by Hunter Styles | Feb 18, 2015 | News
On Jan. 28, following a 10-day investigation, the Northampton Police Department decided not to bring hate crime charges against two local teenagers suspected of vandalizing city and private property along Sherman Avenue with spray paint, which was used to draw, among...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 4, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Food + Booze, Leisure
If you’re seeking a sweetheart in advance of Valentine’s Day, it would seem logical that your best shot at finding love would be to go to the city with the highest concentration of singles. According to the U.S. Census, 78.46 percent of Springfield residents between...
by Hunter Styles | Jan 27, 2015 | Arts, News
Four days ago, Tomás Astacio slept outside for the first time. He found a locked, empty building on Winter Street in Springfield and climbed up to the second floor, where he spent the night on a balcony. The temperature dropped below freezing that night — 22 degrees...
by Hunter Styles | Jan 28, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Between the Lines, Featured, Film, News, Stage
The show must go on, as they say — until it’s gone on long enough. On Jan. 14, the student-run Project Theatre group at Mount Holyoke College canceled its annual production of Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues, opting instead to write and produce a new show of...
by Hunter Styles | Jan 28, 2015 | News
Chicopee resident Charles DiRosa, whose Dec. 21 Facebook post “Put Wings On Pigs” landed him in trouble with the city’s police department, attended a show-cause hearing held at Chicopee District Court on Jan. 12. The wording of the post by DiRosa, which a concerned...
