Mill River Greenway

We’ve changed our name.  We’re now the MILL RIVER GREENWAY INITIATIVE.  We did this simply to distinguish our group from others whose name bears the title Mill River Greenway.  We hope you’ll find it easy to change our abbreviation from MRG to MRGI, Margie for short.

What’s a charrette?  A charrette is a way for design professionals to get together to come up with solutions to a problem, such as “What might a Mill River Greenway look like?”  It’s a collaborative process in which landscape architects work together in a short time frame to present ideas.

On the evening of April 18th, a group of landscape architects from the Western Massachusetts Section of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects will gather in Florence with a small group of local citizens to develop ideas for different parts of the Mill River from Williamsburg to downtown Northampton.  The results will be presented in Williamsburg the first week of May and in Northampton at the Mill River Greenway Initiative party on May 10th from 5:00-7:00 at Pedal to Properties on Strong Street.

For a full description of the charrette, go to Mill River Charrette.

We’ve seen our share of heavy rains this spring, the water’s up. I like when the water’s up because when it’s rushing through the narrows of Burgy center like that I can hear the river at my house on Village Hill. What’s your favorite thing about the Mill River in spring? The Thursday Burgy Market has been a highlight for me. What are you looking forward to this summer? Let us know in the comments.