Greenfield's Future

The Greenfield Public Library (Friends of) is holding a raffle to get lots of good restaurant gifts cards.


Click to buy raffle

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

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

Please join us for a community egg hunt!
There will be a map🗺 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

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.

This includes a variety of local and global resource.
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• Friends of the Library
• Library foundation:
  Donation Pledge

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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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