Northampton Redoubt has kindly given us permission to reprint this post from yesterday: Landfill question letter submitted to Gazette by Andrew Woodland To the Editor (submitted Sept. 15 via email): Ward 3 City Councilor Bob Reckman today submitted a proposed amendment to the landfill expansion referendum language. While I applaud the council’s effort to put […]
Opinion
“An uphill slog: Fighting the landfill expansion is not going to be easy” – Mike Kirby
Mike Kirby has kindly given us permission to reprint his Sunday article from Kirby on the Loose. There will be a public information session on the Solid Waste Management Alternatives Study (PDF, 2.7MB) today at 7pm in the JFK Middle School Community Room, 100 Bridge Road. An uphill slogFighting the landfill expansionis not going to be easy.I […]
Video: Special Meeting of the Board of Public Works and the City Council, 8/21/09; Landfill Ballot Question No. 2
Here is a 1 hour 13 minute blip.tv video from the 8/21/09 special meeting of the Northampton Board of Public Works and members of City Council. This video was recorded by Lachlan Ziegler. The participants discussed the language of a City Council-sponsored nonbinding question for the November election ballot regarding the proposed expansion of the municipal […]
Key Portions of the Solid Waste Management Alternatives Study
The recently issued Solid Waste Management Alternatives Study (PDF, 2.7MB) is 145 pages long, so if you can’t read the whole thing before tonight’s information session (7pm, JFK Middle School Community Room), be sure to read pages 2.10 and 6.82-6.86 as shown below, plus the summary on pages 10.130-10.138.Table 2-1 suggests that at 34%, Northampton’s […]
Kollmorgen and the Bike Trail: Video Excerpt from the State Hospital CAC Meeting of 6/17/09
Here is a blip.tv video of the last eight minutes of the 6/17/09 meeting of the Northampton State Hospital Citizen Advisory Committee. Planning Director Wayne Feiden, Benjamin Spencer, Mayor Clare Higgins and others discuss the route of the bike trail that is to pass near the planned new facility for Kollmorgen Electro-Optical. Here are additional […]
Letter to Gazette: “Defending rights of North Street neighbors”
North Street gets fresh support from across town in Virginia Schulman’s letter published in today’s Gazette: Defending rights of North Street neighbors …I live on South Street, which used to have a lovely little wooded area at the corner where it forks into Old South and New South. In my opinion, destroying that woods to […]
Video and Guest Column: Planning Board Approves Kollmorgen for Hospital Hill on 6/11/09
Here is a blip.tv video of the first 2 hours and 12 minutes of the 6/11/09 meeting of Northampton’s Planning Board. The board approved a proposal by Kollmorgen Electro-Optical to build a new facility at Hospital Hill/Village Hill. This video was recorded by Jesus Leyva and Benjamin Spencer. Here are the agenda items covered in […]
Guest Column: Manhan Rail Trail Extension to Village Hill Northampton; June 11 Kollmorgen Hearing
The Planning Board will take up again Kollmorgen’s proposal for its site on Hospital Hill on June 11. Here is information about the hearing from Ward 4 City Councilor David Narkewicz: Northampton Planning Board Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:00 PM (Kollmorgen hearing scheduled for 7:20 PM) City Council Chambers, Puchalski Municipal Building 212 Main Street, […]
Gazette: “Forum hears pros, cons on school regionalization”
Today’s Gazette reports on a May 29 forum on school regionalization: …bigger school districts would save money by reducing administrative expenses and squeezing out inefficiencies, said state Sen. Stanley Rosenberg, D-Amherst… But a recent study shows that school districts with fewer than 2,000 students are more effective, said [Nicholas] Young, who is president-elect of the […]
Gazette: “Health, fiscal woes seed local vegetable gardens”; Freeman Dyson Sees Future Gold in Green
Today’s Gazette reports that vegetable gardens are even more popular than last year, a good reason not to infill away our urban greenspaces: An estimated 37 percent of all United States households, or about 43 million, plan to grow vegetables, fruit, berries or herbs in 2009, according to the Vermont-based National Gardening Association. That’s up […]