The two arrows do not take up much space but are a tad ugly
In addition to seeking permission to move Hope the cow across the street to Relocation Park, pointman Jerry Gates also asked the Public Arts Commmission to support his quest to remove the temporary arrow signs the DPW installed back in the early 1970s when North Pleasant Street was initially realigned.
Jerry Gates (right) at Public Arts Commission meeting 12/17/15
That traffic project created a small island of turf where the road once ran, and in 1994 the Public Arts Commission approved the art project called, appropriately enough, "Realignment Park".
The Business Improvement District uncovered and now maintains the pocket park
Hope is designed to hold three large football lineman
Hope will be reinstalled just outside the art work footprint to the north, close to where the DPW road signs are currently located and she will continue to face west. The Design Review Board already gave permission for the move but wish to see whatever signage is attached to Hope.
The Select Board, as keepers of the public way, have final approval over the relocation and the removal of the aging "temporary" DPW road signs.
You've been scooped on the Amherst story of all time:
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"if it sounds to good to be true ..."
ReplyDeleteUgliest piece of "art" ever made.
ReplyDeleteBeauty is in the eye of the beholder.
ReplyDeleteSo they should waste money on this shit, but a nice recreational facility like the golf course should go? Add up all the little shit this town wastes it's money on and it puts the $100k lost at the golf course to shame. Yeah, let's save another wall no one ever sees or cares about.
ReplyDeleteActually Jerry Gates is paying to move her, so no cost to taxpayers. Just as the game of golf should not be subsidized by hard pressed taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteLarry, what is your opinion on municipal golf courses in every town in America?
ReplyDeleteEvert town in America doesn't have a golf course.
ReplyDeleteGovernment should not be in the golf business. Or downhill skiing.
Government can't even handle the Government Business...
DeleteI respect your opinion Larry and know I likely won't change your opinion on the matter but the presence of municipal golf courses has proved an economic benefit, especially in the summer months, in countless towns across Massachusetts.
ReplyDeleteThat's just flat out dead wrong.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I like the "especially in the summer months" part. Cherry Hill did not seem to be doing well when I was there the other day.
"Government should not be in the golf business. Or downhill skiing."
ReplyDeleteSays you.
Yeah, says me. Wanna fight about it?
ReplyDeleteThere needs to be SOMETHING there -- in fog or snow, the sober, rational driver is going to think the road goes straight, as it once did.
ReplyDeleteThere absolutely needs to be some form of reflective yellow signage, or a bunch of white markers along the curb, like on I-91. And it must be ABOVE the curb -- think 2" of unplowed snow.
My concern is motorcycle and bicycle, the latter which are ridden in the snow.
Someone hitting that curb head-on at 25-30 MPH would land on his.her.its head and likely die...
There's a couple large trees there now (that were pretty small when planted over 40 years ago.)
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many "unique" customers play at Cherry Hill, as opposed to rounds played. I'm getting at, it's probably a very, very small percentage of the town's population, and they are probably mostly adult males, probably white but whatever.
ReplyDeleteWith the same average age as Amherst Town Meeting: ancient.
ReplyDeleteAgeist. Ancient? Celebrate diversity.
ReplyDeleteI embrace it (hugging myself right now).
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