by Advocate Staff | Nov 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow,” wrote naturalist Henry David Thoreau in Walden, “to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.” I’d love to see you...
by Kristin Palpini | Nov 21, 2016 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Leisure, News, Newsletter, O Cannabis!
If you get up real close to the New England Treatment Access medical marijuana dispensary in Northampton, you can smell the earthy aroma of cannabis through the brick walls. Established in 2015, NETA’s Conz Street dispensary is, so far, the only medical Mary Jane shop...
by Advocate Staff | Nov 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Mark Alan Miller has spent decades devoting his energy to recording and producing other people’s music, no matter what the sound or style — folk singer-songwriter Pamela Means, rock guitar giant J Mascis, the old-school Young@Heart Chorus.But now Miller is making time...
by Kristin Palpini | Nov 21, 2016 | Articles, News
The Housatonic River in Massachusetts and Connecticut has been polluted by suspected human carcinogen – and known cancer-causing agent in animals – since the 1930s when GE used the lubricant during transformer manufacturing at its Pittsfield plant. And the...
by Advocate Staff | Nov 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Growing Pains Be Gone! Growing old doesn’t have to mean slowing down — well, too much. This Sunday, UMass is hosting the annual Active Aging in the Valley conference. The event will feature talks, workshops, and panels as well as free health screenings. Workshops will...