Anote local government April Fool's 😂. This one from a Councilor At-Large.Bruce is an inside joke - Bruce is a chocolate lab who was running for Dog Mayor Of Salem last year during the Halloween Pup-parade.~~~Accessible text: The Transportation Commission will meet tonight to review a proposal from my office to integrate dynamic, biologically based traffic calming elements at selected high

I guess the Salem Police also got into it for April Fools.It does make me wonder...what would a Police Pigeon actually do 🤔Accessible text version:For Immediate ReleaseBe On The LookoutMissing Police PigeonFor the past 10 years, the police department has maintained a flock of twenty-five pigeons in a heated and air-conditioned loft atop the police station.  The hobby flock is trained and looked

Alright, with April Fool's behind us, this week (and maybe part of next week) will be a roundup of posts and fake products that were announced yesterday.  To kick things off, here is a post from the City of Salem, about reincorporating territories that spun off from the original Salem.City of Salem Announces Historic Reincorporation of Original TerritoriesREUNIFIED SALEM, MA — In a stunning

One of the local competitions is back! The North Shore is host to a small local fried chicken sandwich chain called Flip the Bird and since 2021 they've had a little friendly competition between their various locations.  Each location develops its own signature sandwich for the month, and customers are encouraged to visit all locations, try them out, and then vote. There's also a raffle at the

Catching up on writring a little bit about TV and video games I watched (or played) this past year... To kick it off, I thought I'd write a little bit about Motherland: Fort Salem.  For October I meant to watch themed movies and shows (you know, horror and witchy stuff), but I only managed to binge this series 🙃. I finished it just before Halloween so I was within my self-imposed time frame

Happy Halloween!Well, this one is going to be odd!  We had our first snow yesterday, it's cold out there, the coronavirus is still looming, and Salem is closed for Halloween.  I guess it's going to be quiet today...Google's doodle this year is pretty fun.  You play a browser game as a little black cat who tries to rid the land of ghosts, only to inadvertently cast them off to sea. So,

 Despite being in the middle of a pandemic, Reddit posts from people who want to visit still are plentiful, and there are queues to get into restaurants and attractions.  This morning I got a lot of notifications from the official Salem app that attractions are fully booked for today as of 10am this morning.It makes me wonder what is wrong with people sometimes...

Seems like Scratch Kitchen is the latest casualty of the COVID-19 closures.  Cinema Salem (our community movie theater) was first, then Beerworks (although I am hoping they'll relocate), and now Scratch Kitchen. Scratch was set apart by having local produce, and organic (oh yeah, and lots of bacon).  The thing that stunk was that their hours were not always predictable...

Μόνο μία φωτογραφία αλλά έχει και τα τρία ιστιοφόρα! (μετά ήρθε και ένα μικρότερο...σαν κότερο του 1880 ήταν...)