Despite certain advances in medieval historiography, there is still a general assumption that the middle ages were a period of despair, a time when the innovations of the Roman Empire crumbled, a ...
Elizabeth Mawrey, 20, who is an junior english major at UMass and president President of the Cannabis Education Coalition, sits for a portrait Friday afternoon at the Orchard Hill section of campus in ...
Writing a book about the deeply painful and complex history of the n-word is a significant undertaking, as is writing a memoir about a complicated relationship with one’s father. For Smith College ...
Best CELEBRATING THE 2025 BEST OF THE VALLEY READERS’ POLL WINNERS ...
Payton Shubrick, CEO and founder of 6 Brick’s cannabis retail store, on Tuesday afternoon in Springfield.
As a nimble alternative weekly newspaper with an eager and talented staff, we invest time developing stories about people, places and topics that the mainstream media doesn’t have the time or, in some ...
PEXELS/Lisa Fotios No matter how hard I think about it, I can’t dream up a plausible public health or safety rationale for dividing the market between tobacco sellers, alcohol sellers, and weed ...
STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Not that long ago, right here in our Valley, a woman, thought to be a witch, was brutalized and left for dead. But she survived. She is buried in the Old Hadley Cemetery. I ...
A dream came true last year for Jamie Manning when he spent two days recording an original song in England after winning a competition that garnered 5,500 entries from — one could say — here, there ...
Springfield, Massachusetts, was a big abolitionist hub during the days of the Underground Railroad — not that many people know this. When talking about Massachusetts history, Western Mass isn’t well ...
Alex Morse has a new pup — a goldendoodle that answers to Oliver. Can you say inseparable? The Holyoke mayor brought him home from Pennsylvania and claims that the quarantine has afforded him a bit ...
“Emily’s mission in life is to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies.” This sentence mesmerized me. Ryan Lash/TED Emily Nagoski speaks at TED 2018. It’s an assured statement ...
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