Motorcycle noise is a problem every summer in the Valley, said Cliff Crowley. He is working to pass laws to limit the noise. He is a member of a national group, Noise Free America
May 29, 2010
In Keene, Activists Fight Motorcycle Corporations
May 29, 2010
Pavers Winning the Race in the Valley; Locals Push Back
Massachusetts loses some 40 acres of open space to development every day. Every year, about 8,000 single-family houses are built in the four counties of western Massachusetts. In Hampshire and... Read more »
May 22, 2010
Photos: Volunteers Install a Solar Water Heater
On May 22, volunteers from the Greenfield-based group Co-op Power installed a solar water heater near Brattleboro. Farmer Elizabeth Wood showed one of the volunteers her dairy goats. To enlarge a... Read more »
May 15, 2010
Native New Zealander Might Sing in Northampton
Jess Harlen, a new singer from Australia with a stunning voice, has performed in Europe and Japan. Her next stop could be Northampton.
“I’d love to play there,” Harlen told the... Read more »
May 15, 2010
Uprising by Vermont Prisoners
Some three dozen Vermonters were on “lock down” at a private prison in Tennessee on May 14 for non-violent civil disobedience on May 12. A prison official refused to tell the Associated Press... Read more »