Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Covering Amherst 100-Percent: With the 99%

›
As I've mentioned , Sunday, October 16, proved to be a busy day on the civic calendar. While Select Board Chair Stephanie O'Keeffe w...
1 comment:
Monday, November 28, 2011

The Select Board Welcomes the Amherst College President, Anno 1994

›
As I noted in my last post , I would, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Amherst College president, have preferred to offer just som...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Town Greetings: Inauguration of Carolyn "Biddy" Martin as President of Amherst College

›
As noted in the previous post , I was deputized to represent the Town at the inauguration of Amherst College President Biddy Martin. Beca...

Your Select Board: Covering Amherst 100% (another example)

›
Even two weeks before the premature blizzard caused the Snowpocalypse last month , your Select Board had the town covered 100-percent, in a ...

Snowtober Postmortem

›
We're finally clearing away the last debris from the great October snowstorm, but the ultimately more important work is the assessment o...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Veterans Day in Amherst

›
flags at half-staff in the morning, before the ceremony I was unable to attend this year's Veterans Day ceremony at the Town Commo...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Amherst Village Center Rezoning: A Conversation

›
As the final day of Annual Town Meeting approaches, there are still plenty of questions about the proposed rezoning of the North Amherst Vil...

Snowtober Snapshots

›
Just a few scenes of damage and continuing clean-up: outside Police Station Sweetser Park Hampshire College clean-up Hamp...

Snowtober: Covering Amherst 100% (eventually)

›
Well, at any rate: 37% with power and 63% without on Halloween; 65% with power and 35% without by November 2; 98% with power and 2% (278 hou...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Interfaith Relations and Genuine Multiculturalism: 2011 vs. 1723

›
It is all too easy to dismiss our modern gestures of religious pluralism as just that: empty and often automatic if not altogether cynical g...