inAmherst.com - recent comments http://www.inamherst.com/ News and happenings in Amherst, MA en-us 2011-12-11T20:57:19-04:00 Jennifer comments on "M&M Links is part of cinema building's revival" I am thrilled with the two necklaces I purchased this weekend at the Holiday Fair in Madison CT.I will look for your store in Amherst next time I am up that way.

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2006/10/mm_links_is_part_of_cinema_bui.html#003316 Jennifer 2011-11-07T14:37:04-04:00 Dive Sipadan comments on "Tabella Restaurant opens in cinema building" +1 on that

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2006/10/tabella_restaurant_opens_in_cinema_building.html#003314 Dive Sipadan 2011-05-05T04:50:55-04:00 Marianne comments on "Emily Dickinson conference includes public events" I love Emily Dickinson for ever!

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2006/10/emily_dickinson_conference_inc.html#003310 Marianne 2011-02-23T18:51:38-04:00 The Big Bully comments on "Recap of the March 10th Select Board Meeting" AMHERST — Voters here are on the cusp of deciding the fate of a $1.68 million override at the March 23 town elections.
Proponents say the override will preserve essential town, school and library operations; opponents believe that town government is already rife with waste, and that now is the time for belt tightening. The override would add about $264 to the annual tax bill for a resident who owns a $334,600 home.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette and the Amherst Bulletin will help voters sort it all out, with an override forum slated for Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Town Room at Town Hall.
The forum is open to the public, and two panelists will field questions from the audience and from public at large via email and mail.
The panelists are Andy Churchill, override advocate and outgoing Amherst School Committee member, and Stan Gawle, override opponent and spokesman for Amherst Taxpayers for Responsible Change.
The event will be broadcast live on ACTV channel 17, and streamed live on actvamherst.com. A Webcast will be available on Wednesday at the ACTV Web site, and the event will be covered in the print edition of the Daily Hampshire Gazette and on GazetteNET.com.
The forum will be moderated by Gazette/Bulletin staff, and all questions from the public will be directed to the panelists by a moderator.
Questions for the panelists may be brought to the forum or emailed in advance. Send questions to noah@gazettenet.com, or call Bulletin editor Noah Hoffenberg at 585-5254 for more information.

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2008/03/recap_of_the_march_10th_select.html#003296 The Big Bully 2010-03-11T17:09:54-04:00 Hassan comments on "New oil change and inspection facility opens" Wish you success.

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2007/04/new_oil_change_and_inspection.html#003295 Hassan 2009-12-13T11:04:07-04:00 Bing comments on "When a parade becomes a circus" 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.

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2008/04/when_a_parade_becomes_a_circus.html#003294 Bing 2009-12-11T08:58:52-04:00 Ghasem comments on "New oil change and inspection facility opens" Great,
Lot's of congrats for your new business, hope you develop it all over the country....

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2007/04/new_oil_change_and_inspection.html#003293 Ghasem 2009-09-04T16:33:49-04:00 Joe Cerrear comments on "New oil change and inspection facility opens" I loved it@!

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2007/04/new_oil_change_and_inspection.html#003292 Joe Cerrear 2009-08-23T10:46:59-04:00 Tatiana comments on "Soak up the silence at Emily's house" 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.

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2006/10/soak_up_the_silence_at_emilys_house.html#003273 Tatiana 2009-03-11T19:42:19-04:00 howard kight comments on "All you need to know to pay town taxes on-line" 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

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2006/10/all_you_need_to_know_to_pay_town_taxes_on-line.html#003272 howard kight 2008-12-13T13:10:36-04:00 Larry Kelley comments on "When a parade becomes a circus" 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.

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2008/04/when_a_parade_becomes_a_circus.html#003231 Larry Kelley 2008-05-16T10:26:01-04:00 anonymous comments on "When a parade becomes a circus" 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?).

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2008/04/when_a_parade_becomes_a_circus.html#003229 anonymous 2008-05-15T18:22:52-04:00 friendly neighbour comments on "When a parade becomes a circus" 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.

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2008/04/when_a_parade_becomes_a_circus.html#003228 friendly neighbour 2008-05-15T15:13:22-04:00 me comments on "When a parade becomes a circus" me: Knock knock
Matt: Who's there?
me: Smell Mype
Matt: Smell Mype Who

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2008/04/when_a_parade_becomes_a_circus.html#003226 me 2008-05-14T15:00:30-04:00 Matt comments on "When a parade becomes a circus" 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!

]]> http://www.inamherst.com/2008/04/when_a_parade_becomes_a_circus.html#003225 Matt 2008-05-14T12:14:14-04:00