Stan Moulton

The City Council on Feb.1 unanimously approved a complete revision of the zoning ordinance regulating outdoor lighting that was last updated in 2007. The new ordinance reflects current light-emitting diode (LED) technology and fine-tunes restrictions on glare and other impacts of outdoor lights on neighboring properties and the sky. It [...]

City Council President Alex Jarrett on Jan. 8 announced committee assignments for this term, and again I will serve on the Finance Committee. My other assignment is on the Committee on City Services, which is responsible for matters related to the activities and operation of municipal government and reviews all [...]

The City Council during its organizational meeting Wednesday elected Alex Jarrett of Ward 5 as president. He defeated Rachel Maiore of Ward 7. She was elected vice president over at-large councilor Marissa Elkins. I joined Elkins, at-large councilor Garrick Perry and Marianne LaBarge of Ward 6 in supporting Jarrett for [...]

The City Council on Dec. 21 voted unanimously to accept a $200,000 gift from Smith College to help pay for designing and constructing safety improvements for pedestrians on West and Elm streets near the campus. The donation was announced that week when Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra and Smith President Sarah Willie-LeBreton [...]

Spending $18,000 for a proposed universal-access trail from the Cooke Avenue entrance to the Broad Brook Greenway is one of six projects recommended by the Community Preservation Committee that the City Council considered on Tuesday, Dec. 5. The unpaved, one-third-mile trail, known as Boggy Meadow Road, would allow users of [...]

Beit Ahavah, the Reform Synagogue of Greater Northampton, was the victim of a hate crime when it was attacked with an emailed bomb threat on Sunday, Nov. 19. That led to the evacuation of the building at 130 Pine St. in Florence, which the synagogue shares with the Florence Congregational [...]