by Dave Eisenstadter | Sep 25, 2017 | Articles, News, Newsletter
Jamey Summers is in a good mood for someone about to have surgery. Beside the 41-year-old Northampton resident, who sits on an exam chair, Dr. Kate Atkinson is going over the procedure with her staff — they will insert four small rods containing drugs to curb opioid...
by Advocate Staff | Sep 25, 2017 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, News
A Home for the Homeless? Not having a place to live was not a good enough excuse to get a Turkish man out of house arrest. A 31-year-old homeless man living in Istanbul, was sentenced to house arrest for using and selling drugs in April. In need of a house to be...
by Greenfield Recorder Editorial Board | Sep 5, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Between the Lines, News
Forty years ago, the Shea Theater building in downtown Turners Falls was a shell about to collapse in on itself. But Montague leaders saw the building’s potential to boost the village’s economic fortunes and acquired the Shea. With help from grants, Montague...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Sep 5, 2017 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, News, News of the Weird
Score One For The Peaceful Frog Dude White supremacists love Pepe the Frog, and have been using the cartoon character to promote their racist ideals, including through a children’s book. But the original creator of the frog, from whom white supremacists stole the...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Aug 28, 2017 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, News, News of the Weird
Getting High Off Trump German police, during a random traffic stop, seized a stash of Donald Trump-shaped drugs. The drugs were ecstasy pills pressed into the shape of Trump’s head, and the word “Trump” was on the back. Police recovered 5,000 of the pills, worth about...
