by On Springfield | Mar 4, 2013 | On Springfield
Like suitors on Valentine’s Day, MGM and Penn National have been courting the city of Springfield with gifts, sort of the municipal version of candy and flowers: the former’s $50,000 donation to the South End Community Center’s after-school program,...
by Free Sport | Mar 4, 2013 | Free Sport
In 1938, a German ski team was dispatched to Western Massachusetts by Adolf Hitler to compete in the Eastern Downhill Championships, which were held that year on the slopes of Mount Greylock. Over seven thousand spectators lined the wooded ski trail called...
by Mark Roessler | Mar 4, 2013 | Wellness
Last October, Valley residents Anasuya Weil and her daughter Mira presented a paper at the Second International Conference on Tibetan Medicine, held in Dharamsala, India. Since Tibet was invaded by the Chinese in the 1950s, Dharamsala has been where the Dalai Lama...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 4, 2013 | Stage
Each spring, the reawakening of the region’s maple trees serves as inspiration for an intergenerational “celebration of sap” in Shelburne Falls. The fourth annual Syrup performing arts festival fills this weekend with music, theater, dance and...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 4, 2013 | Stage
Maureen is overweight and single, her sister Sheila is slim and married, and neither of them is getting any younger. Maureen uses self-deprecating humor to mask her insecurities, while Sheila depends on cosmetic surgery. In Jon Lonoff’s romantic comedy Skin...