There are weeks when the city hums like a well-behaved beehive—predictable, industrious, and blissfully dull. And then there are weeks like this one, when the honey is dripping from places it absolutely shouldn’t be. If you felt a faint tremor while stirring your coffee yesterday, relax. It wasn’t the subway. It was reputations quietly rearranging…
After six months of planning, two committee name changes, and one very focused debate about font choice, Maple Crossing officially unveiled its new “Welcome” sign on Main Street last Friday. By Monday morning, residents had already adapted by not seeing it at all. The sign, positioned prominently at the town’s eastern entrance, features the town…
Good morning, my end‑of‑year llamas. If the city feels like it’s hovering between “reflective” and “please don’t make me have one more conversation,” that’s because we’ve entered the narrow window where everyone is pretending to be calm while quietly inventorying regrets. Let’s start with the downtown office towers, where an impressive number of workers were…
The town’s newest crosswalk, unveiled Tuesday morning at the intersection of Pine and Absolutely-Too-Busy-For-This, has achieved what officials are calling “a rare moment of civic balance” by confusing drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and one mail carrier in exactly the same way. The crosswalk, painted in a bold pattern of white stripes, diagonal chevrons, and what appears…
Gather ’round, my dawn-welcoming llamas, because the city wasted no time serving up fresh nonsense before anyone had even found a matching pair of socks. First on the docket: the Maple & Mirth Holiday Market, where a local artisan debuted hand‑knitted “emotional support mittens.” Each pair ships pre‑imbued with a personality—Stoic, Overly Encouraging, or Passive‑Aggressively…
