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City Clerk Wendy Mazza Says: License Your Dog Already!
You’ve got to do it by April 1st. Info at this link.
Secretary Ian Bowles hikes into the Conway State Forest
Bowles and a team of biologists from MassWildlife checked out a black bear den today as part of a long-term state-wide bear study. MA Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Narkewicz on Trash: The Bill Dwight Show on WHMP
On Tuesday, Council President David Narkewicz spoke with WHMP’s Bill Dwight about the landfill resolution. audio.
Six MA regional library systems would be merged under Patrick’s plan
Charlie Dietz for WAMC news
Tacy on Dwight Show re Drugs and Sex Discussion SNAFU at Subcommittee
Can you stand it any more? Ward 7 Councilor Gene Tacy appeared on WHMP’s Bill Dwight show on Monday, and defended a recent subcommittee discussion that veered into topics related to drugs, sex, and public access to the wild open spaces. Here’s a link to audio of the show.
Tony Baye Denies Involvement with 12-27-09 Fires: CBS3 Video
CBS3 got footage from inside the courtroom at Monday’s hearing, and interviewed defense lawyers Tom Lesser and David Hoose. CBS3 got at least one detail wrong in their reporting: Baye is not being held at the Northampton Police lockup, but at the Hampshire Jail and House of Correction on Rt. 66.
Bucket loader vote tabled indefinitely
Video of Council discussion on the bucket loader appropriation has been uploaded to the NM Vimeo Channel; here’s the link. Errors were made in the procurement process, Higgins said. Procurement officer Joe Cook, financial director Chris Pile, and Parking Czar Bill Letendre spoke. The council, lacking the 2/3 majority needed for the appropriation, eventually voted to indefinitely table their vote on the fund transfer. Video courtesy of Northampton Community Television.
Tony Baye pleads innocent
Anthony P. Baye is being defended by Northampton lawyers David P. Hoose and Tom Lesser against 2 charges of murder and 42 other charges related to the multiple house and vehicle fires of Dec. 27, 2009. The DA’s office has not as of yet released any discovery materials to defense lawyers, Lesser told reporters after today’s hearing at Hampshire Superior Court.
Daily Collegian livestreaming SGA debate, tune in Monday evening
Promising new media producer Sean Sullivan of the Daily Collegian is out in the field tonight livecasting the UMass Student Government Association debates using simple tools: a laptop, a webcam, and a UStream Channel. Tune in here on Monday evening to watch this event.
The Whole Meeting
For those who asked, here’s video of the entire Feb 22 meeting of the Committee on Social Services and Veterans Affairs. Early in the meeting, Mayor Higgins updated the committee on issues involving public health delivery in the city.
Tony Baye officially charged in Superior Court with 44 counts including murder
22 News WWLP. Details of the Baye indictment here.
Gambling debate could heat up this week
Governor Patrick has been pushing for expanded gambling in Massachusetts since he took office, and House Speaker DeLeo is expected to unveil a proposal.
Cooley Dickinson to open walk-in clinic in Amherst
The Daily Collegian
Mass Medical Society testifies against biomass plants
“Biomass combustion electricity generation plants pose an unacceptable public health risk,” said Northampton’s Dr. Jefferson Dickey in testimony before the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy on Feb. 26 in support of House Bill 4458, “An Act to Limit Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources.”
Springfield’s Decade in Murder
Patrick Johnson for MassLive
MIT’s Media Lab moves into $90 million building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect
Massachusetts, even in the face of economic recession, continues its tradition as a center of global innovation. MIT’s new media lab is designed with “No boundaries, no walls, a flow of interdisciplinary ideas, and plenty of space to build and invent.’’ Great photo and video tour of an amazing building designed to support collaborative research projects. Hiawatha Bray reports for the Boston Globe.
“They’re making a big manhole of this”
Fred Contrada, reporting for MassLive, covers the Social Services Committee “drug powwow.”
Daily Collegian aggregates media coverage of campus sexual assault scandal
Journalism student S. P. Sullivan is Managing Web Editor of the Daily Collegian, UMass Amherst’s daily news publication.
Northampton Food Security Meeting
Help plan for a local food system that provides “abundant, reliable, safe, and nutritious food for its residents in the face of rising fuel costs.” Thursday, March 11, 7 pm; Thornes basement.
Cedar Chest evicted from Thornes Marketplace
Channel 22 News is reporting that Doug Kohl, owner of Thornes Marketplace, has evicted Cedar Chest, an anchor retail tenant in the building
Rt 291 traffic stop yields 1,000 bags of heroin; 3 Pittsfield men arrested
Drug raids across the Berkshires also conducted by police in ongoing investigation.
Lone gunman shoots two police officers at entrance to Pentagon; shooter critically injured
Washington Post w video
Northampton’s Chris Matera featured in Boston Globe
Matera, founder of Massachusetts Forest Watch, speaks for the trees… and is exposing shoddy forestry practices on our public lands.
Stop & Shop workers poised to strike
WWLP Ch 22 News
Survival Center Plans Unveiled
Before going public on Tuesday, the capital campaign had already raised $483,000, more than half of its goal. Story on MassLive.
Supreme Court may strike down local handgun bans
due process clause of the 14th Amendment cited
Stop & Shop negotiations getting worse
A standoff between Stop & Shop and its 40,000 workers continues today. The union said a strike could be imminent. WWLP Ch22 News.
Survival Center to get addition
Mass Live
Jason Vassell Status Hearing Draws Crowd
photo by Amy Bookbinder.
Story on MassLive. Vassell’s lawyers given until March 26 to study files released by DA.
Northampton VA has new director
WAMC News
Bill Newman’s ACLU Minute
On the topic of sex between consenting adults…even when money changes hands. WHMP.
Alex Ghiselin: Let Hotel Project Go; Start Over with New Public Spirit
by Mary Serreze | Feb 8, 2010 2:32 pm | Comments (2)
“It was the old way of doing business and it shows…”
Speaking at public comment session last Thursday at Council Chambers, former city councilor Alex Ghiselin once again urged Northampton Mayor Mary Clare Higgins to stop granting buy-sell agreement extensions to the would-be developers of a Hilton Garden Inn Hotel planned for a prominent piece of city-owned property downtown.
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