 
I first saw Bob Moriarity at the last City Council meeting, when a lot of us turned out for the public comment session to vent our views about the landfill. Sticking to three minutes when you are facing [...]
I remember back at the dawn of time, maybe 1993, driving into Boston for a conference being sponsored by the Massachusetts Municipal Association. Don’t ask me what it was all about. I was on the city council, and Mary Ford [...]
The Stairway to Nowhere: Building 21 todayIf you look at this Youtube video of the Meadowbrook fire on April 13th, one is struck by the strange narcolepsy affecting the fire fighters. CLICK HERE
Look at minute 1:15. They walk slowly, wearily. “They seemed [...]
The Stairway to Nowhere: Building 21 today
Some links on the site are working, most are not.
The Dam
Beardsleys restaurant today
For a long time the stately building downtownat 109 Main Street seemed to be unrentable, an open sore, a haunted building, a crime scene without all the yellow tape. Now it will be the local home of trendy Urban Outfitters, sellers of almost [...]
A month or so ago, I was sitting there in the fortified intake room at the police station. Behind dark aquarium glass, officers were working on dispatch and intake work. They will talk to you if you lift up the phone. On the wall is a bulletin [...] 
I am still writing for downstreet.net, former Daily Hampshire Gazette editor Ed Shanahan's on-line journal.
Twilight Time at the NHA
