by Mary Serreze | Jun 4, 2009 | News
In Greenfield's recent history, there has been great tension between proponents of economic development in the form of big box stores and proponents of protecting the environment against development. That tension, no doubt, will color the June 9 election of a new...
by Mark Roessler | Jun 4, 2009 | News
In response to the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission's (PVPC) "Knowledge Corridor" study, which advocates re-routing Amtrak's Vermonter rail service via the Massachusetts towns along the Connecticut River to increase its speed and number of...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 4, 2009 | News
For 12 years, Springfield's Solid Rock Church of God in Christ has run an AIDS prevention program aimed at young people. The project trains teenagers to serve as peer leaders, who talk to other teens about avoiding risky behavior. Over the years, the program's...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 4, 2009 | News
Maybe it was growing up in a windswept coastal town in Florida. Maybe it was being born an Aquarian. Whatever made me this way, I love water. Not just swimming, which I do in a rather lazy, not particularly athletic way, but being in water, feeling it swirl around and...
by Alan Bisbort | Jun 4, 2009 | News
Sonia Sotomayor saved baseball. So we were reminded last week after she was nominated to the Supreme Court. Before the 1995 baseball season began—the year after the players' strike—Judge Sotomayor issued a temporary injunction to get the season...
