At The Hudson Valley Garlic Festival – 2009
Each year my brothers and I venture westward into the hinterlands of New York’s Catskill Mountains – where hundreds of Buffalo Bills jerseys roam – for our annual pilgrimage to the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival. And while this little personal crusade doesn’t exactly fit into the category of local news reporting at The Intruder, I’ve [...]
Spfld. Candidate Updates – 09- 24-09
News updates from the Springfield City Council race… Springfield City Council candidate John Lysak, running for the ward 8 seat on the council, has announced the opening of a new campaign headquarters on Boston Road. The grand opening of the office is set for September 25. Lysak said in a press release that he is [...]
The Unintentional Candidate
When Thomas Walsh was asked about his write-in candidacy for the Ward 6 City Council seat in this past month’s preliminary election (held on Sept. 15th), he explained that the effort was started without his prior knowledge. When I went on to ask him about the write-in campaign that was being planned for him for [...]
Time gets Tight at the Intruder
Panasonic HVX200A Above is the latest version of the video camera I am being trained on in my Video Production class at STCC. It’s about $6,000 after sales tax. The memory cards alone will cost you $400 a-piece. It’s so pricey that the class only uses one, which we all take turns using. The common [...]
Maple High Gets a Little Greener
Maple High Six Corners Neighborhood Council President Melvin Edwards accepts a grant from WMECO officials last June. Last June, the Western Massachusetts Electric Company awarded a $1,000 grant to the Maple High Six Corners Neighborhood Council for the planting of four trees in their community. This past week, those trees began to take root at [...]
In Springfield, Preliminary Survivors Look Ahead to November
For the surviving candidates running for office in Springfield, November 3rd is now the day of reckoning following Tuesday’s preliminary election that whittled down the candidate field to two challengers for each available seat on the City Council and School Committee. (There are only two candidates running for mayor.) There were few surprises in any [...]
Extreme Makeover: Springfield City Council, 2009
When Springfield City Councilor Patrick Markey announced last June that he wasn’t interested in running for a second term, his decision turned a lot of heads – this one included. ‘What the hell is he trying to prove?’ I told myself.
Fact-Checking Obama’s Speech
That was a great speech on health care reform by President Obama, wasn’t it Happy Valley? I could hear the collective sigh of admiration coming from his tens of thousands of fawning followers here in Western Massachusetts, all nodding their heads in agreement with, well, everything He said – some perhaps with tears of joy [...]
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