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‘It’s sort of hanging over everything’: Local doctor volunteering at Mexico border talks about coronavirus concerns at refugee camps

‘It’s sort of hanging over everything’: Local doctor volunteering at Mexico border talks about coronavirus concerns at refugee camps

by Chris Goudreau | Mar 17, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News

David Katz, a retired family practice physician from Northampton, arrived in Brownsville, Texas, on March 14 to help refugees across the border living in a camp in Matamoros, Mexico. He planned on arriving with two other physicians, one of which is also from...
Former Club Castaway manager says she quit following dispute over queer performers

Former Club Castaway manager says she quit following dispute over queer performers

by Luis Fieldman | Feb 5, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News

Bella Vendetta, who worked for Whately’s Club Castaway and planned to move forward with a line-up of queer and trans performers, said she left after three weeks following a dispute with ownership over those plans. “My original thoughts were sadness that it didn’t work...
A Loaded Topic: Pioneer Valley firearms community is active, but often hidden

A Loaded Topic: Pioneer Valley firearms community is active, but often hidden

by Pete Redington | Jan 15, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News

The Conway Sportsman’s Club lies at the dead end of a quarter mile dirt driveway, a small cabin of a building flanked by a panoramic wooded hillside containing several shooting ranges, whose ridgeline separates the South and Bear River watersheds. At a shaded table...
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Man bites dog … while naked and on meth

Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Man bites dog … while naked and on meth

by Advocate Staff | Jan 9, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Podcast

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 man biting a dog while on meth, a new CVS-receipt-based scarf, and a mystery nonhuman...
With majorities in both Houses, ROE Act could expand abortion rights in Mass

With majorities in both Houses, ROE Act could expand abortion rights in Mass

by Luis Fieldman | Jan 8, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News

As the constitutional right to an abortion is threatened in various states and in the country as a whole, the Massachusetts Legislature may soon consider an expansion of abortion rights in the state. Massachusetts lacks a program to financially support individuals who...
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