by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 10, 2009 | News
Thanksgiving, surely the most traditionally food-themed holiday of the year, found us facing a bizarre paradox: both obesity and hunger are on the rise. In a survey of teachers across the country by Share Our Strength, 63 percent of respondents said they regularly...
by Tom Vannah | Jan 7, 2010 | News
Traffic crawled along the Mohawk Trail, past the turnoff at Route 2A to downtown Shelburne Falls and up into Charlemont. By traffic, I mean my daughter and me in my truck, the occupants of the car in front of us, and the plow truck leading our procession westward at...
by Tom Vannah | Dec 15, 2009 | News
From the highway, Springfield looked OK. The highway construction that seems a permanent condition on this stretch of Interstate 91 notwithstanding, the city seemed to doing its best to put a good foot forward: the Basketball Hall of Fame gleamed bright against the...
by Sarah Gibbons | Jan 7, 2010 | News
Editor's note: On Monday, Jan. 4, as the Advocate was going to press, police arrested Anthony P. Baye in connection with the Dec. 27 fire at 17 Fair St. that claimed the lives of Paul W. Yeskie, Sr. and his son Paul W. Yeskie, Jr. Baye, 25, a longtime resident of...
by Tom Sturm | Dec 15, 2009 | News
Hampshire County residents may have noticed some louder passersby overhead in the past year; and, no, it's not the Blue Angels. What you're actually hearing is the 104th Fighter Wing out of Westfield's Barnes Air National Guard Base, now equipped with 18...
