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May 30, 2007
FRONT PAGE - Around the town Week of May 30th
Post your thoughts about News worthy articles, events, happenings, garage sales, and general information regarding our town.
I will be starting these weekly postings now on Wednesdays.
Judy
Posted by judy at 09:19 PM | Comments (66)
May 24, 2007
FRONT PAGE - Around the town Week of May 25th
Post your thoughts about News worthy articles, events, happenings, garage sales, and general information regarding our town.
Have a Safe Holiday Weekend!
Judy
Posted by judy at 07:29 AM | Comments (61)
May 21, 2007
Curious....
Sidewalks are a vital part of a city’s infrastructure and one of the most overlooked aspects. A few years ago, the city required that subdivisions have sidewalks at least on one side of the street.
Many years ago Portland was a city with connecting sidewalks, but as years went by, the sidewalks degraded and new ones were not added.
Today we are greatly lacking in connectivity and it is hard to promote pedestrian traffic without sidewalks. Those with disabilities have told me that it is extremely hard for them to navigate town, and that there are many places they have to enter onto the roadway on there scooter because there is no sidewalk. Crossing the railroad tracks is another problem.
One example of an area in great need of sidewalks is HWY 52 East between 109 and South Russell Street. This stretch of road going over the over-pass is highly traveled by pedestrians, but there is no sidewalk.
There are many regulations, construction, and right-a-way problems involved in creating these sidewalks on existing roads, but I believe we need to try.
So I have a couple of questions I ask you to consider and respond:
1. Should sidewalks be required on both sides of the road in new subdivisions?
2. Should sidewalks be required when new commercial is built?
3. Should the city pay to refurbish old sidewalks and pay to build new ones in certain areas, so that areas can be connected?
Posted by Councilman Callis at 08:57 PM | Comments (25) | TrackBack
Strawberry Festival
I for one thought this last weekend was one of the most successful festivals this town has hosted in years. I could not help but notice the amount of people that were around Main St and Market St. I was glad to see so many people came to visit our little town. The Chamber did a good job with having 'Event Staff' personnel to help keep the crowd and kids away from the parade. Lot more FLOATS in the parade, good to see more people participating. I did not attend the concert, so I cant comment on it. What did everyone else think about it about and what would you like to see done next yr to make it bigger and better.
I for one would like to see a 10k race in the Strawberry Stride and maybe continue to grow to a half marathon in the yrs to come.
Posted by David at 11:24 AM | Comments (10)
May 18, 2007
A free public service ... or litter?
Each week The Tennessean throws a rolled-up copy of their want-ads into my front yard. (I don't subscribe to The Tennessean.) They apparently throw one in everybody's yard in Portland.
To me this is littering. I go around with a trash bag and pick up fast-food wrappers, beer cans, cola bottles, etc. that people have tossed out in my yard. The Tennessean want-ads go into the same trash bag.
How do other people feel about the want-ads? If this a good, free public service or a company throwing trash out around Portland?
Posted by admin at 09:09 AM | Comments (42)
May 16, 2007
FRONT PAGE Around the town - Week of May 18th
Post your thoughts about News worthy articles, events, happenings, garage sales, and general information regarding our town.
Hope to see many posts!
Lots going on this week with Strawberry Fest & Hwy 52 Garage Sale.
Have a fun & safe weekend!
Posted by judy at 09:26 PM | Comments (97)
May 11, 2007
Blog Direction
I would like to ask for everyone's opinion. As you might know, NMT Web Designs, LLC provides this blog as a community service, and I am the administrator of the blog.
The software which runs this blog is Movable Type. This was recommended to us years ago by Brian Ruckle. The big problem I have with the software is (as you've found out), an author has the ability to delete his or her entry. Deleting an entry, in my opinion, should be an administrative function, but Movable Type does not allow this option.
I have been looking at other blog software over the last few days, and it all seems to work the same: if you can create an entry, you can delete your entry.
This leaves me two choices:
1. Leave the blog exactly as it is today. A person who writes an entry has total control over it, including the ability to delete it (and all the comments associated with it).
2. I can take away everyone's ability to create entries. People who want to have a new entry would e-mail it to me, and I would post it. That means that the person who submitted the entry to me can't delete it.
Please note that both of the choices above do not affect comments. Anybody can post a comment anytime.
Comments? Suggestions? Other approaches? Thoughts?
Thanks!
Charlie
Posted by admin at 11:44 AM | Comments (33)
FRONT PAGE around the town - Week of May 11th
As requested by Deanna, I am starting this topic for you to post your thoughts about News worthy articles, events, happenings, garage sales, and general information. I thought it was a good idea and perhaps will start a new page every week so we keep current information out front on the blog.
Thanks for the GREAT idea Deanna!
Happy Posting - Judy
Posted by judy at 07:05 AM | Comments (19)
May 09, 2007
BLOG TOPICS Being Deleted - Is this Fair
I don't know if anyone has realized this but many topics of discussion have recently been deleted from this Blog, I know as a Blog Author (one that can start new topics) that you can go and delete topics that you (as the author) have started, Have I ever done so.... NO, but it appears that atleast ONE Author has. I myself find this disturbing, look around for yourself and see who's topics are missing. I've gone and sorted the topics and one particular name/author is no longer showing which either means He/She or Administration deleted the many many topics they had authored on this site. I stumbled upon this because there was a topic this person started that I wanted to revisit for review of a post and it is no longer there, so then I looked for others, and poof they are gone. With that I ask why do we bother posting on this blog!
Posted by judy at 07:22 AM | Comments (25)
May 02, 2007
May Elections.... What do you think?
The May 1st 2007 Elections have come and gone.
How do you feel about the results?
I watched Channel 3 until they went off the air, which wasn't Official, but might as well been, anyone who has the Official Results could you please post. Thanks - Judy
Posted by judy at 09:13 AM | Comments (121)