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Cold Weather Craft: The best seasonal beers for winter months
When predictions of blizzards rolled into town, our parents and grandparents ran to the package store and grabbed a 30-pack of cheap lager cans...
Backtalk: Cheers to good reporting on charter schools, the environment and fake news
Love for the Advocate
Cheers to the Valley Advocate writers and staff for excellence in informative journalism covering topics with both local and universal...
News of the Weird: Suspicions Confirmed
Schools’ standardized tests are often criticized as harmfully rigid, and in the latest version of the Texas Education Agency’s STAAR test, poet Sara...
Bad Seeds: Will legal recreational weed lead to more stoned students?
Rachel Desmond had her first smoke when she was 16. For the next six years, marijuana was a big part of her life.
“It was...
Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track of Them
In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews, while...
Cocktail of the Month Club: Dec. 2016
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This month, the Advocate visited the Five Eyed Fox in Turners Falls, where co-owner Aric Binaco showed us how to make...
Bizarro Briefs: Robocop Becomes Self Terminator
A Suicidal RobotOur D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself.We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots. pic.twitter.com/rGLTAWZMjn— Bilal...
Staff picks: Get out there and enjoy the Valley!
Upper Valley Music Festival – Saturday, April 29My wife is going to be participating in an all-day yoga event Saturday, leaving me with our...
Stagestruck: Culture Clashes on the Border and on the Island
Two plays in the Valley this weekend couldn’t be more different but at the same time so close to the bone of our current...
New Springfield Drug Court Offers Addicts An Alternative To Prison
It looks like a normal courtroom, but once a week, Courtroom 10 in Hampden District Court hosts a legal session that is anything but...
