by Maureen Turner | Jan 7, 2010 | News
Last week, parishioners at Springfield's Our Lady of Hope church marked a sad moment: the final mass in their Armory Street church, which was built 85 years ago by the Irish immigrants who settled in the Hungry Hill neighborhood, and from whom many of the current...
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...
