USA Today
by Dan D’Ambrosio
Source: Bloomsberries BURLINGTON, Vt. — A federal judge is weighing whether to put the brakes on Vermont’s first-in-the-nation genetically modified organism labeling law before it even goes into effect.
Judge Christina Reiss had probing questions for both sides [continue reading]
Archive for Regional and Town Information
Keeping Warm & Safe When It’s Extremely Cold!
Jan
7
2015
“The National Weather Service (NWS) is forecasting bitter cold temperatures throughout the Commonwealth for the remainder of the week. As the temperatures continue to plummet, wind chills are expected to reach -15 to -30 degrees in some areas,” stated Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) Director Kurt Schwartz. “To that end, MEMA presents these cold weather [continue reading]
Engage in Community-Based Learning & Service: Become a Pet Foster Family
Dec
7
2014
Engage in some furry family community service by becoming a foster family for a local animal shelter or humane society! Cats, dogs, rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, and even birds await foster placements all over western Massachusetts, and providing a foster home to pets waiting adoption is a fantastic way to not only enjoy some animal [continue reading]
The Good Life: A Parent As Sports Spectator
Nov
22
2014
As a parent of a little child, you spend so much time protecting from the jarring contact of the outside world. Sometimes it seems the world is just full of accidents waiting to happen and you are there to protect your child from them the best you can….And then there is sports with its crunching [continue reading]
Grow Food Northampton names Clem Clay of Amherst new executive director
Nov
21
2014
The Daily Hampshire Gazette. November 21, 2014. By Gena Mangiaratti.
NORTHAMPTON — Four years after its founding, Grow Food Northampton has named a new executive director, Clem Clay, who grew up on a farm in Vermont, managed farmers markets in California and spent a decade in land preservation work.
Clay, 44, [continue reading]
NORTHAMPTON — Four years after its founding, Grow Food Northampton has named a new executive director, Clem Clay, who grew up on a farm in Vermont, managed farmers markets in California and spent a decade in land preservation work.
Clay, 44, [continue reading]
Massachusetts maple syrup wins international awards State sugarmakers take honors in competition
Nov
13
2014
Two Massachusetts maple syrup producers took honors at an annual international maple products contest, held this year in Wolfville, Nova Scotia at the annual meetings of the North American Maple Syrup Council and International Maple Syrup Institute. Sugarmakers from the United States and Canada entered their maple syrup, candy and cream to have them judged [continue reading]
Battle of the burritos: Writer Amanda Drane chows her way through three counties
Nov
12
2014
Daily Hampshire Gazette. November 8, 2014. By Amanda Drane.
Allow me to interrupt my grumbling gastrointestinal system to tell you what I learned during my recent burrito crawl — the region has no shortage of big, bruising burritos. And some of them even taste good.
Mine was a journey of [continue reading]
Allow me to interrupt my grumbling gastrointestinal system to tell you what I learned during my recent burrito crawl — the region has no shortage of big, bruising burritos. And some of them even taste good.
Mine was a journey of [continue reading]
Connecting Math Education to Real Life Scenarios
Oct
29
2014
Have you ever thought to measure your family’s consumption of things not in pounds, gallons, or grams, but in terms of children, cats, or pebbles? Exploring statistics becomes more interesting when children learn how to be creative with not only the units used, but the topics that they research, as well. Drawing inspiration from the [continue reading]
Amherst bylaw dating back to 1966 jeopardizes farm intern program
Oct
25
2014
The Daily Hampshire Gazette. October 22, 2014. By Scott Merzbach.
AMHERST — Driving stakes into the ground and stringing up tomato plants on them was hard work for Samantha “Sam” Bavelock.
Despite the many hours of planting, weeding and harvesting she put in as an intern with the Many Hands Farm [continue reading]
AMHERST — Driving stakes into the ground and stringing up tomato plants on them was hard work for Samantha “Sam” Bavelock.
Despite the many hours of planting, weeding and harvesting she put in as an intern with the Many Hands Farm [continue reading]
Local beekeeper’s Russian accent
Oct
23
2014
The Recorder. October 12, 2014. By Tom Relihan.
It was the early 1990s and America’s honey bees were under attack.
Dan Conlon, owner of Warm Colors Apiary in Deerfield, watched as hive after hive of his fellow beekeeper’s stock succumbed to the Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite against which European bees [continue reading]
It was the early 1990s and America’s honey bees were under attack.
Dan Conlon, owner of Warm Colors Apiary in Deerfield, watched as hive after hive of his fellow beekeeper’s stock succumbed to the Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite against which European bees [continue reading]
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