by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 30, 2012 | News
In an action heavily influenced by the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, last Thursday more than 1,000 people marched three miles to the Brattleboro offices of Entergy, owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in nearby Vernon, Vt. The event...
by Maureen Turner | Mar 30, 2012 | News
This spring, the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department will break ground on an expansion project at the women’s jail it operates in Chicopee, increasing the number of medium-security cells from 120 to 184. The project has been a long time coming, in the view...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 30, 2012 | News
The death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African American teenager shot dead in Sanford, Fla. as he was returning to his father’s girlfriend’s house with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea from a 7-Eleven store, won’t be...
by Tom Vannah | Mar 30, 2012 | News
It’s a perennial space shortage in the garage attic that leads me into a week or two of bittersweet nostalgia each spring. This year, I pulled several armfuls of old magazines and newspapers from the boxes where they’ve been awaiting a second read for...
by Our Readers | Mar 30, 2012 | News
Advocate Offers “Apologia” for Iran My! what an apologia for the Islamic Republic by a spokesperson for the “People’s Republic” of the Pioneer Valley [“Can We Talk About Iran?”, March 15, 2012]. I recommend those interested to...
