by Heather Brandon | Oct 25, 2006 | Urban Compass
Buzz about the new Fresh Acres store at the intersection of Wilbraham Avenue and Parker Street got me to arrive at the store’s doorstep a day after it opened. The Springfield Republican primed the pump in an October 18 business-section article just a day before...
by Heather Brandon | Oct 25, 2006 | Urban Compass
The Springfield School Committee apparently voted last week to cancel school on Wednesday, November 22, which was previously scheduled to be a half-day. This news comes from a small blurb in today’s Springfield Republican: Springfield school canceled for Nov. 22...
by Heather Brandon | Oct 25, 2006 | Urban Compass
The Bethesda Lutheran Church on Island Pond Road suffered a horrendous fire in its sanctuary on Sunday afternoon. CBS3 has been all over it, with on-the-scene coverage of the fire as it was being extinguished, follow-up coverage on the day after, and another story...
by Frank Dodge | Oct 25, 2006 | The Dodge Report
Now, I don’t listen all that much to the radio. But I did happen to get into my truck the other day after Jake borrowed it, and he not only had left the wipers on but he also had it tuned full blast to that NPR station. Which I don’t mind so much, except...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 25, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Before Jamie concludes his serialization of "Peep Show," I just wanted to interject with a brief psychosexual autobiography because a.) it doesn’t seem fair to drop the autobiographical burden entirely on Jamie, and b.) we’re both the products of...