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Gas Company Explores Right-of-Way in Valley By Stephanie Kraft   “I don’t want any part of it. I never would give up our land for it.” That’s the way Laura Chapdelaine of Montague feels about the pipeline Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. wants...
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Don’t Just Sit There—Read! South Hadley’s Odyssey Bookshop hosts a number of book discussion groups: for young adult readers, crime aficionados, Shakespeare lovers, fans of fiction. But its newest book group is especially near and dear to co-owner...
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Lively Protest Activists gathered last week outside the Holy Grounds Coffee House on Main Street in Springfield, to protest the harsh anti-homosexuality bill recently passed in Uganda. Holy Grounds was started by the Rev. Scott Lively, an evangelical minister (and...
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UMass Students Find GMOs in “GMO-Free” Foods By Maureen Turner Last fall, Rick Pilsner, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at UMass Amherst, gave his students a challenge that would be of interest to many consumers: to determine...
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Worth Quoting “[In the 1960s], American students sought to wrest themselves entirely from the disciplinary control of their colleges and universities, institutions that had historically operated in loco parentis, carefully monitoring the private...