A letter from Main Street Neighborhood Association

What’s Happening on Main Street — September

August 30, 2026

Neighbors,

September is the month this street actually looks like itself again — porches occupied, leaves not yet a problem, everyone back from wherever they went. Here is what is coming.

Fall Cleanup — Saturday, September 20

Nine to noon, meeting at the Main Street pocket park. Gloves, bags, and coffee are provided. Bring a wheelbarrow or a spare rake if you have one; we always run short.

Meet at the pocket park at 9.
Sign in — the city loans us tools based on the head count.
Rake, bag, repeat until noon. There is pizza after.

RSVP for the cleanup

Neighbors clearing the 400 block last October. Ruth brought the good rakes.

Around the block

Leaf pickup starts the week of November 3 on our side of the avenue. The city's schedule is here.
The zoning case at 412 Main goes before the commission October 8. Read the staff report before you form an opinion — it is shorter than you would think.
Library book sale, October 4 and 5, in the Friends of Main Street Library annex. Take a shift at the table.
The crosswalk petition stands at 118 signatures. It needs 150 to carry weight downtown — sign it here.
Porch concerts wrap up September 27 at the Delgados’. Bring a chair.

A word about helping

We are three people short on the beautification committee and one short of a treasurer’s helper. Neither job is as large as it sounds, and both come with a standing licence to complain at meetings.

Margaret wrote:
Nobody has to do everything. Pick one hour a month and this whole thing works.

Reply to this letter and it comes to me — not to a no-reply address.

See you on the porch,
Margaret