Here is a complete YouTube video of an April 19 presentation by students in the Smith College Picker Engineering Program Senior Design Clinic. They presented their analysis of renewable energy potential at Northampton’s municipal landfill. This presentation is the product of a year-long study that researched wind, solar and biofuels on the landfill as it […]
Metropolis: Why are predictions on the Future of Architecture always so wrong?
We appreciate Paul Goldberger’s essay in this month’s Metropolis, “Rose-Colored Glasses”. An excerpt: What intrigues me is how little real curiosity about the present most futurists seem to possess. They miss its nuance and complexity. They seem to grasp none of the richness, not to mention the subtlety, of the way in which a vast […]
Update: Planning Board *Approves* Seton Parish Site Plan, Restricts Oxbow Soccer
Update: On April 18, Northampton Senior Land Use Planner Carolyn Misch confirmed to us that, contrary to the result shown on the Seton Parish Site Plan video below, “the board’s decision (3-2) stands as an approval since it was a majority of the board present.” Here are two YouTube videos covering the complete 4/14/11 meeting […]
Video: Conservation Commission Rebuts Dawson, Discusses Plassmann
Here is a complete YouTube video of the 4/14/11 meeting of Northampton’s Conservation Commission. This video is 1 hour 47 minutes long and was recorded by Adam Cohen. Highlights: 0:51:45-1:01:32 Members of the commission craft a letter to the Gazette that responds to a March 17 guest column by Alexandra Dawson. She had written: The […]
Video: Reprecincting Committee, April 13, 2011; Ward 4 Has Excess People, Ward 2 Too Few
Here is a complete YouTube video of the 4/13/11 meeting of Northampton’s Reprecincting Committee. This video is 49 minutes long and was recorded by Adam Cohen. The committee’s maps, documents, membership and meeting schedule are online here. Much of the committee’s work, shifting census blocks between wards and between precincts, may take place at its […]
Election Calendar for Ward 3 Special Election
Ward 3 Special Election Calendar 2011 See also:At-Large City Councilors Will Step In Until Ward 3 Seat Is FilledVideo: Lisa Fusco Announces Run for Ward 3 City Council SeatAngela Plassmann Resigns as Ward 3 City Councilor
At-Large City Councilors Will Step In Until Ward 3 Seat Is Filled
The Ward 3 Neighborhood Association advises: To: Members of the Ward 3 Neighborhood Association From: Jerry Budgar, President and Owen Freeman-Daniels, Vice President Re: City Council Representation For Ward 3 Date: April 9, 2011 Councilor Angela Plassmann’s recent resignation leaves Ward 3 with no formal City Council representation until a special election to fill the seat […]
Video: Lisa Fusco Announces Run for Ward 3 City Council Seat
Here is a YouTube video showing Lisa Fusco announcing her run for the Ward 3 City Council seat. She is introduced by former Ward 3 City Councilor Marilyn Richards, and followed by brief remarks from her campaign manager, Owen Freeman-Daniels. This event took place at the Northampton Airport on April 8. It follows by a […]
Angela Plassmann Resigns as Ward 3 City Councilor
Angela Plassmann has just issued this press release: Due to recent city actions that have had a profound negative impact on my family, I have decided to tender my resignation from the position of Ward 3 City Councilor effective immediately. My family and I have come under harassment from a department head for the City […]
Ward 6 Councilor Marianne LaBarge to Stand for Re-Election
As released to the press today: I, Marianne LaBarge, am announcing my candidacy for Re-Election as City Councilor in Ward 6. I have served Ward 6 and in the City of Northampton since 1996. I will be completing my 7th term this year. I would be honored to serve my residents and City again. I […]