Field Report: The Hudson Valley Garlic Festival
* Stunning scenic views, friendly faces, and rustic small town settings are reason enough to visit the beautiful Hudson Valley in upstate New York. But this time of year there is another, even more enticing excuse to cross the Hudson River: Garlic.
Local News Briefs & Tidbits: 09-26-08
FOURTH CITY REAL ESTATE AUCTION – 2008: The City of Springfield has announced its fourth real estate auction of properties in the city. Slated for October 7, 2008, the auction will be a ballroom-style event held at City Hall. Registration will begin at 6:00pm and the auction is scheduled to start at 7:o0pm. There will [...]
Exit, Panagore
Springfield’s chief development officer, David Panagore, has announced he is leaving us for a better job in Hartford, Connecticut. Panagore came to Springfield in 2004, riding into town along with the state-appointed Finance Control Board. He took up his current position as development chief back in 2006. Panagore departs after a sometimes contentious tenure here [...]
Downtown Updates: The Poop on Parks
A rather busy week has left me with just this quick piece to put up here, for now… While enjoying a sunny afternoon in downtown Springfield last week, I encountered something a bit different upon walking into an otherwise familiar Riverfront Park.
At The STCC Campus
Checking out the sights at Springfield Technical Community College. This fall, I’m taking a couple of classes there, so I thought I’d do a little tour, similar to the tours I’ve done of other nearby colleges (1. , 2. ). Below are some photos, with a Flickr link to more of them. The photos are [...]
Swan’s Dive
Well, the preliminary elections are over, now, so for some folks it’s okay to dive back into the murky swamps of politics-as-usual in Springfield. Newly re-elected state Representative Benjamin Swan came out on Wednesday to declare his support for his pals over at the Springfield Towing Alliance (STA). Swan has provided office space to the [...]
Decision Times
AND THE WINNER IS…? This Tuesday brings an end to the race for the state Representative seat for 11th Hampden District, and that’s too bad. The people of the 11th would probably have been better served by having an Independent and/or a Republican thrown into the mix. But this did not come to pass. Instead, [...]
Neighborhood Disservices
By the late spring of 2005, the neighborhood of Maple High Six Corners had had enough. Their two year-long, frustrating effort to get a property on Central Street cleaned up had come to naught. The city government appeared to be either disinterested or incapable of getting the property owner at 444 Central Street, one Eddie [...]
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