Natick middle and high school students will have a chance to share their visions for what downtown should look like, under a new Kids Create Natick Center program meeting Wednesdays from Feb. 28 to March 28, 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Kids-Connect (43 Main St.)
Working with two architects, they’ll be given “real-world maps and plans [...]
Archive for January, 2007
"Kids Create Natick Center"
January 30, 2007Is New York City Losing Its Pedestrian Edge?
January 29, 2007Is New York City – the only city in America where more than half its residents don’t take private cars to work – losing its pedestrian edge?
Author Robert Sullivan thinks so. In a thoughtful N.Y. Times op-ed piece, he worries that “as far as pedestrian issues go, New York is acting more like the rest [...]
The New Mall’s Impact on Natick, cont. Um, What About Framingham?
January 28, 2007
The Boston Globe’s West edition has written yet another article about the Natick mall expansion in the works, including breathless marketing-like phrases such as “Developers aren’t just adding size. They are adding swank and high style to the staid indoor mall of decades past.” Swank and high style? Because of “a rolling gold sign that [...]
Not Keeping Us Safe On Our Highways
January 28, 2007Tens of thousands of Americans die in motor vehicle accidents every year, yet the U.S. government is falling down on the job of determining what engineering advances such as vehicle designs are most likely to save our lives (let alone mandating such things). An American’s odds of dying in a motor vehicle accident is substantially [...]
Final Update on the Radio Interference: WBIX Calls At Last
January 25, 2007I finally got a call today from an engineer at WBIX. So I’m happy to say they were responsive at last, if belatedly. The engineer was prepared to try to help me deal with the problem, but the more prompt and responsive folks at Verizon have already taken care of it for me. He said [...]
Verizon Solves My WBIX Radio Woes
January 24, 2007It looks like a happy ending to my WBIX interference problem – no thanks to the radio station. Verizon sent two techs to our house this morning and put a great filter on the line coming into the house. That seems to have solved our problem! I made a couple of calls this morning, and [...]
Saxonville Summit on Feb. 5
January 24, 2007Friends of Saxonville is organizing a summit to discuss their local initiatives, as well as explore other ideas for neighborhood activities and ways of enhancing the area. They invite people, whether members or not, to come and share their interests and ideas, and of course volunteer assistance! All who are interested in the environmental, cultural, recreational and [...]
WBIX Radio Signal So Loud on My Phones That I Can’t Use My Landline During Daylight Hours
January 22, 2007I’d sure love to know who decided WBIX could broadcast at 40,000 watts of power from the WKOX transmitters. Whoever it was likely doesn’t live within 3 miles of said transmitter. I do, and their signal is so loud on all the landline telephones in my house that I no longer can use my home [...]
