Greenfield, Massachusetts
- Greenfield, Massachusetts: Traditional Choral Evensong – Sunday, November 6, 2011
We will celebrate a traditional Evensong on All Saint’s Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 4 p.m. Prayers will be offered in particular for those who have died in the Lord during the past year. The Saint James choir will lead the congregation in singing hymns. They will also sing settings [More...]
- Dogfish Memory: Sailing in Search of Old Maine – A Memoir by Joseph A. Dane
The Maine dogfish are gone—fished to the brink of extinction. Gone too is Linda Jane, and with her the love and the subjunctive Maine that they might have shared. And what of that fabled “Old Maine”? Is it gone for good?
Dogfish Memory is the story of the search for an [More...]
- Greenfield, Massachusetts: St. James Coffeehouse Presents Arnie Fisher & Garnet Rogers
GREENFIELD, MA - The Saint James Coffeehouse announces the Garnet Rogers/Archie Fisher Concert for Sat. April 9th.
Time: Saturday, April 9 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: St. James Coffeehouse, 8 Church St., Greenfield, Massachusetts
More Info: Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Music starts at 7:30. Tickets are $18.00 in advance, $20.00 at the door. Advance tickets at World Eye Bookshop [More...]
- The Coming Of Spring In New England
Deja vu! I have the feeling like I did this before... Wait a second! I did shovel snow just yesterday. My three-year-old son and I even went over to help a neighbor clearing the driveway. Unfortunately, the snow blower we inherited broke after the second snowstorm. Will this winter ever [More...]
- The Red Garden – A Novel About Colonial Massachusetts by Alice Hoffman
This book of linked stories is a backstage pass to the making of a single town’s legends. We’re there at the fictitious founding of Blackwell, Mass., where a handful of families have trudged west from Boston into the mid-18th-century wilderness. They survive their first winter in the Berkshire mountains off [More...]
Politics
- In Time For 4th Of July Celebration: Obama Strips Oval Office’s Red, White & Blue Decor
First of all, before you continue reading, please consider the location that this disturbing news stems from: Greenfield, Massachusetts. Greenfield, while located in a state that includes Harvard University and MIT, is not blessed with great educational demographics. Greenfield, Massachusetts still acts primarily as a farmers' community, and I go [More...]
- Greenfield, Massachusetts: The Lying Games Continue…
Wilfried F. Voss is the editor of FrogenYozurt.Com and a Greenfield, Massachusetts resident.
Abutters to a large discount store project in Greenfield, Massachusetts and their consultant, Al Norman (a.k.a. the Walmart sprawl-buster), have filed an appeal to stop the project. They did so at the last possible moment, i.e. late Monday [More...]
- Ben S. Clarke – The Columnist for the Greenfield Recorder And The Real World Lesson
Frankly, I get tired of my writing the day after pieces are published.
- Ben S. Clarke
Honestly, I had given up reading Ben S. Clarke's column in the Greenfield Recorder. In my personal opinion, he would be better off writing a book in the range of "All I Really Need To [More...]
- Cheers, Ben S. Clarke, For An Enjoyable Cliff Claven Performance
Frankly, I get tired of my writing the day after pieces are published.
- Ben S. Clarke
It seems that Ben S. Clarke, a regular contributor to the Greenfield, Massachusetts newspaper - The Recorder, is still on the search of his own identity. He started off as a Washington-DC-based speech writer, but [More...]
- Greenfield, Massachusetts – Store Opponents’ Arguments Come Up Short
The logic escapes me
Store opponents’ arguments come up short
Source: The Recorder, March 12, 2011
Reprinted with permission by the author, Penny Ricketts
For one last time, let me see if I have this straight.
Greenfield was first approached with a 165,000-square-foot building to house Store X. It has been reduced to 135,000 [More...]
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The C.A.V.E. People
- Ben S. Clarke, How Well Do You Know Your Family?
For those who don't know, Ben S. Clarke is a "columnist" for our local newspaper, The Greenfield Recorder (I live in Greenfield, Massachusetts.) Ben S. Clarke's "contributions" to the Recorder customarily include offensive comments about everything in life, and he does it so eloquently every other week to the dismay [More...]
- How A "Big Box Store" Will Destroy Downtown Greenfield, Massachusetts
Originally posted January 18, 2011 - TheGreenfielder.Com
Really, I am sick and tired of the misleading comments regarding the impact of a potential large retail store on downtown Greenfield, Massachusetts. Today'sRecorder - who seems to allow more opponents than proponents to comment lately - shows another "My Turn" article written by Hazel [More...]
- Ben S. Clarke: Shopping And Dining Far Away From Greenfield, Massachusetts
Frankly, I get tired of my writing the day after pieces are published.
- Ben S. Clarke, August 18, 2010
If you live in Franklin County, Massachusetts, and you read the local newspaper, the Recorder, you can't avoid being confronted with Ben S. Clarke's lessons on life, may it be his dating [More...]
- Greenfield, Massachusetts: Where Most People Shop Out Of Town
Let me post another comment directed at the C.A.V.E. (= Citizens Against Virtually Everything) people of Greenfield, a.k.a. "Greenfield Coalition for a Sustainable Future," a.k.a. the politburo of Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Yesterday, I did the unspeakable yet again: My family and I drove to Northampton to shop at Walmart. In combination of [More...]
- Don’t Bury My Heart In Greenfield, Massachusetts
I am more 100 percent American than some of the born Americans. I resent some losses of freedom more quickly. I mean I want to be proud of my country, I think more than a born American does. That way I feel I am an immigrant. Otherwise I have never [More...]
Business
- Greenfield, Massachusetts And The Retail Development – "My Turn" by Penny Rickets
Reprinted from the Greenfield Recorder "My Turn" column (December 4, 2010) with permission received from the author, Penny Rickets.
Broaden the conversation
Let's hear from these groups on proposed store
Maybe 5 minutes is too long for public comment.
Of course I'm being sarcastic, but once you give people 5 minutes to weigh in [More...]
- Shop Outside of Greenfield, Massachusetts And Save Money
Just recently, members of the Greenfield Coalition for a Sustainable Future (whose identities are carefully hidden) plus a number of local businesses have started promotional actions to increase awareness of the "Walmart Issue." They encourage residents to shop local for a number of dubious reasons.
Before I go into more details, [More...]
- Motor Vehicle Registration – Please Take A Number…
It was time. After more than ten years of driving the same vehicle and after 146,000+ miles, my wife had to give up her Nissan Altima. It's a nice car with a great gas mileage of about 30 mpg (mixed city and highway), but ten harsh New England winters do [More...]
- Greenfield, Massachusetts: Not A Good Place For Medical Problems
After many years of knowing that my wisdom teeth would cause a problem eventually I finally had an appointment with a dental specialist in Hadley, Massachusetts. During the roughly thirty-minutes drive from Greenfield, Massachusetts to Hadley I wondered why I was driving more than twenty miles to see my dentist, [More...]
- Dubious Business in Greenfield, Massachusetts: Living Easy Spas and Contracting
This post is part of an article series on businesses in Greenfield, Massachusetts and Franklin County, Massachusetts. Click here to see all posts on the same subject.
Living Easy Spas & Contracting
My wife and I moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts in 2002, after we had bought a beautiful old farmhouse. The price [More...]
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