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By CLAUDIA LEFKO

I had my own Officer Obie experience last week — as in Alice’s Restaurant Officer Obie. NPD Officer Jeff Staples knocked on our door: we’ve had a complaint about the street painting, he said.

By CLAUDIA LEFKO

“I will say, from my own belief and experience, that imagination thrives on contact, on tangible connection. For humans to have a responsible relationship to the world, they must imagine their places in it. To have a place, to live and belong in a place, to live from a place without destroying it, we must imagine it. By imagination we see it illuminated by its own unique character and by our love for it. By imagination we recognize with sympathy the fellow members, human and nonhuman, with whom we share our place.” — Wendell Berry, August 2016

By CLAUDIA LEFKO

 The day was crisp, sunny and cool — perfect for walking or moving around the city in a wheelchair. Good weather to kick off the National Week Without Driving campaign.A few of us, residents concerned about walkability/moveability in Northampton,...

By CLAUDIA LEFKO

“The pedestrian is an extremely fragile species, the canary in the coal mine of urban livability.” — Jeff Speck, “Walkable City,” 2012 Something’s missing from the still very lively debate about Picture Main Street, from the city’s website on that...