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...
by Mark Roessler and Tom Vannah | Jan 7, 2010 | News
For Massachusetts residents who oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan specifically or who oppose war generally, the news coming from the Donahue Institute at UMass may not be as cheery as one statewide business association makes it sound. “The success of the...
by Our Readers | Dec 17, 2009 | News
Don't Change Endangered Species LawsI am writing concerning "Fighting for Habitat?" [Nov. 26, 2009]. Open land is important to have, especially in a place like Western Massachusetts, which thrives on its natural beauty. Bill Pepin's push to pass the...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 7, 2010 | News
I’ll admit, I was expecting this week’s organizational meeting of the Springfield City Council to be a pretty dry affair. As the Council’s first gathering of the new year, the meeting—scheduled for Monday morning, after the Advocate’s...
by Tom Vannah | Dec 17, 2009 | News
In 1990, when first he ran for District Attorney of Hampden County, William M. Bennett promised to serve just two terms.At the time, Bennett's promise came in the context of an ugly scandal that had enveloped the DA's office during the tenure of Bennett's...
