Dude. Please. This has got to be at least the fourth time in the last dozen years. The good burghers decide the way to make this a more attractive city - like nearby Northampton, everybody's dream - is to put benches on the sidewalk downtown. Northampton has benches. In Northampton you can sit down on a bench and watch the traffic go by which, I guess, must be fun somehow.
So they put the benches in - downtown, here - with great fanfare and then the next summer suddenly they discover OMG! people are sitting on the benches! Old people! People who might, just possibly, be from the homeless shelter! People who are smoking cigarettes! And worst of all, worse than anything else you can imagine, kids! There are kids sitting around on benches all up and down Main Street. The merchants are complaining. The pedestrians are complaining.
The benches have got to go!
So they all come out again. Then (see above) they go back in. I just hope they don't throw them away every time they take them out. It'd be a real shame to buy new ones every time.
(Also, for extra credit, see the other headline on our paper today. It reads "Ballot rich in races." Really. Take my word. It does.)
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