by Mark Roessler | Nov 11, 2010 | News
Ted White met me at the Simple Gifts farm in North Amherst on a gray morning last week, just after a torrential downpour. It turned out we’d both been worried about how photogenic the farm would be, but in the bursts of light now breaking through the clouds, the...
by Mark Roessler | Nov 11, 2010 | News
When the Advocate finally caught up with future Northampton farmers Jen Smith and Nate Frigard last week, they didn’t have long to talk. They had just gotten home from their day jobs and had half an hour before a meeting with a representative from Grow Food...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 11, 2010 | News
Eleven years after his quixotic campaign for mayor of Springfield, Simon Powell has died. Simon’s 1999 bid wasn’t successful, but it certainly caught plenty of attention in political circles. After all, it’s not every day a dog runs for mayor....
by Advocate Staff | Nov 16, 2010 | News
Voting Guide Not Nonpartisan Now that the shouting has died down, my wife and I would like to publicly thank Bishop McDonnell for making sure that the “nonpartisan” 2010 Massachusetts General Election Voter Guide from the Massachusetts Family Institute was...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 18, 2010 | News
The city of Springfield’s trash-pickup fee might be roundly despised by the city’s residents, but it’s certainly proven useful to its politicians. In 2006, the Finance Control Board imposed a $90 annual trash fee, in an attempt to plug up shortfalls...
