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Podcast: Ashfield Resident Tom Leue Invents Heating System that Runs on Vegetable Oil

Podcast: Ashfield Resident Tom Leue Invents Heating System that Runs on Vegetable Oil

by Advocate Staff | Jul 16, 2018 | Featured, News, Newsletter, Podcast

It wasn’t always smooth sailing for Ashfield inventor Tom Leue. When making his own brand of biodiesel, an alternative fuel made from plant matter, he accidentally set fire to his workshop and burned it to the ground (hear about the fireball that ensued at...
Staff Picks: Next Wave Stage, Artney Jackson, and violinist Kristin Lee

Staff Picks: Next Wave Stage, Artney Jackson, and violinist Kristin Lee

by Gina Beavers, Dave Eisenstadter, and Chris Goudreau | Jul 11, 2018 | Featured, Newsletter, Staff Picks

Next Wave Stage at Green River Fest // FRIDAY, July 13 Signature Sounds Recordings will continue its Next Wave Stage this year at the 2018 Green River Festival, highlighting up and coming teenage bands across the Pioneer Valley and northern Vermont. The lineup this...
Valley Advocate Staff Picks: Rocky Horror, Twelfth Night, and Ashfield Lake House Anniversary Party

Valley Advocate Staff Picks: Rocky Horror, Twelfth Night, and Ashfield Lake House Anniversary Party

by Gina Beavers, Dave Eisenstadter, and Chris Goudreau | Jul 3, 2018 | Articles, Newsletter, Staff Picks

Rocky Horror Picture Show // SATURDAY, July 7 In 1975 something amazing happened: Rocky Horror Picture Show burst on the scene and life would never be the same again – especially for college kids who want to throw toast and toilet paper. On top it all, The Come Again...
Springfield celebration honors students who earned their high school equivalency

Springfield celebration honors students who earned their high school equivalency

by Dave Eisenstadter | Jun 29, 2018 | Featured, News, Newsletter

In the midst of the season of high school graduations, a group of dedicated students who had failed to get through high school the first time around earned recognition for passing their high school equivalency test, known as the HiSET, at the Springfield Technical...
Editorial: A Supremely Bad Decision

Editorial: A Supremely Bad Decision

by Dave Eisenstadter | Jun 28, 2018 | Between the Lines, Featured, News, Newsletter

They say that elections have consequences. This is one of the terrible ones. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement on Wednesday, June 27, effective the end of July. With Donald Trump in the Oval Office, and control of the Senate in the hands...
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