Aftermath
Playwright Donna Jenson offers a highly personal look at sexual abuse of children with What She Knows, presented for the first time as a dramatic reading this week at Smith College. Jenson reads as the character Francie, and is accompanied by guitarist John Sheldon,...
Up Holyoke Down Holyoke
In the spring and summer of 1999, it seemed that everyone in Holyoke was talking about one thing: the quarry on Mount Tom.Earlier that year, the owners of the defunct Mount Tom Ski Area had gone to the City Council requesting a permit to expand a traprock quarry on...
Bud News
It was late December. It was a Springfield City Council meeting about the controversial plan to redevelop the former Longhill Garden apartments into affordable housing. It was Councilor Bud Williams, criticizing the Sarno administration for failing to "do its due...The World This Week: Family Planning
Last week, the Republicans rose up on their hind legs and stood, as one unanimous bloc, against affordable contraception for the nation's women. That's a sizeable group of potential voters for the GOP to permanently alienate, but far be it from me to offer any...E-Edition
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