Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The Hill We Climb
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Thursday, January 14, 2021
MLK Day of Service in the Mapleton Preserve
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Yesterday
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Greetings and Take Care
Happy New Year, Princeton Landing friends, former neighbors, and residents.
Your board of directors may have faith in your management company, but we wonder how this is possible. Although we sold our home in the community in November, FirstService Residential is still sending us monthly maintenance bills. We have also received a collection notice for an erroneous December maintenance bill. The same day the January maintenance bill and the December collection notice arrived, we also received our former Parcel's finalized 2021 budget "prepared by the Association Board of Directors," telling us about the increase in monthly maintenance fees in Parcel 6. The maintenance bills and collection notice were sent to our new address. The Parcel budget was sent to our old address and forwarded.
Back in December when we received the first erroneous maintenance bill, my husband emailed the management office. He did not get a response. So I inquired to management on a copy of his email. Only then did they reply to him. They told him that it was "normal" to continue to receive maintenance bills even after you have sold your home in the community. It's "normal" then, it seems, to also receive a collection notice on a maintenance bill you didn't owe in the first place.
Princeton Landing homeowners, THIS IS YOUR MANAGEMENT COMPANY. They are no longer our problem, but they are yours. We wish you all the best in the new year and sincerely hope that errors like these are not indicative of other ways in which your community may be mismanaged.
Be well. Take care. Stay safe.
Friday, December 11, 2020
TIME Person of the Year
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were announced as TIME Magazine's Person of the Year.
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Saturday, October 24, 2020
FPNL Zoom Meeting: The American Chestnut
Illustration: "Gathering Chestnuts," by J.W. Lauderbach, from The Art Journal of 1878
Sunday, October 11, 2020
KGA Zoom Meeting: Deer-Resistant Native Plants
Rachel Mackow is an owner of Wild Ridge Plants, which is dedicated to the restoration of native plant communities that sustain and engage both people and wildlife. She manages the nursery operation on the farm at Wild Ridge and creates stewardship plans based on her knowledge of restoration practices and invasive species management. She enjoys helping people reconnect to plants and self-reliance through teaching foraging skills, herbal practice, and traditional plant uses.
Formed in 1998, Kingston Greenways Association aims to establish a permanent greenbelt around the village of Kingston consisting of natural environments, recreational parkland, agricultural and horticultural land, wetlands, streams and ponds, and sites of historical interest. The Association further aims to preserve and create connections of green among these for walking, jogging, bicycling and horseback riding. It also hopes to promote understanding of our local region through study and education, and to provide oversight and advocacy for open space in the Kingston area.
Photo: Rachel Mackow
Friday, September 25, 2020
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Icons
"Icons," by Bob Staake, next week's cover of The New Yorker.
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, died on Friday, at the age of eighty-seven. Ginsburg spent nearly three decades on the country's highest bench, and five decades as a tireless scholar, teacher, and advocate of equality. To commemorate her, the artist Bob Staake said, he 'needed to think of a graphic metaphor that embodied Ginsburg's life and legacy.' He wanted something that was 'honest and no-nonsense,' like Ginsburg, and he landed on her lace collar, a symbol not just of Ginsburg but, in Staake's drawing, of women everywhere."
Friday, September 18, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1933 – 2020
"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
Friday, August 14, 2020
Thursday, July 30, 2020
John Lewis | Opinion
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Saturday, July 18, 2020
John Lewis
Friday, July 10, 2020
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Learn. Their. Names.
Monday, July 6, 2020
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Fellow Traveler
Friday, June 26, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
How a President Leads
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Slow the Testing Down?!
From The Lincoln Project: