By Domenic Poli Staff Writer A dream came true last year for Jamie Manning when he spent two days recording an original song ...
By Carolyn Brown Staff Writer It is rare to encounter a gigantic stuffed snake in a library, but a new exhibition makes it ...
People of a certain age often think pink wines are going to be sweet due to the dominance of the infamous White Zinfandel.
By Carolyn Brown For the Valley Advocate On a recent Saturday morning in Florence, two friends were arguing over who would be ...
By Carolyn Brown For the Valley Advocate The Academy of Music recently launched two initiatives to make performances more ...
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A gamechanger, they call it. A chance to face the challenges of your life head on. To free your mind, unencumbered by old negative patterns. Empowering your life. Re-setting your brain. Though it’s ...
The answer was supposed to be yes. She should return and recover. All she had to do was find the right cocktail, her doctor had said, the right mix of medications to manage the voices and the visions ...
I have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound. Not that long ago, and not that far from here, a woman, thought to be a witch, was brutalized and ...
The Bridge of Flowers may be closed to tourists this year but I can think of another great reason to visit Shelburne Falls — bowling! But this is a wine column. So, I’ll start again. The Bridge of ...
For many years I was a doctor in Springfield. I treated hundreds of patients, young and old, for asthma. It was painful to confront them in respiratory distress, audibly wheezing, struggling to get ...
“Emily’s mission in life is to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies.” This sentence mesmerized me. It’s an assured statement about a complicated topic: body image and ...