It was getting pretty late in the afternoon when we finally managed to set out for a visit to one of the farms participating in the annual, Franklin County-wide, Cider Days event. We tried the Clarkdale Fruit Farm last year during the [...]
"If you wouldn't want to drink it, why would you want to breathe it?" That very reasonable question by a Greenfield resident to the Greenfield Appointment and Ordinance Committee at a public hearing last Monday summed up the concerns of the 100 people in the Greenfield Middle' [...] 

From the Western Mass. Jobs With Justice listserv:
NO LAYOFFS! NO TAKEAWAYS! INFORMATIONAL PICKET AT COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL
4-6pm, 30 Locust Street (Rte 9), Northampton. Nurses at Cooley Dickinson hospital--proud members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, a state-wide union of direct-care nurses--are refusing [...]

