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Easthampton Stop & Shop Announcements
The June 16th meeting has been cancelled!
The next public discussion of the proposed Stop & Shop development will be:
Tuesday, July 28th
White Brook Middle School Auditorium
6:15pm
Note that at the June 9th meeting (which I watched live on ECAT), the Planning Board indicated they wanted to bring the public hearings to an end, while the landowner stated that the number of people in attendance was too small to represent Easthampton (though it appeared everybody else in the audience was opposed to the project; no other supporters showed up, which makes me feel like the town was pretty clearly represented as opposing this).
So - if you can make it in person at the next meeting, whether you support the project or oppose it, be there. It may be one of the last opportunities to speak out either way
Much of the presentation centered around the new traffic studies, which most of the audience and several board members felt were inaccurate and very optimistic in displaying minimal impact from new traffic. There were no related air quality impact studies presented.
The board requested further information about these two subjects, as well as a review of the traffic videos by the Police Department and others; that should be the main topic at the next meeting.
Check board and committee meetings and other city events on the Citywide Events Calendar.
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What's this site for?
Well, I've only had the URL registered for the past five years, expecting to do something cool but never getting around to it! It was a wake-up call when it came up for renewal...
The idea is that this site will provide information about the Pioneer Valley, and for the community to comment on local events or politics, review hiking trails, museums, restaurants, or whatever. There doesn't seem to be any one site that offers a decent range of information about the area, so that's what I'm trying to do here. Hopefully doing this will give me a reason to break out the camera and make some day trips, visit a few fairs or other events, meet new people and have a little fun. And maybe it will motivate some of the site visitors to do the same thing.
Eventually I want to get lots of info up on the site, including reviews and comments from visitors, and content and images from people interested in becoming story writers, editors, or forum moderators, but for now the navigation on the side is mostly leading to collections of links and showing what the eventual structure might be - the target pages will have links to related sites, but not a whole lot of extra information. If you are interested in writing content, moderating a forum, or otherwise being involved, or just have comments or suggestions, please contact me.
Thanks, enjoy
- jo landers