Holy Christmas

Ed Cameron has a new post

Required Reading

Friend, Neighbor and Ward 4 City Council Candidate Ed Cameron once again produces A Web Site With Some Insight. Check out this list of things you shouldn't do on a waterfront. Study them.

I actually thought I'd lifted this article from Ed once before but I was actually thinking of another piece.

Posts Lock of The Day

Held campaign signs for the first time in my life today. Neighbor and blogger Ed Cameron drew me out. He's running for Ward 4 Councilor against Erford Fowler, who was nice enough (or competitive enough) to give a polite wave and a smile as he drove by. I just think Ed has some great ideas for Ward 4 and the city. They are worth checking out.

Why am I telling you this? During the chit chat, I was asked for a prediction for tonight's game. I was foolish enough to offer one. I mean, is there any sport where predictions are more worthless than baseball. "Fox's Keys to the Game: Throw strikes, Keep Runners Off the Bases, blah, blah, blah.

Well, I made one so I might as well broadcast it for all the world (or at least the lot of you) to read.

Sox 8, Indians 3. Schilling goes 6. Papelbon goes 2.

I will not make a prediction about tomorrow's game (if we're lucky enough to have one.) Dice-K vs. Westbrook? Holy inconsistencies, Batman!

New Karp Link

Supersleuth Blogger Ed Cameron uncovered the web site for Karp's New England Development.

I added it to the links.

BTW, Ed also had a link to a great interview with uber-developer Norman Leventhal. He mentions one answer in his blog. I'd like to reference another.

He's referring, of course, to the new Greenway running where the Central Artery once did.

What do you think of the Greenway so far?
Superficially it looks OK. A lot has to be done. Personally, I was a proponent. But what do you do at nights, on a cold night? Post Office Square is wonderful, but during the night there is nothing. You have to have something there. Activity!

The same can be said for our Waterfront. In fact, I said it a few posts ago. Activity!

All Aboard

Read this on the always very interesting SEED email list.

Sounds like a great idea to me. It pertains directly to a point Ed Cameron made in his blog a week or so ago and less directly to an earlier post that I had--we need to incorporate the MBTA station into the downtown and, in this case, other attractions.

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Parker River National Wildlife Refuge Access Project
Tuesday, October 16, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center
6 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport
(enter off Ocean Ave/Rolf's Lane)
http://parkerriver. fws.gov

The Essex National Heritage Commission (ENHC) invites you to
participte in a public input meeting regarding the Parker River
National Wildlife Refuge Access Project, a planning effort to develop
a network of safe on- and off-road connections for pedestrians and
cyclists between the Newburyport MBTA commuter rail station and the
wildlife refuge and its visitor center. The project scope includes an
assessment of bicycle and pedestrian access in the vicinity of the
Route 1 traffic circle and redeveloping the former City Branch rail
corridor as part of the Clipper City Rail Trail. The project area
encompasses a portion of the Coastal Trails Network, an emerging 30-
mile system of walking and biking trails linking the communities of
Amesbury, Newbury, Newburyport and Salisbury. www.coastaltrails. org

For more information, call Bill Steelman at ENHC at 978-740-0444.