From probate to validate, the city’s Educational Consortium at James House won a $20,000 Beveridge Family Foundation grant.
I know, the probate-validate rhyme lede was a bit of a stretch, but the James House on Gothic Street was the former site of the Commonwealth’s juvenile court and probate offices before they moved them to [...]
Category Archives: Downtown Stuff
Welcome, James!
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All About the Pole Position
I came across a rather innovative home accessory today. Ever see one of these?
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It Happened on Edwards Square
Walking home from my noon-time stroll with the pup, we happened upon this. It appears to be the claw of some sort of chicken reptile, no doubt. The scaly fingers, the pointy claws, the waxen yellow look of the skin.
When we first came upon it, I thought it was someone’s discarded root vegetable. You know, [...]
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Welcome, ______________.
Hello people who read the Best Of… Advocate of this week, April 15th.
I’d like to thank the voters in the 2009 Best of the Valley Readers’ Poll for voting my defunct, deflated, detached, just plain de-a-d blog Paradise City Best Local Blog. It’s really nice of you all. Thank you.
However I am but one person [...]
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LOST: one bumper
Bro #1: Dude, what’s wrong?
Bro #2: I can’t find my bumper.
Bro #1: Where’d you have it last?
Bro #2: I don’t know.
Bro #1: Well, think.
Bro #2: I had it in the pocket of my hoodie all night last night. But I just checked that and it wasn’t in there.
Bro #1: So it fell out.
Bro #2: Yeah. [...]
Question, Downtown…
Have you ever noticed the not one but two mailboxes in front of A2Z Science and Learning Store? Why two? They both have the same pick-up times (3pm Monday – Friday, 10am Saturday).
Don’t get me wrong. I love having a mailbox for my mail on my walk to work. But having two to [...]
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Chalk It Up, Until You Can Feel It
God bless, Sam Harbey. He’s owner and proprietor of Sam’s Pizza on Main Street in downtown ‘Hamp. The former Quizno’s / Bart’s Homemade / Bonducci’s. Sam’s has come the closest to capturing the “come in, relax, hang out” vibe that was Bonducci’s. Everybody’s in there from Mary with the chin beard [...]
Cross Crossing
The Main / King / Pleasant Street intersection is a practice of cooperation. We pedestrians know that after every cycle of red light / green light, we too will get our chance to cross. It’s easy to spot the out-of-towners who just assume the green light is for them despite the bold red hand indicating [...]
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Backseat Driver
One time when Jaime’s car was full of crap, bags of old clothes, a lamp shade, hockey skates, with maybe a box fan and an old rusted fry pan, a friend of mine asked, “Is Jaime mentally ill?”
The contents of our cars say a lot about us. Just ask Pennywise here waiting for his driver [...]
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Asking For It
I’m not going to full out say which downtown Northampton bank has this switch out in full view and finger’s reach. I need to keep some element of challenge involved. But I will say it starts with TD and ends in Banknorth. Where do you think it goes to? Is it the switch for the [...]