by On Springfield | Dec 10, 2012 | On Springfield
Western Mass. Politics and Insight has a juicy piece about the battle for the City Council presidency, which pits at-large Councilor (and incumbent President) Jimmy Ferrera against Ward 8 Councilor John Lysak. If Lysak wins, notes WMPI writer Matt Szafranski,...
by Free Sport | Dec 10, 2012 | Free Sport
As orange hats are once again donned for trail running during deer season, thoughts turn to the Tall Timber Lodge, the best little sports lodge in the North Country. (Located in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to be exact.) While home to less than nine hundred citizens,...
by Tom Sturm | Dec 10, 2012 | Stage
This holiday season the Monson-based Greene Room Productions offers not one but two performances of Arctic intrigue. The first is an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s classic children’s book The Polar Express, in which a doubting boy winds up at...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 10, 2012 | News
Last week, the state put into effect a final version of new regulations governing how homeless families qualify for emergency shelter. And while the new regulations are an improvement over earlier proposed rules, they still contain gaps that leave some families are...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 10, 2012 | News
The competition was fierce: would the winner be LEGO’s “Friends Butterfly Beauty Shop” featuring little plastic dolls who, the marketing copy notes, enjoy shopping, gossiping and “get[ting] primped and pretty”? Or maybe the 7-11 Slurpee...