REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE------ TOYS!
Get your childcare lined up for our HOLIDAY TOY EXCHANGE!
When: December 6
Where: Nonotuck Community School, 221 Riverside Drive, Florence MA 01062
Time: Bring your toys from 9:15-10am
Begin "shopping" at the Toy Exchange 10am-12pm
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Okay I like Thanksgiving and I am a native of America. For me the holiday conjures warm memories of my late loved ones supping around the hearth in North Hatfield. A young adult during the Great Depression, my memere (grandmother) would bring over some gin in a re-used medicine bottle [...]
Northampton citizens that support the use of the Bean Farm in Florence for recreational purposes are circulating a petition of their own. The first signature on the petition is from Ann-Marie Moggio, Director of the Recreation Department.
The online version can be found at the link below. So far [...]
From Kathy Silva via the Paradise City Forum.
There is going to be a Spaghetti Supper Fundraiser for Sandi Pinkham. She is a single mom with kids in the Ryan Road School system. She is very involved in the school activities and in the Northampton Youth [...]
On Saturday the Gazette covered a story regarding the Green Street Cafe and Smith College. Unfortunately I am misquoted in the article, but no matter. In response to the article, "dwight," posted the following comment on Gazette's Talkback.
I don't want to [...]Among the robust commentary offered on issues before the City Council ranging from a Living Wage Resolution to the city's impending purchase of a portion of the Bean Farm property in Florence, numerous city residents spoke during the public comment portion of yesterday's City Council meeting regarding the lingering dispute [...]
Press Release:
GREEN Northampton is starting a free service available immediately to all businesses
and residents in Northampton, GARBAGE AUDITS. GREEN Northampton has formed
teams of auditors to visit homes and offices and give informational and sometimes
excavation-al exploration into garbage, recycling and other collections of objects that need
a destination [...]
Jennifer Hartley sent the following to the Paradise City Forum listserv regarding the potential purchase by the City of Northampton of about forty acres of the Bean Farm in Florence. As of now only three options have been put forth for the land if purchased by the city with Community [...]
Public Input Meetings
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 10:00 am - Noon
Monday, November 23, 2009, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
At the Northampton Senior Center
67 Conz Street,
Northampton, MA
The Housing Partnership and consultant Karen Sunnarborg will present the DRAFT Housing Needs Assessment-the first part of a Housing Strategic Plan for Northampton. Community [...]
The North Street Neighborhood Association (html) has a wealth of coverage regarding local issues. From the proposed Bean Farm purchase by the city for playing fields to the recent Meadowbrook fire to to reclassification of the city's floodplains to the redevelopment of the Three County [...]
With the holiday season upon us visit the Northampton Survival Center online to learn more about how you can help society's neediest to survive.
[...]The Boston Globe reports Nov. 7 on Governor Deval Patrick's cuts to homeless programs which have raised the ire of homeless advocates across the state. It is not yet clear how these cuts will impact services in Northampton, if at all, but it is [...]
From the Western Mass. Jobs With Justice listserv:
NO LAYOFFS! NO TAKEAWAYS! INFORMATIONAL PICKET AT COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL
4-6pm, 30 Locust Street (Rte 9), Northampton. Nurses at Cooley Dickinson hospital--proud members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, a state-wide union of direct-care nurses--are refusing [...]
Here's an idea for our organic waste. Not that this is right for Northampton, but it is something to think about.
Compost with a Kick
Bokashi is a centuries-old Japanese method of recycling household food waste into all-natural compost. By employing a special culture of yeast and other microorganisms, bokashi is [...]
As I wrote a few entries ago, about 5,000 voters determined the direction this city of 28,000+ should take for the next two years. A little more than fifty percent of Northampton's voters turned out for the Tuesday election, about the same number as the spring override vote. It turned [...]
Dear Friends,
Please help save an important part of our community and our landscape. The Upper Roberts Meadow Reservoir and the Dam located on Chesterfield Road in Florence are slated for removal. This nearly 130-year old dam may be removed as early as the SUMMER of 2010 if we don't [...]
And why the public policy of expanding the landfill does not deal with our waste problem
Guest Editorial by Jesus Leyva
First I want the people reading this article to have a context for understanding where this piece of writing comes from and why I wrote it. I originally [...]
I've been following Northampton Mayor Mary Clare Higgins' campaign print ads in the Gazette with interest. First there is self deprecating irony in referring to Higgins as a crummy mayor in a great city. Then fear is used in appealing to Anybody But Clare (ABC) voters to be careful what [...]
Guest Editorial from Water Not Waste:
The following was submitted to the Daily Hampshire Gazette as a Guest Editorial on October 23rd. As of October 31st, they have chosen not to include it in their election coverage of the Opinion section of the paper.
Shall the City of Northampton expand [...]
