by Mary Serreze | Sep 3, 2009 | News
The Upper Roberts Meadow Reservoir is a hidden gem. Hugging the north side of Chesterfield Road, a couple of miles uphill and upstream from the popular Musante Beach swimming area in Leeds, the six-acre pond supports a variety of wildlife, including blue heron,...
by Advocate Staff | Sep 3, 2009 | News
It may not be true that we’ll never see his like again, but we don’t see it at the moment. Ted Kennedy took a lot with him when he died. He wasn’t a perfect man. His enemies still mutter the word “Chappaquiddick,” and there’s no...
by Alan Bisbort | Sep 3, 2009 | News
Now that the "Lion of the Senate" has roared for the last time, the jungle of Congress will get back to business as usual: selling out the American people. The tributes to Ted Kennedy in the last week from across the political spectrum have been impressive...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 10, 2009 | News
When I asked Carol Lewis-Caulton to name her proudest moment from the two years she served on the Springfield City Council, I wondered if she'd choose one of the higher-profile issues she'd been involved in. Her work to make the Springfield Library and Museums...
by Our Readers | Sep 10, 2009 | News
Push the Single-Payer BillAs our health care crisis only deepens, as more and more of our money goes to rapacious insurance companies (who believe in redistribution of wealth only insofar as all of it goes to them), it is clear that only some form of a single-payer...
