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By Jonathan Adolph

Even if you were never an avid summer camper, it’s easy to see the appeal of ESCAPE Camp, the weeklong overnight program for adults held at Amherst College in early June. Just the idea of living like a kid in your own college dorm room, eating what...

By PAT LEUCHTMAN

Ashfield resident Beverly Duncan has been overwhelmed with new ideas since her retirement from Mohawk Trail Regional School, something that is evidenced by the decorated walls of her studio.One wall is covered with framed botanical paintings. Other...

By PAT LEUCHTMAN

My new low-maintenance pollinator garden is full of fragrant flowers that bloom over the course of the season. Though I didn’t choose these flowers on purpose, I was pleased to find that so many fragrant plants have additional benefits — especially...

By BILL DANIELSON

I realize now that I got so swept up by the fact that I had set a new personal birding record for the month of November that I completely forgot I was in the middle of a series on sparrow identification. I was all set to culminate the series with the...

By BILL DANIELSON

September is that time of year when students in the United States go back to school. It is a predictable percussion point in the rhythm of American life, and it sets the tempo of many people’s lives for the following 10 months. As a teacher who...

By SHERYL HUNTER

When is Elvis coming back to Greenfield?    That’s a question I’ve heard more than once from readers of this column, and they aren’t referring to dead Elvis sightings in the area. Instead, they are wondering about Greenfield native Travis LeDoyt who...