Council authorized the city manager to execute a construction contract with Brookstone at a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) tied to the City Campus Phase 1 project while members pressed for the contract review, alternatives to demolishing community buildings and options to preserve community meeting space.

At its meeting the board agreed to continue exploring an offer to rent roughly 3,000 square feet in two connected spaces near downtown as a potential satellite library, teen hub, maker space or meeting venue; staff will return with rent, timeline and staffing cost estimates.

Pottery judge Keith Brymer Jones and actor Marj Hogarth are planning to marry in their renovated chapel home in Pwllheli in May next year. The couple are restoring the Grade II-listed building into a home, a pottery studio and a community space. They hope to recruit local apprentices to help the local economy.

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The council voted to declare two city parcels surplus and move them toward BPDA designation for the Crescent Parcel development, a proposal that envisions 217 affordable rental units plus retail and community space in Roxbury.

Hartford City officials aim to secure funding for rehabilitation of historic Colt Park buildings.

If you can’t find me, I’m probably still browsing shelves of queer joy at Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s superb radical bookshop. The delightful owner Mairi Oliver took some time to chat with me about the long history of radical and queer bookshops that have come before and exist alongside this absolute gem of a queer space. We speak about queer spaces changing hands and transforming, rather than disappearing, about the magic of queer and trans book events, and about why radical booksellers are so important for local community.   References: Word Power Elaine Henry Constant Reader Bookshop Lavender Menace West & Wilde Sigrid Nielson Bob Orr J une Thomas’s A Place of One’s Own Jane Cholmeley’s A Bookshop of One’s Own Silver Moon Bookshop James Ley’s Love Song To Lavender Menace Naomi Klein Sara Ahmed Radical Book Fair Category is Books (Glasgow) Gay’s The Word (London) Housmans (London) Five Leaves (Nottingham) Alliance of Radical Booksellers  https://www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk/ Bread and Roses Award Jake Hall’s Shoulder to Shoulder: A Queer History of Solidarity, Coalition and Chaos N.S. Nuseibeh’s Namesake   Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: -      Mairi speaks about how Lighthouse builds on a lineage of queer spaces. How do you feel about queer spaces transforming versus disappearing? -      In this context, we also speak about the higher expectations for queer spaces. Have you experienced this? Do you think queer spaces should be held to a higher standard? What is the effect of this? -      When we speak about the relationship between readers, booksellers and authors, Mairi makes some interesting points about how the role of writers is changing. What struck you as particularly important here? -      Mairi ends the episode with a note on the urgency with which we need to address current political discussions. How can books and bookshops help us do this?

You know I love a queer bookshop and this Glaswegian dream of a queer space is absolutely delightful. Bug and Fin started Category is Books in 2018 to create the kind of space they were craving in their own neighbourhood. As the name promises, Category is Books has some exquisite shelving categories: from ‘Dyke Aching’ to ‘Trans Lit’ to the extensive poetry and theory sections, Bug and Fin show off their excellent taste on their shelves. In the recording, you can hear just how popular the shop is and how many people from near and far love to stop by for a browse and a chat. I’m telling you: this is a real treasure.   References: Dr Eamon McCarthy (new favourtite person)  Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities https://www.sgsah.ac.uk/ Section 28 Kelly Gardiner Adrian’s Bar Pluto Q Community Reading Room https://www.plutoq.com/ Hazel Jane Plante’s Little Blue Encyclopedia Sam Szabo’s Enlightened Transexual Comix Shola von Reinhold’s Lote   Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: -      Why do we need specialist bookshops? Why did Bug and Fin want to open one? -      Why do Bug and Fin mention Section 28? Please look this term up if you are not familiar. -      What is your favourite category, section or genre in a bookshop? -      Why should you check Category is Books’ opening times before you go on your own queer pilgrimage there?  

Representatives of the Agora pickleball project described economic benefits and said they will pursue sound abatement; applicant Ahmed Shalabi cited informal decibel readings and pledged to work with the theater and neighbors.