by Heather Brandon | Jun 14, 2007 | Urban Compass
Volunteers with the Springfield Preservation Trust recently met up at 52 Westminster Street for a cleanup, in tandem with the city putting the property up for bid. Resident and SPT board member/treasurer Michael Marcinkewich documented the visit and provided the...
by Heather Brandon | Jun 19, 2007 | Urban Compass
A new half-hour community-based television program in Springfield, “People Are Talking,” debuted last week four times daily on Comcast local government access channel 178:00 am, 12:00 noon, 7:00 pm, and 11:00 pm. Each episode will air for two weeks....
by Heather Brandon | Jun 25, 2007 | Urban Compass
Yesterday afternoon’s long-anticipated entertainment license hearing for the downtown Springfield shop Amazing.net yielded ample testimony of interest, but no decision yet from Mayor Charles Ryan about what may happen with the store’s license. ABC40...
by Heather Brandon | Jun 28, 2007 | Urban Compass
Fresh from the approval of a balanced fiscal budget for 2008, Springfield is the recipient of the 2007 Municipal Leadership Award presented by the Boston-based, non-profit Pioneer Institute, apparently in relation to its 16th annual Better Government Competition,...
by Hayley Wood | Jun 4, 2007 | The Public Humanist
I will always love Ralph Nader for publicly validating English majors. I joined the Green party soon after his speech at the First Churches in Northampton in the summer before the fateful 2000 presidential election. He said a lot of things that were sensible, clear,...