Okay, I'll level with you, folks...
The riverdaleparkette tends to go into hiding when she has way too much to be writing about, and isn't sure what belongs out there on port 80. That's right, I said port 80. Geekiness is one of the riverdaleparkette's secret powers. Now you know.
At any rate, I suppose there's tons to discuss.
The corner of Route 1 and East West Highway (alternately called "Berlin 1945," "The Field of Rubble," or as I like to refer to it, "Why those developers be hatin' on my 'hood?") has been improved drastically with the installation of a transparent green thing over/under/around the chain link fence. I liked the idea posted to a town discussion list about converting the lot to a greensward, erecting a fountain with a statue of the riverdaleparkette. Megalomania is another of my secret powers.
The fence covering appeared the day after the September town meeting wherein Tony Caputo, the developer who owns the property, came to understand the exact degree to which the Riverdale Park citizens loathe having an ugly gateway to the town. We might as well have played dodgeball in the school gym across the street, Riverdaleans on one side, developer on the other. Particularly amusing was a certain A.T. who said that some of our hostility stemmed from having been "Jemalled" for quite some time over the town center. I've been using the phrase since the meeting in my everyday life, in such instances as, "Man, traffic is really Jemalled on the beltway today."
Riverdale Day is this coming Saturday, October 1, on the grounds of the Riversdale Mansion on Riverdale Road. Perhaps on that day I will employ my other secret powers of running around like a spaz and saying inappropriate things too loudly. Be sure to say hi!
The riverdaleparkette tends to go into hiding when she has way too much to be writing about, and isn't sure what belongs out there on port 80. That's right, I said port 80. Geekiness is one of the riverdaleparkette's secret powers. Now you know.
At any rate, I suppose there's tons to discuss.
The corner of Route 1 and East West Highway (alternately called "Berlin 1945," "The Field of Rubble," or as I like to refer to it, "Why those developers be hatin' on my 'hood?") has been improved drastically with the installation of a transparent green thing over/under/around the chain link fence. I liked the idea posted to a town discussion list about converting the lot to a greensward, erecting a fountain with a statue of the riverdaleparkette. Megalomania is another of my secret powers.
The fence covering appeared the day after the September town meeting wherein Tony Caputo, the developer who owns the property, came to understand the exact degree to which the Riverdale Park citizens loathe having an ugly gateway to the town. We might as well have played dodgeball in the school gym across the street, Riverdaleans on one side, developer on the other. Particularly amusing was a certain A.T. who said that some of our hostility stemmed from having been "Jemalled" for quite some time over the town center. I've been using the phrase since the meeting in my everyday life, in such instances as, "Man, traffic is really Jemalled on the beltway today."
Riverdale Day is this coming Saturday, October 1, on the grounds of the Riversdale Mansion on Riverdale Road. Perhaps on that day I will employ my other secret powers of running around like a spaz and saying inappropriate things too loudly. Be sure to say hi!
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