by Mark Roessler | Jan 12, 2012 | News
“Hey, you can’t just stand up there, taking pictures,” a man yelled up at me. “The police are watching you.” No shit. Where there had been an encampment of protesters only weeks ago, there were now dozens of cops and their vehicles...
by Our Readers | Jan 12, 2012 | News
More on Pearl Harbor Stephanie Kraft’s article “The Art of Selling War” [January 5, 2012] is historical revisionism at its worst, perpetrating the dishonest myth that the Japanese were the innocent victims of World War II. One wonders how the souls...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 12, 2012 | News
A year of seemingly endless catastrophic weather ended on a bright note for several Valley farms. Last month, South Deerfield’s Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, or CISA, issued the first loans from its Emergency Farm Fund. CISA created the revolving...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 12, 2012 | News
Like elected bodies around the Valley, the Easthampton City Council held its first meeting of the new year last week, when the councilors were sworn in to their new terms. But the meeting wasn’t all celebratory and ceremonial; the Council’s first order of...
by Tom Sturm | Jan 12, 2012 | News
Northampton Community Television executive director P. Al Williams has reason to feel good about his most recent hire. Jeromie Whalen, who paid his dues as an NCTV intern before getting the thumbs up for full-time employment, helped bring the station some national...
