It is our pleasure to relay this information from the Ward 3 Neighborhood Association: WARD 3 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING, HARVEST FESTIVALCONTACT: Jerry Budgar 584-2964 The Ward 3 Neighborhood Association will hold its Annual Meeting and a Harvest Festival celebrating the growth of agriculture in Ward 3 on Sunday, October 5 from 1 […]
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We encourage interested citizens to attend the following meeting: Northampton Public Schools Strategic Planning Open Meeting Date: October 1 Start Time: 7:00pm Place: JFK Middle School Cafeteria (wheelchair accessible), 100 Bridge Road, Florence The Northampton Public Schools have embarked on a strategic planning process. The Northampton School Committee has hired consultant William Allen, Ed.D, of […]
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Here is a complete Vimeo video of the September 25 meeting of Northampton’s Best Practices Committee. The committee is to issue a report within a few months on how to improve the city’s decision-making processes and better integrate public opinion. The meeting took place in the Human Resources Department Conference Room of Memorial Hall. The […]
The Notre Dame School of Architecture has launched a website to present their ideas about Northampton and engage with citizens. Professor Philip Bess and six graduate architecture and urban design students–Kalinda Brown, Dan Degreve, Josh Eckert, Scott Ford, Aaron Helfand, and Crystal Olin–initiated a semester’s worth of study of Northampton with Design Northampton Week. Visit […]
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NSNA sent its newest videographer, Lachlan Ziegler, to record the state’s presentation of its Northampton landfill health study on September 23. Lachlan is a student at Northampton High School. The Department of Public Health presented its study at a Board of Public Works meeting held at JFK Middle School. This Google video is 3 hours and […]
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Yesterday’s Boston Herald reports: Home prices fall 9% Bay State median house-sale prices fell 9 percent in August as the real estate slump hit Cape Cod and central Massachusetts especially hard, new figures show… Warren said just 2,302 condos changed hands last month – a 22.4 percent drop from August 2007… Also yesterday on Bloomberg: […]
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City Councilor David Narkewicz has kindly called our attention to the latest proposed design for the new police station (also downloadable as a PDF, 9.3MB): The new police station will be discussed at two public hearings on Thursday: Central Business Architecture Committee (CBAC) Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:00 PM Memorial Hall, 1st Floor (former Council […]
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Northampton’s Ad-Hoc Committee on Best Practices is circulating this research memo for public review. It includes an exploration of how other cities bring the public into their decision-making. You can download this memo as a PDF (which will let you copy the text and click the links). Here is the date and location of the […]
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We are pleased to relay the following statement recently approved by the board of the Ward 3 Neighborhood Association: Statement of Support for Bridge Street Elementary School In light of the recent discussion by City Officials concerning the possible closing of a Northampton elementary school, the Board of the Ward 3 Neighborhood Association would like […]
Plans for the new Northampton Police Station have been revised in light of public input. Here is the revision of September 3, also available as a PDF: Here is the previous design from August: Another view of the August design: Here is a new plan for the parking garage on Gothic Street (also available as […]
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