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		<title>Announcing My New Blog Site</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/announcing-my-new-blog-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve transferred this blog to a new and improved website: www.jmgoldson.com.  All archived posts are now located at my new site and I will continue to do my weekly posts there. I&#8217;ve also added a new feature: You can now &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/announcing-my-new-blog-site/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=597&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CPA-Funded Bike Path in Peabody is Now Open</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/cpa-funded-bike-path-in-peabody-is-now-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Recreation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Preservation Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peabody rail trail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As reported on salemnews.com, Peabody&#8217;s project to convert an old rail bed to a trail is now complete and open for enjoyment.  The city paid $162,000 in Community Preservation Act funds to design the bikeway. The rest of the more than $3 &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/cpa-funded-bike-path-in-peabody-is-now-open/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=587&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: State Should Support Better Community Preservation Act</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/commentary-state-should-support-better-community-preservation-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[CPA In General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[An Act to Sustain Community Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Holmes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB90]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this commentary at patriotledger.com  by Rick Holmes, opinion editor of the MetroWest Daily News and member of Upton&#8217;s Community Preservation Committee.  He urges support for SB90: An Act to Sustain Community Preservation.  Here is an excerpt: But there’s a &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/commentary-state-should-support-better-community-preservation-act/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=583&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat for Humanity &amp; CPA</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/habitat-for-humanity-cpa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Habitat for Humanity projects in Massachusetts rely on funding from the Community Preservation Act. Communities including Chatham, Hingham, Nantucket, Newton, Norwell, and Sudbury, have appropriated CPA funds for Habitat for Humanity projects to create affordable housing.  The Town of &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/habitat-for-humanity-cpa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=580&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MHP Guidebook &amp; Workshop on Housing Trusts</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/mhp-guidebook-workshop-on-housing-trusts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conferences & Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Municipal Affordable Housing Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall from some of my recent posts that I&#8217;ve been working with the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) to write a guidebook on municipal affordable housing trusts.  I&#8217;m pleased to report that the guidebook is in final production and is expected &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/mhp-guidebook-workshop-on-housing-trusts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=575&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change + Land Conservation Strategies</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/climate-change-land-conservation-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In MassAudubon&#8217;s Aug-Dec 2009 issue of its newsletter, Bob Wilber, Director of Land Protection, offers some advice on land protection strategies in his article &#8220;Reason for Hope as Our Climate Heats Up.&#8221;  For a century or more, land conservation efforts &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/climate-change-land-conservation-strategies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=561&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint:  An Act to Sustain Community Preservation</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/viewpoint-an-act-to-sustain-community-preservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[CPA In General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My article on Senate Bill 90 (An Act to Sustain Community Preservation) was released today in the October issue of New England Planning (the newsletter for the MA and RI chapters of the American Planning Association).   See &#8220;Viewpoint by Jennifer M. &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/viewpoint-an-act-to-sustain-community-preservation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=551&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Bill 90 &#8211; Hearing at the State House</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/senate-bill-90-hearing-at-the-state-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was proud to take part in the excitement yesterday at the Legislative Hearing on Senate Bill 90, An Act to Sustain Community Preservation.  Members of Community Preservation Committees from across the state as well as legislators came out in &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/senate-bill-90-hearing-at-the-state-house/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=536&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easton&#8217;s &#8220;Secret Garden&#8221; Project</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/eastons-secret-garden-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmgoldson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Historic Preservation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queset Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Town of Easton Queset House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ As reported last week on enterprisenews.com, the abandoned 1911 garden of Broadway producer and playwrite Winthrop Ames at Queset House in Easton, Massachusetts was rediscovered by Kath Holland, a student of the Landscape Institute at Arnold Arboretum.  Enterprise staff writer Vicki-Ann Downing &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/eastons-secret-garden-project/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=523&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Preserve Historic Barns</title>
		<link>http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/how-to-preserve-historic-barns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Historic Preservation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Preservation Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Trustees of Reservations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ On November 16th in Dighton, MA, The Trustees of Reservations &#38; Preservation Massachusetts are holding a free workshop on historic barns in Southeastern MA: Topics include understanding the different types of barns found in the region, tips on stabilizing deteriorating barns until &#8230; <a href="http://jmgoldson.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/how-to-preserve-historic-barns/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jmgoldson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6707607&amp;post=494&amp;subd=jmgoldson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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