Tuesday July 31, 2012  Each year, Lenox plays host to three
crafts fairs in Lilac Park. Despite requests for parking bans on
Sunset Avenue, and a vote by Selectmen -- which passed -- that
it be banned, parking is now apparently allowed on Sunset Avenue
from top to bottom, on the side that begins at the border of the
park.  This is what that looks like for me, a usually happy
Sunset Avenue resident, on day two of the fair. When I returned
from grocery shopping, my driveway was almost completely blocked
by cars and I had to park at the bottom of my street, hauling
groceries up a long hill, or letting fresh foods spoil in my
car. When a space in front of my house freed up, it was snatched
up by a man in a Prius who threw a burning cigarette onto the
street in front of my sidewalk. A man stood on my lawn and had a
10 minute conversation on his mobile phone that was audible in
every room of my house. A family parked their van and a young
mother got out on my lawn, bending over and pulling her
underwear down from h