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Letters to the Editor: The state isn’t listening on the Route 9 bridge

Letters to the Editor: The state isn’t listening on the Route 9 bridge

by Our Readers | Nov 1, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Letters from our Readers, News

The state isn’t listening on the Route 9 bridge Are you aware the state is starting work on a two lane roundabout to replace the traffic lights at the bridge? While none of us like sitting at traffic lights, they do serve a purpose. Years ago there were public...
Bizarro Briefs: So You Want to be Scared?

Bizarro Briefs: So You Want to be Scared?

by Advocate Staff | Nov 1, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

So You Want to be Scared? Visiting so-called “haunted houses” for Halloween is very popular, but if you want to get chills in two of them in particular, you’ll need to be medically cleared by a doctor and sign a 40-page waiver before you can go in. The McKamey Manor...
Ghosts in the Attic: Agawam Paranormal society seeks — and finds — evidence of life beyond

Ghosts in the Attic: Agawam Paranormal society seeks — and finds — evidence of life beyond

by Gena Mangiaratti | Oct 30, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

Paranormal investigator Liette Casey speaks politely when she thinks she may be in the company of a spiritual presence, as she would if she were meeting a living person for the first time. Standing in the attic of the historical Josiah Day House in West Springfield,...
Editorial: The Horrors of Unfair Prison Visitation Practices

Editorial: The Horrors of Unfair Prison Visitation Practices

by Dave Eisenstadter | Oct 30, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

As we come upon Halloween, that night of frights, there’s a bill going through the Statehouse now that addresses real horrors with our prison system. As reported in Tuesday’s Daily Hampshire Gazette by writer Noor Adatia, Nia Reid-Patterson explained through tears...
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: A really scary house, a cautionary tale for hit men, Elf on a Shelf cereal

Bizarro Briefs Podcast: A really scary house, a cautionary tale for hit men, Elf on a Shelf cereal

by Advocate Staff | Oct 30, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, Podcast

The Halloween edition of weird news with Dave and Trumpy. Valley Advocate editor Dave Eisenstadter and Hits 94.3 host Trumpy talk about the week’s weird news in a podcast version of the Valley Advocate’s Bizarro Briefs section. Hear about a scary house you don’t...
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