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Recess, college style: UMass Outing Club gives hundreds of students chance to get outside and play
10-25-2024 1:28 PM

By NAOMI SCULLY-BRISTOL

AMHERST — As they navigated the steep and rocky terrain of Mount Abraham, members of the UMass Amherst Outing Club struggled together as they carried a 150-pound dog down the mountain on a makeshift stretcher of blankets.It was a beautiful fall day in...

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State reports 100% negative results for bird flu in dairy herds
10-21-2024 12:00 PM

By MARA MELLITS

Earlier this year, a nationwide outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in cows caused panic for dairy farmers everywhere. Now, Massachusetts has become the only state to test all of its dairy herds, from 95 farms, and achieve 100% negative...


Valley Bounty: Beans are her thing: Five years in, Heather McCann of Rustic Outlook Farm has launched her own bean club
10-21-2024 11:58 AM

By JACOB NELSON

When Heather McCann founded her Belchertown farm, Rustic Outlook, in 2020, she picked a niche that few local farmers have chosen. She decided to make beans her thing.Dry beans, specifically. They’re a pantry staple that lasts for years and a delicious...


‘A beautiful time of the year’: New state foliage map helps residents, tourists make autumn plans
10-21-2024 11:56 AM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

As peak fall foliage season arrives, experts predict a season as brilliant as ever.“The fall in New England is notoriously beautiful, and we have no reason to doubt that we’re going to have another beautiful fall foliage display this October,” says...


Around and About with Richard McCarthy: AI and I, part two: Can you guess which column was written by McCarthy and which was written by AI?
10-03-2024 5:06 PM

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

Last year I challenged Artificial Intelligence to produce a column in my style of writing, and the results were published in this newspaper. This year I repeated the experiment to see what advances AI had made.Working with Matthew Berube, head of...


Harvesting food, nourishing knowledge: Hampshire College Farm harnesses student energy while adapting to climate change
09-30-2024 12:41 PM

By JACOB NELSON

As college and university farms go, Hampshire College Farm is not a big one. What they do have in abundance is student energy, and true to the Hampshire philosophy, they’ve celebrated and empowered it.So far, the results have been fruitful. And,...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Time for a garden makeover: Seek help from professionals to see the big picture
09-19-2024 2:27 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

Late summer isn’t a pretty time in the garden, at least not in my garden. The recent mini-drought has bleached out what passes for lawn, several large hydrangeas are drooping as they beg me for water, the daylily borders are shriveled and brown....


Earth Matters: Coming together for climate action: Hitchcock Center facilitates conversation and action on a community level
09-19-2024 2:27 PM

By BILLY SPITZER

We are all experiencing the impacts of climate change more each day, in our own communities and around the world. Recent data from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication shows that 72% of Americans understand that climate change is real,...


Around and About with Richard McCarthy: Giving life a smooch ‘at my age’
09-13-2024 9:17 PM

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

Sometimes life teaches you things you never wanted to know.As I alluded to in a previous column, I broke my femur, or thigh bone, this past March 25th, when I went down on a patch of ice while bicycling. For those of you who do not know, the femur is...


Valley Bounty: This farm grows friendship: Connie and Bill Gillen encourage pick-your-own at Sunset Farm in Amherst
09-09-2024 10:44 AM

By LISA GOODRICH

Sunset Farm in Amherst is a neighborhood farm that emphasizes the social aspects of farming in community. Owners Connie and Bill Gillen grow vegetables and flowers on 10 acres, within walking and biking distance of the University of Massachusetts...


Chance Encounters with Bob Flaherty: Tobacco road — Harvest time at Hadley farm like a family reunion every day
09-03-2024 11:13 AM

By BOB FLAHERTY

HADLEY — There are TV shows with “friends” in the title and we all have enough Facebook friends to fill the Mullins Center, but the sort of companions who help you bring in the tobacco harvest on a hot weekend in August are the ones you want with you...


Let them run wild: Doc from Hadley-born filmmaker explores the lives of wild horses
08-22-2024 11:26 AM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

Growing up in Hadley, Steven Latham had a wild Chincoteague pony on his family farm, but it wasn’t until he learned about a veterans’ program pairing veterans with mustangs to train that he was inspired to create his documentary.“A couple friends told...


Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: You say tomato: A brief history of the fruit (or vegetable)
08-15-2024 6:29 PM

By MICKEY RATHBUN

It’s August and in my household that means one thing: local tomatoes. For much of the year, our grocery stores offer tomatoes tough enough to endure machine picking followed by days or weeks in cold storage. Even the more expensive, so-called...


‘The ice cream is just better here’: New Massachusetts Ice Cream Trail features many Hampshire County shops
08-15-2024 6:22 PM

By PAIGE HANSON

This summer, ice cream enthusiasts statewide can explore the newly established Massachusetts Ice Cream Trail, a self-guided tour of more than 100 ice cream shops in Massachusetts.Of the 100 locations statewide, seven of them are in Hampshire...


Earth Matters: Getting to the root of a weed: Who was Joe Pye, and is Joe Pye weed a cure for typhus or any other ailment?
08-08-2024 5:15 PM

By DAVID SPECTOR

In summer, many New England roads are lined with clouds of magenta flowers atop the tall stems of several species of Joe Pye weed, especially where the roads are bordered by damp ditches. Who was Joe Pye? A perusal of popular botanical sources reveals...


Fighting the good fight: Emily List Fund continues its commitment to inclusion in performing arts
08-08-2024 5:15 PM

By KAREN LIST

Anyone attending the Sci Tech Band’s spring concert in April in the school’s gym would have seen several hundred high school musicians all dressed in black warming up to play under a huge sign that says: “Everything Matters.”They would have heard...


Something for everyone: UMass Fine Arts Center announces robust 2024-2025 season lineup
08-08-2024 5:10 PM

By PAIGE HANSON

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center’s 2024-2025 season includes quite a few notable offerings, including “a one-time Grateful Dead keyboardist, two of the greatest artists in world music, jazz celebrations of the lives and work of...


A fearless literary leader: Massachusetts Review Executive Editor Jim Hicks steps down after a profound 15 years
08-01-2024 8:55 PM

By BOB FLAHERTY

Outgoing executive editor Jim Hicks of the Massachusetts Review has yet to warm up to his new surroundings.400 Venture Way looks like one of those ultra-tech monoliths that have “Solutions” as part of its name. Surrounded by a sea of blacktop and...


‘The ultimate person of conscience’: Friends remember anti-war activist Randy Kehler
08-01-2024 8:54 PM

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

SHELBURNE FALLS — Randy Kehler, a war-tax resister whose opposition to the Vietnam War, advocacy for social justice and refusal to pay federal taxes gained national attention, was remembered fondly this week by friends who fought alongside him for...


A trip down memory lane: A memory of visiting the Leverett Sawmill, in honor of the town 250th anniversary
07-17-2024 9:24 PM

By ALICE CARMICHAEL HARRIS

I fastened my helmet and threw my leg over the back of my boyfriend’s big BMW motorcycle. We had a perfect sunny day as we rode out of Amherst, past neat houses and farms, past acres of serene woodlands. It was July 4, 1974, and when Russ had read the...


Around and About with Richard McCarthy: Handling our devices: Or, are our devices handling us?
07-11-2024 8:53 PM

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

When I was a teenager, among the last things in the world I thought would render me uncool and out-of-it when I got older was technology. In fact, I don’t remember ever using, or even coming across the word “technology,” except my knowing MIT stood...

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