I agree with Hampshire County Sheriff Patrick Cahillane (“A case for ‘smaller is smarter’ at Hampshire County Jail,” Oct. 6.) that smaller jails, and I add smaller prisons, are better. However, when jails lock up fewer people as the Hampshire.
NORTHAMPTON Two residents of Warfield Place are suing the Northampton Department of Public Works for its actions in cutting down nine cherry trees on their street as part of a repaving plan, claiming that workers continued removing the last.
Two arrested as cherry trees come down on Warfield Place in Northampton >A Northampton Police officer try s to talk Liz Gaudet into climbing out of the Cherry Tree on Warfield Place so the trees could be cut down Thursday, July 29, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS >A Northampton Police officer try s to talk Katie Young into climbing out of the Cherry Tree on Warfield Place so the trees could be cut down Thursday, July 29, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS >Northampton Police officers arrest Liz Gaudet who refused to climb out of a Cherry Tree on Warfield Place so the trees could be cut down Thursday, July 29, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Last hurrah for the cherry trees of Northampton’s Warfield Place
Lois Ahrens, a resident on Warfield Place, talks about what the cherry trees mean to her and her neighbors. The city is planning to take the trees down as part of a project to repave the road and widen the sidewalk to bring it into ADA compliance. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Ruth Ozeki, a resident on Warfield Place, talks about what the cherry trees mean to her and her community. The city is planning to take the trees down as part of a project to repave the road and widen the sidewalks to make them ADA compliant. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
People sometimes ask me to point to a moment in my life that set me on a path to public office. The following is one of those moments.In the early 1970s, the doorbell rang in a sprawling Sisters of St. Joseph convent in the Brooklyn Heights.