by Noah Baustin | Jul 18, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
The Greenfield City Council adopted a new “Safe City” ordinance on Wednesday night in a 10-3 vote, reversing its stance on a similar ordinance in 2017, which failed in a 6-4 vote. Effective as of its passage, the ordinance prohibits Greenfield officials,...
by Gary Carra | Jul 17, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Music, News
When he’s not aboard Iron Maiden’s private jet en route to a 50,000-plus stadium gig in South America or Europe, Anthrax guitarist Jonathan Donais says there’s no place he’d rather be than his Easthampton home and “triangle.” “‘The Triangle’ is what I call this little...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Jul 17, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
It used to feel worthwhile to list off the terrible things that Donald Trump has done since assuming office in the beginning of 2017 — particularly the examples of his blatant racism. The Advocate did as much in a story at the beginning of 2018 pushing back on when he...
by Chris Goudreau | Jul 17, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured
Let’s All Go to Area 51 At least a million people have pledged over Facebook to raid the United State Air Force’s Area 51, a highly classified Nevada military base that conspiracy theorists and UFO-ologists claim houses or once housed remains of alien spaceships and...
by Chris Goudreau | Jul 15, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
At least once a week, Jose Mediavilla, a 37-year-old Easthampton resident, stands near a crosswalk median along Main Street holding signs that read, “Microplastics are in our air and food.” He stands there holding the sign for passing cars and pedestrians for hours in...
