Lining up at Puffer's Pond Pancake Breakfast
It seemed a little less crowded this year compared to last at the 22nd Annual Puffer's Pond Pancake Breakfast, a fundraiser for the most popular conservation area in Amherst.
Puffer's Pond Pancake Breakfast: A family oriented event
Perhaps it was the oppressive heat or maybe because last year family and friends held a tribute remembrance ceremony to honor revered town icon Stephen Puffer. In my coverage last year I noted how folks on both side of the bitterly contested Village Center Form Based Zoning article (which narrowly failed) were all present, but seemed to sit at different tables.
This year of course the ever-so-related bitter controversy is Article 43, which seeks to kill a much needed taxpaying student housing development in northeast Amherst; but with use of town government's nuclear option, eminent domain.
Isn't Amherst supposed to be a "Nuclear Free Zone?"
Volunteer wearing "Stop The Retreat" button and donated W.D. Cowls, Inc apron
Clearly this woman likes the Cowls and supports their family and enterprise but objects to the retreat project, that is not a contradiction.
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