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Updates from Greening Greenfield
August 31, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
Local Public Information Session, October 10, 2024 for CT River Hydro Relicensing
The MassDEP webpage for the 401 WQC for the FirstLight Hydroelectric Re-Licensing Project now has information regarding the upcoming public information session hosted by MassDEP on October 10, 2024…
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August 31, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
Discovering intelligence growing all around us, Pat Hynes
Reprinted from The Greenfield Recorder, 09/05/2024 From the largest to the smallest and the oldest to the youngest creatures on Earth — Antarctic blue whales and coastal redwood trees, minute bacte…
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August 30, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
Housing Greenfield Meeting Notes – September 9, 2024
Present: Susan Worgaftik, Peg Hall, Chuck Green, Amy Clarke, Anna Oltman, Alyssa Larose, Joannah Whitney, Shaundell Diaz, Charity Day, Amy Cahillane, Jessa McCormack, Mitchell Speight, Joan Marie J…
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August 29, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
Greening Greenfield Highlighted in FCCDC News
If you know Greenfield, you probably know Millers Meadow. It’s the flat expanse of city-owned land on between the Green River and Colrain Road that used to be a mobile home park. Before that, it wa…
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August 7, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
Renters Struggle with Competing Costs of Food, Energy, and Housing
A timely article article from Harvard University’s Center for Housing Studies by Sophia Wedeen. Lower-income renters continued to face extraordinary financial hardships in the first half of 2024, a…
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August 6, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
Housing Greenfield Meeting Notes – August 5, 2024
Present: Susan Worgaftik, Peg Hall, Chuck Green, Amy Clarke, Anna Oltman, Alyssa Larose, Joannah Whitney, Shaundell Diaz, Charity Day, Versa Clarke, Jan Maher, Amy Cahillane, Christine Madore, Na…
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July 12, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
Paint amendment and Mattress Extended Producer Responsibility bills
Paint was once again an amendment, this time to the Senate Economic Development bill, and once again, sadly, it was pulled – meaning it wasn’t voted down, that’s the most we can say. Someone in le…
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June 18, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
Housing Greenfield Meeting Notes June 17, 2024
Encampment Projects The Community Education Regarding Encampments…The committee met and determined that this effort should be a more long term one. We are planning to develop a program which wil…
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May 3, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
CT River Delegation posts final FERC comments
Massachusetts Senators and Representatives who represent cities and towns along the Connecticut River and its tributaries have posted their comments to the FERC on May 1, 2024. This is an excellen…
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March 27, 2024 | Edie Heinemann | Updates
New Comments to FERC on Connecticut River Relicensing
Through May 22, 2024, many people are commenting to the FERC on the overall FirstLight application. This is a sampling of some of those recent comments, generally from individuals rather than orga…
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New Comments to FERC on Connecticut River Relicensing