by Tom Vannah | Jun 18, 2014 | News
Rolling by the State Police barracks in Northampton, I ride north on Rtes. 5 & 10. For a moment, I consider my options: stay on 5 & 10, or take the next right into Hatfield, down Elm Street to the left-hand bend where it becomes Main Street, through the...
by by Advocate readers | Jun 18, 2014 | News
Musicians Out in the Cold James Heflin missed one part of the local music economy in his cover story last week (“Can Music Pay?”, June 12, 2014): the many open stage nights where musicians sign up to play a few tunes for no pay. The venue gets a night of...
by Pete Redington | Jun 18, 2014 | News
Jonathan Edwards puts his beer down and heads across the street to the Whately Town Hall. Edwards has been sitting here at the Whately Inn since the polls closed, waiting for election officials to tally the vote. One bar stool over, Paul Fleuriel—decked out in...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 18, 2014 | News
The 54-year life of the Mt. Tom power station, a coal-fired power plant that was once a major source of energy in the Valley and long a major source of pollution, will reach its end in October, just two months before the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant near...
by James Heflin | Jun 18, 2014 | Music
Roots in the Sky (Motif) Doug Hewitt, who’s been gigging regularly in these parts for quite a while, just released the disc Roots in the Sky. It’s a disc with few cousins on the Valley scene. That’s because it’s got an unusual, sharply focused...