Greenfield Vintage Days 2023

The whole events schedule

And now for our contribution: videos from 1953 200th Anniversary celebration (on youTube)

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After the pan — local eats

Check out this Valley project promoting local restaurants:
https://www.413letsgoout.com/

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Find restaurants

Greenfield Savings bank has done a very extensive list of local restaurants.
BUT bank security limits the posting of the list and what you will find on their web site
is a PDF of the listing which has appeared in the Greenfield Recorder.

A more flexible version of the listing is here

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Franklin County “Take one, leave one” egg hunt

Please join us for a community egg hunt!
There will be a mapđź—ş of participating addresses put together before the event.
Anyone is welcome to join!
This will take place Saturday March 27th 2021 and go from 11am to 3pm!

More on the FB group and a map at:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/444190886781564
Map: Google map

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Travel in the time of pandemic

As many of you know, we have been traveling various places in the last few decades. We have written about our travels, as well as some of the museums we visited on our personal blogs. We have shared some of this in town at the senior center at Armchair travel talks. (Some of these are posted at Sharon’s blog)

As our business (now retired) was internet/web services, we took our interests in Art online with cataloging open source art work as well as a TV art wall for the DYI crowd.

This is a good time to share all this with you in one place. Much has been around for quite a while – now you have the time to explore.

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Covid-19 – resources: what is it and what to do

This includes a variety of local and global resource.
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New Library – About and Fund raising

 

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GCET and Tv alternatives

The essence of using GCET, esp when switching from a cable service like Comcast, is to understand that all services must now come via internet, not a video feed.  This means that any show (or movies, etc) that used to be watched on TV must now be found on an equivalent internet service.  This is simple when watching on a computer, tablet (iPad), or (modern) phone, since they all are directly connected to the internet, via wifi or internet wire.
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About Trees in Greenfield

Subject: Seven trees to be cut down – Public hearing May 12th
Reply-To: Mary Praus <marypraus@yahoo.com>

Hi All – As promised, attached is information I have compiled on the trees the DPW has tagged to be cut down. The assessment is based upon my good knowledge of trees (but I am not a licensed arborist).

The most important thing you can do is say “no” either by going to the hearing at 10AM on May 12 OR submit written comments by May 11th to the tree warden at paulr@greenfield-ma.gov and/or the DPW director at DonaldO@greenfield-ma.gov and please copy me. I will be at the hearing and will read or submit your comments if the DPW doesn’t acknowledge them.

The attached info will help inform you about the trees – if you don’t have time to look at it, then you could just write general comments including any of the following:
-that the town needs a dedicated budget for trees
-we should plant more than we take down
-trees lower cooling costs and raise property values
-trees improve water and air quality
-removing a tree should be a last resort.
-public trees are for the common good

Please let me know if you have any questions or ideas. And PLEASE attend the hearing. The DPW will be trying to take down additional trees this year – please let them know this is not okay.

Thanks very much!

Mary Praus

Tree Removal Map and Assessment

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Master Plan published – online soon – How to make it happen ?

More about Master plan

How will Greenfield implement master plan?

By ANITA FRITZ Recorder Staff

GREENFIELD — If the town’s Planning Board approves Greenfield’s new master plan on Feb. 6 — and there’s no reason to think it won’t because its members helped draft the plan — the next step will be to work out how to make the ideas reality.

If adopted, it will become Greenfield’s official guide for development, transportation, schools, housing and many other issues.

Eric Twarog, director of planning and development, said an implementation committee will need to be formed of residents, town leaders and board members.

That committee, he said, could propose new zoning laws, other types of ordinances, changes to permitting and licensing, and possibly even proposing changes in the town charter, which determines how the town’s government works.

Twarog said details about the committee, including how many people will serve on it, who will serve on it and what its charge will be, are to come.

Twarog said someone from the town’s Planning Department will most likely serve on an implementation committee and, he hopes, someone from Town Council.

“We’ll have to see about who else will be on it,” he said.

It has been suggested that Nancy Hazard, co-founder of Greening Greenfield and a member of the advisory committee, should serve on an implementation committee because of her knowledge about sustainability, a guiding theme of the master plan.

“There are a lot of ways residents can begin implementation,” said committee members Susan Worgaftik. “It can be done by all of us, not just the government.”

Some of the suggestions in the new plan include turning the former First National Bank building into a cultural center, the town becoming both a food and cultural hub, and improving public schools to attract out-of-town students.

■ An implementation committee will need to be formed of residents, town leaders and board members. That committee could propose new zoning laws, other types of ordinances, changes to permitting and licensing, and possibly even proposing changes in the town charter, which determines how the town’s government works.

Others include concentrating more on downtown development and redevelopment and preserving the town’s agricultural land and other open space.

While Twarog said the state currently does not require that state and local zoning laws are consistent with its master plan, like many other states do, he said the expectation is that town leaders and boards will follow the new plan.

Twarog, who has worked in planning for about 20 years, said he has worked on many master plans and said Greenfield’s latest is one of the most impressive, especially because of the sustainabilty aspect, which is built into every section.

He said the new plan will be available online by next week. To access the plan, visit: www.townofgreenfield. org.

Twarog said there will eventually be copies of the plan in the Planning Department at 114 Main St., in the town clerk’s office in Town Hall and in the library.

Anyone interested in serving on the plan’s implementation committee should contact Twarog at 413-772-1549 or email him at: erict@greenfield-ma. gov.

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