Airplane noise: neighbors mad.

[mem_winterhill]

I attended that semi-impromptu meeting in Medford the other night, that I heard about at the last minute. Since it was at the bottom of Main St it was easy for me to get to. It ran from about 7-9:30pm, and about 80 people turned up for this. They mad.

Presented by a couple of Medford volunteers who have been monitoring airplane noise for a long time, it was a very helpful overview of the issues and an attempt to drum up support for some actions we need to take. They had done the presentation earlier this summer and the summary of that can be found on the city of Medford's website here: Aircraft Noise Update, June 7, 2017.

I'm going to relay what I gathered from this meeting. Note that aviation is not my field, and some details may be flawed. It will be a little long, so I'm going to put the rest below the cut for the ease of reading on mobile. Click the "more" for the rest of the details.

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Candidate meet-and-greet in Union Square

[secretlyironic]

This isn't strictly in Winter Hill but it's just down the way-- there's a candidate meet & greet  this evening at Workbar in Union Square if you want to shake hands with alderman & mayoral candidates and see what's going on with them.