by Maureen Turner | Sep 29, 2011 | News
This was not an easy summer for Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The season started with a tornado that ripped through his city, wiping out homes and schools and businesses, some of which are unlikely ever to be rebuilt. The city’s murder rate continued to...
by Stephanie Kraft | Oct 27, 2011 | News
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has been replaced in the headlines by other news, but its effects are still playing out in Japan, where contamination of fruit, vegetables and water is a constant concern and 80,000 people are still living a rootless existence in...
by Stephanie Kraft | Oct 6, 2011 | News
As former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel works to get an initiative calling for a new investigation of the events of Sept. 11 passed in Massachusetts (“A Deeper Inquiry,” September 29, 2011), revelations from Florida add another mystery to the pile of unanswered...
by Maureen Turner | Oct 27, 2011 | News
In the days right after Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc on so many Valley farms, the folks at South Deerfield’s Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, or CISA, rushed to offer what help they could. The nonprofit worked to help farmers affected by the storm...
by Our Readers | Oct 6, 2011 | News
Vermont Yankee: Why Prolong a Troubled History? As a resident of Northfield, just a few miles downstream from the Entergy Vermont nuclear power reactor, I have followed with interest the efforts to shut it down by March 2012, at the end of its 40-year license. The...
