by Kristin Palpini | Nov 30, 2015 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News
Facebook: Is Agawam HS’ team name offensive? Editor’s note: The below comments were left on the Advocate’s Facebook page in response to a guest column, “These Brownies Have Got to Go” Nov. 19-25, 2015. George Green: Where did these two writers get their information,...
by From Our Readers | Nov 23, 2015 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News
Getting away with rape Editor’s note: This letter is in response to “Owen Labrie, rapist or simply a jerk?” Nov. 19, 2015, an editorial in which editors Kristin Palpini and Jeffrey Good wrote about their interpretations of the sexual assault verdict. Good says Labrie...
by From Our Readers | Nov 9, 2015 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News
Drowning in craft beer Dear well-intentioned, creatively-spirited, entrepreneurial-minded, mechanically-gifted, young white men, Please refrain from moving forward with your impending craft brewery project, as we here in the Valley have gone well beyond the number of...
by From Our Readers | Oct 13, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
First Head People tend to travel in the direction they are looking. It is obvious that the lady from Wilbraham who wrote the recent letter entitled “Bad Bible” is one of the multitude who sit in front of their televisions and inhale reams of anti-Christian twit...
by From Our Readers | Oct 6, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Unite community around treating addiction I read the article about community opposition to new drug/alcohol treatment centers in Greenfield and Springfield (“Not In Our Backyards” Sept. 24-30, 2015) with great interest. It’s hard to oppose a community uniting for...