Repossession Rocks the Valley
Every day a family in Springfield loses its home—some days, more than one family (235 over the 180 days prior to press time). Holyoke, with 19 foreclosures in the last six months—11 of them within the last 60 days—by now has a higher foreclosure rate...
A Trash Tracker's Journal
Who'd have thought that one of the hot-button issues facing Northampton these days would be—garbage, the stuff we think disappears after we throw it away? But the question of whether the city's landfill should be expanded in such a way that a part of it...
Steel Cello Rag
Scott Ainslie (pictured) can coax a snarling version of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads Blues" from a steel guitar that'll make the hair on the back your neck stand up. It's no wonder—Ainslie is the author of a book about Johnson, and offers a...
Nightcrawler: Made For TV
Like many of their contemporaries, Greenfield's Stone Coyotes have been cranking out CDs and hitting the live circuit for years in hopes of securing a national recording contract and perhaps even a little taste of international fame. In a somewhat ironic twist,...E-Edition
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