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This year, as I take on the responsibility of coordinating the Western Massachusetts Writing Project (WMWP), I along with my co-leader Chris Rea (also a frequent Chalk Talk contributor) am helping to facilitate the Summer Leadership Institute, a...

By STEVE PFARRER

The Sacred DogBy Joan LivingstonDarkstroke Books Franklin County author Joan Livingston, a former reporter and editor who once covered the Hilltowns for the Gazette, has used her experience to create a series of mystery novels set in similar towns,...

By MOLLY PARR

Cabbage, like cauliflower last year and kale before that, is having a moment. Last week, The Washington Post offered a recipe for shredded, roasted cabbage, served with jammy eggs and quinoa. The New York Times recently suggested grilling wedges of...

By Bob Flaherty

NORTHAMPTON — The jangling distant chords called to Jamie Kent at a young age. The Nashville recording artist’s childhood Florence home was a stone’s throw from the entrance to Look Memorial Park and the iconic Pines Theater nestled within. When...

By KATE KEELAN, ARIA MARTINELLI and LAURA FAY

A ring of teenage boys stashes cigarettes under stacks of napkins. A fleet of college girls whizzes past on bicycles, black robes billowing out behind them. Another pack of boys gathers on a bridge, ready to pelt them with water balloons.With the...

By REBECA PEREIRA

NORTHAMPTON — Western Massachusetts’s first trans, nonbinary and gender-expansive youth theater collective, Co-ACT, debuts on stage Wednesday with its initial musical production, breathing life into a scripted retelling of the ensemble’s real...

E — The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk: Is encouraging dairy farmers and cattle ranchers to capture methane gas from their livestock’s manure good or bad for the planet? — Phil Onorato, Pittsburgh, PA Methane capture, the process of using the decomposition of livestock...