by Dave Eisenstadter and Chris Goudreau | Apr 11, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News
Don’t rob cars in jail parking lots After spending time in jail on grand theft charges, a Florida man found himself again in lockup only 15 minutes after being released. The 37-year-old man was seen “acting suspicious and checking vehicle doors” in the parking lot of...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 10, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
The first time Carmen Allison’s things were taken from a storage unit at Stuff-It Storage in Hadley was in the summer of 2015. She had recently lost her job as a caretaker in Amherst and was away for a few months to look for work in New Jersey. She reported the items...
by Advocate Staff | Mar 28, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Staff Picks
The NoHo Hoedown at the Iron Horse // FRIDAY The newly created Valley Twang Cooperative is bringing a night of local roots music to the Iron Horse Music Hall on Friday featuring three bands. There’s rockabilly/ country group Flathead Rodeo, Americana acoustic string...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 27, 2019 | Articles, Clueless Parent, Columns, Featured
I got an email from a PR firm this week with the subject line: “The Epidemic of Extreme Parenting: How to Self-Assess.” I would say it was an interesting coincidence that it appeared just before the launch of this column, but it isn’t really. When I became a dad early...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 27, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
Following the Parkland shooting last year, I was inspired by the activism of many of the student survivors, who marched to their state capital and lobbied Washington for gun control. The Advocate did a story about how those students were inspiring students in our own...
