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etr wrote:
09:07 AM EST

Funny, there are just as many panhandlers and loiterers in downtown Greenfield yet I spend more time and money there and in Easthampton than I do in Northampton these days. Northampton just isn't very convenient for families. And apart from ordering take-out and buying the occasional high-end gift, it doesn't offer much that I need anymore--at least in the core of the downtown. Given the nature of the remaining shops and the composition of the crowds, Northampton increasingly has the feel of a regional tourist destination with a few (albeit important) remnants of a community center. ...(full comment)

Fewer Northampton benches in effort to curb loitering
mkask wrote:
09:04 AM EST

Turn the corner onto Gothic Street and you will discover that there are a dozen (or more) new benches alongside the new parking garage. I was wondering about these... Expensive and unlikely to be used. But there they are. ...(full comment)

Fewer Northampton benches in effort to curb loitering
Stewart wrote:
06:24 AM EST

thought I'd get the paragraphs i used..... ...(full comment)

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