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Hassan comments on "New oil change and inspection facility opens"

2009-12-13T11:04:07-04:00

Wish you success.

Bing comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2009-12-11T08:58:52-04:00

I cannot believe this even became a controversy! I went to U-Mass for my first two semesters and quickly transferred to UNH for this very reason. You guys are out of your minds.

Ghasem comments on "New oil change and inspection facility opens"

2009-09-04T16:33:49-04:00

Great,
Lot's of congrats for your new business, hope you develop it all over the country....

Joe Cerrear comments on "New oil change and inspection facility opens"

2009-08-23T10:46:59-04:00

I loved it@!

Tatiana comments on "Soak up the silence at Emily's house"

2009-03-11T19:42:19-04:00

i AM 8 IN 2ND GRADE AND i FEEL SHE WRITES A LOT ABOUT DEATH. I KINDA UNDERSTAND HER POEM. i AM NOBODY ARE YOU NOBODY? WAS FUNNY TO SEE ON VIDEO.

howard kight comments on "All you need to know to pay town taxes on-line"

2008-12-13T13:10:36-04:00

Thanks for posting this very informative, step by step guide. I look forward to using it this year for the first time and will do my best to spread the word.

howard

Larry Kelley comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-16T10:26:01-04:00

The year before the private parade organizers banned gay marchers at the Boston St. Patty’s Day Parade, the KKK did apply to march and were rejected. That was before the “controversy.”

And quite frankly if I were in charge of that Parade I would have let the gays march—but only if they were Irish of course (thus staying within bounds of the “theme”) and unlike Iran the Irish do have gay folks--and hey, now they can even marry in California as well as Massachusetts, something I also support.

Actually the golf course has been losing tax money (and I have been pointing that out) for twenty-one years now. And although you have not been in Town Meeting that long Professor, a few have, and probably missed the irony that Vince is whining for more money for the Jones Library and nobody in town meeting is more responsible for the original Cherry Hill fiasco than he.

A golf course we could have had for free but ended up spending the most money in town history to take it by eminent domain, something our Conservation folks had in mind for the South East street property owned by Scott Nielson.

anonymous comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-15T18:22:52-04:00

Why does everything in Amherst have to be such a big deal. If the super-duper, more-patriotic-than-thou patriots, who believe that dissent is unpatriotic, just let the few people who wanted to participate with protest signs, march, then that would have been the end of it. They could have just ignored them if they wanted. But no...it had to become an issue. If it weren't such a big issue (did anybody get us onto Letterman for this? I can't remember), then nobody could absurdly invoke KKK as a possibility Why on earth would the KKK want to come to little old Amherst if the parade weren't such a contentious issue? Alternatively, if those who demand that they have a right to rain on the "I'm more patriotic than you" parade just let those people have their patriotic parade, and maybe organize their own less-flag-waving parade of their own, then it wouldn't be such a big thing. Free speech, right to assemble, right to keep people out of my parade, etc., etc.,...... all very important issues. But if the people on the fringes of Amherst (maybe 10 % ?) could just learn the art of compromise and perhaps tolerance, then the other 90% of us could just go on with our lives in what could be our idyllic little town. We have plenty to worry about without constantly hearing from people who don't get their way on the parade, the golf course (It's been around 20 years now. Can't we move on from this one?).

friendly neighbour comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-15T15:13:22-04:00

When I think about Independence day parades, I think of a nostalgic ideal. I think of wide-eyed children and togetherness, or community. It represents wonder, innocence and a peaceful thankfulness.

I remember in particular a 4th of July parade in Leicester, Mass. on the bicentennial (1976). I can see in my mind red-white-and-blue streamers in the spokes of bicycles and people sitting on folding chairs on their front lawns.

I love to imagine the 4th of July that way.

me comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-14T15:00:30-04:00

me: Knock knock
Matt: Who's there?
me: Smell Mype
Matt: Smell Mype Who

Matt comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-14T12:14:14-04:00

Lol @ Amherst!

You can't even fix your potholes or plow your roads.

You are a silly town filled with silly people.

Did you know your town is laughed at all over Massacusetts?

From Kelly to O'Connor and all in between!

Larry Kelley comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-07T06:19:00-04:00

The ACLU believes that the way to counter bad speech is with good speech (and some in this town view patriotism as “bad”.)

Having a 'Patriotic Parade' and another 'Protest Parade', each with equal access to town roads and the general public fits perfectly those parameters.
http://blog.masslive.com/kelsey/

Nancy comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-06T15:00:23-04:00

I agree. A much simpler and more fair solution than using our tax dollars.

Ethel comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-05T17:21:28-04:00

I like that solution, Neil. That is what we have been saying for five years. But, the Chosen still want to rain on our parade. The audience is much greater for us than it would be for them.
Things will work out if they would just stop being so selfish and fend for themselves.

neil comments on "When a parade becomes a circus"

2008-05-05T12:01:39-04:00

Here's an idea:

How about a protest-free Independence Day Parade followed by a protest-rally or visa versa?

The Independence Day protest advocate groups - Amherst Democratic Town Committee, Amherst Republican Town Committee, the Green Party, the League of Women Voters and the anti-war group SAGE - could join together to organize, pull the permit and raise funds to finance it. That way we don’t have town government raising funds to finance a protest parade that citizens may or may not want their town government facilitating. Furthermore, the solution of having the aforementioned groups initiate their own solution, raise their own funds, accomplish their owns goal without terminating the seven-year tradition of a protest-free Independence Day Parade is process parallel to the Parade Committee’s work since 2002.

Best of all, the solution recognizes the protest advocates free speech right to protest and the Parade Committee's free speech right of association.