Hey everyone, I just updated Holyoke's Social Network to take advantage of advanced links provided by
Apture.
When navigating around this website, you'll see that some links have been updated to provide additional information/multimedia that goes above & beyond a simple link to another page or file. The 'Apture' link above is an example... Go on, click it or hover your mouse over the little icon!
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Added by James Chevalier on October 18, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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I've updated the
C.R.U.S.H. website to include a much better
News From Around Holyoke page.
This page is an automatically-updated list of the last 10 entries from over twenty blogs, Flickr posts, YouTube posts, and news sources/searches that post in/about Holyoke. We're using this to push as many Holyoke-based updates as we can, so you could essentially get al…
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Added by James Chevalier on October 17, 2009 at 2:41pm —
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The next Party With a Purpose will take place on on September 24th from 7pm to 10pm in the Bungalow at the Waterfront!
This past year, Holyoke public schools had a graduation rate of 48%. Many residents are organizing to tackle this issue head on. Join us on the 24th to find out more about the issue at hand, and what we can all do about it.
Click here for the event listing in our calendar.
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Added by James Chevalier on September 19, 2009 at 1:52pm —
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Following on the success of our New Years Gala at the Wistariahurst Museum, Citizens for the Revitalization and Urban Success of Holyoke are hosting a Block Party on Sept 6th, 2009 from Noon to 7pm!
The Block Party will take place on Chestnut Street between Hampden and Dwight Streets adjacent to Veterans Park and Holyoke Catholic School. This location is in the heart of our beautiful downtown area, and is within a block of the main Post Office & City Hall.
Join us for a huge list of offeri…
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Added by James Chevalier on September 2, 2009 at 10:23am —
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I recently heard that
Facebook purchased
FriendFeed, so I decided to give it a go...
It's a bit of a cross between a personalized
RSS Feed,
Twitter, and a blogging service like
BlogSpot,
Tumblr,…
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Added by James Chevalier on August 19, 2009 at 4:22pm —
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I found
this article at
Boston.com talking about how Holyoke has been chosen for a pretty massive data center project!
John Aubin's
Holyoke 2020 plan should get a hefty boost from this...
I'm so excited I'm shaking a little bit ... or maybe that's the morning coffee I just had too much of...
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Added by James Chevalier on June 10, 2009 at 8:44am —
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I've taken the time to add the list of candidates for the upcoming election over at
c.r.u.s.h.'s site. You can have a look through
the candidates here.
At the moment, it's just names & positions, but I hope more information will be added as time goes by.
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Added by James Chevalier on June 6, 2009 at 2:28pm —
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I don't have one up on
my Wikipedia page, and there's nothing coming up in a
Google Image Search...
Can anyone help me out?
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Added by James Chevalier on June 5, 2009 at 11:50am —
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See
PlanetHazard's website for the map & some Science.
From their About page...
"
PlanetHazard has mapped over 86,000 companies throughout the United States that emit hazardous air pollutants and criteria air pollutants. We have done this so that you can learn what companies are releasing into the air in your area. You may search this site nat…
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Added by James Chevalier on June 3, 2009 at 4:36pm —
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I have (another) overly ambitious idea for a project that I can't possibly do on my own. I'd like to know if there's any interest in this project, so here it goes...
The idea for this project is to have a wiki site (see
Wikipedia for the mother of all examples) that aims to be the hub for all the information that you'll need to locate and renovate property in Holyoke.
Now, I don't want to re-invent anything. So, for property values (for exam…
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Added by James Chevalier on May 14, 2009 at 7:35pm —
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For immediate release
May 8, 2009
Contact: Wendy Fox
617-626-1453
PATRICK ADMINISTRATION LAUNCHES PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF FOREST STEWARDSHIP
Forums and online conversations will facilitate public input
Keeping to Governor Patrick’s commitment to civic engagement, the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has launched a public process to discuss the future stewardship and management of state forest lands, including public forums and online discussions.
“We are committed to havin…
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Added by James Chevalier on May 11, 2009 at 1:07pm —
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This one is coming through from WWLP - I got it straight from
their twitter account - and was written by Adam Strzempko.
The Holyoke Farmers’ Market kicked-off Thursday morning in front of Holyoke City Hall. It included singing and the raising of the Special Olympics flag.
Farmers from a number of farms across western Massachusetts were on hand wit…
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Added by James Chevalier on May 7, 2009 at 4:29pm —
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The Man Who's Everywhere, Ken Ross, is at it again - this time he can also be spotted over at the Girls Inc site with the
article that's reproduced from the
MassLive post ...
After two years of meetings, a unified plan to address the city's high teenage birthrate was finalized this week by city officials and community groups.
"Thi…
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Added by James Chevalier on May 6, 2009 at 2:27pm —
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This is
another article from The Republican Newsroom
found on MassLive ... Ken Ross must have some serious carpal tunnel with the sheer number of words he's pushing out!
City officials hope to clean up a former industrial site on Appleton Street at an estimated cost of $116,000.
"We were lucky," said senior City Planner Karen Mendrala earlier this week. "It's only a small area" to clean up…
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Added by James Chevalier on May 6, 2009 at 2:22pm —
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I found
this article by Ken Ross in my
RSS Feed
Reader just a couple minutes ago...
Opponents of a proposed Lowe's home improvement store who filed a lawsuit against the project claim that the City Council improperly prohibited certain people from signing a petition opposed to the project, according to the su…
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Added by James Chevalier on May 5, 2009 at 4:07pm —
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Truth be told, I haven't followed our Waste Transfer Station hearings as close as I could have. So, I apologize if I'm a bit late with this, or if it doesn't directly apply to our unique situation.
Basically, I took a few minutes out of my day to do a quick search through YouTube for some examples of Solid Waste Transfer Stations. I figured I'd be able to form a better opinion about the issue if I had some Real World™ examples to look at...
I found this video that goes through a short tour of…
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Added by James Chevalier on May 4, 2009 at 4:49pm —
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I'm pulling this article directly off of the
WWLP site ... I actually came across this article via twitter, by reading
their page!
This article attributes two authors:
Jackie Bruno
Matt Caron
In honor of Arbor Day, the Holyoke Parks and Recreation Department was handing out trees.
Free Eastern Redbud or River Birch Seedlings were given out to Holyoke residents…
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Added by James Chevalier on April 24, 2009 at 8:22am —
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I've pulled the following text straight from MassLive
here and
here. The first article is written by Ken Ross, and the second article doesn't cite an author:
HOLYOKE - An office furniture company has bought a 230,000-square-foot former paper company…
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Added by James Chevalier on April 20, 2009 at 8:34am —
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I've been in the lab, inventing words and working to bring c.r.u.s.h. (and Holyoke) into the Future (or at least keep it up to date)...
c.r.u.s.h. is on Twitter!
Twitter defines itself as "a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" The service gets really cool, however, when you get away from that question...
You can…
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Added by James Chevalier on April 18, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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I got this one from Twitter, straight from
Deval Patrick (or whoever is running his Twitter account).
You can read the original article here, though I believe I copied everything over...
Massachusetts Recovery Plan and investments in education to promote improvement in teaching and learning efforts fo…
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Added by James Chevalier on April 9, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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