by Maureen Turner | Jun 4, 2010 | News
The fiscal 2011 budget passed by the state Senate last week included a provision that will help protect library services in Western Mass.—although not as completely as some had hoped. Adopted as part of the $28 billion budget was an amendment, sponsored by Sen....
by Maureen Turner | Jun 8, 2010 | News
At 11 o’clock on a chilly, sunny March morning, Inez Williams’ house is scheduled to be sold at a foreclosure auction. Williams and her husband, Bill, bought the house—a 1,428-square-foot, three-bedroom home on St. James Avenue in...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 10, 2010 | News
What with the shouting about socialism during the health care debate, the caricaturing of Obama as a socialist and the shrillness of rightwingers tossing the term around like paper airplanes, you’d think socialism was still a McCarthy-era scare word in this...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 10, 2010 | News
There aren’t a lot of industries seeing dramatic growth in this economy—which makes the continuing expansion of the local food market even more impressive. Last week, South Deerfield’s Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, or CISA—the...
by our readers | Jun 10, 2010 | News
It’s About the Environment Developers are currently proposing the construction of biomass plants in Greenfield, Springfield, Pittsfield, Russell, and Fitchburg that would burn more than 13 million pounds of green wood a day and would add only 1 percent to our...
