By MAUREEN O’REILLY and MAX MARCUS Staff Writers Published: 11/30/2019 11:00:52 AM After a recent service at the First Congregational Church in Ashfield, some of the churchgoers gathered upstairs to make herbal medicines and thank-you cards for migrant agricultural workers throughout Pioneer Valley. The church has partnered with the People’s Medicine Project, an organization that [...]
November 26, 2019 Contact: Abby Ferla, People’s Medicine Project (413) 523-3791 ; peoplesmedicineclinic@gmail.com People’s Medicine Project’s long-time client and friend Peter Hadley is launching a new catering company BASH, making its Pioneer Valley debut with an elaborate locally-sourced Tapas Style Dinner at Greenfield’s Hawks and Reed on Wednesday December 4th from 6-8PM! BASH emphasizes [...]
By KRISTEL APPLEBEE, Consortium Executive Director For the Gazette Published: 11/26/2019 12:01:19 AM The term “opioid epidemic” has become as American as apple pie in our nation’s lexicon. Here in western Massachusetts, communities have been hit hard by the crisis, with families grieving unthinkable losses. It seems most people know someone impacted. As a result, [...]
Amie Hyson listens during a rehearsal for "What Our Voices Carry", Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019 at Shea Theater in Turners Falls. By LUIS FIELDMAN Staff Writer Published: 11/1/2019 10:01:42 PM Through prose and poetry, women of the group Voices From Inside find a way to express experiences that are often too difficult to [...]