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By TINKY WEISBLAT

Food fulfills many functions for human beings. It nourishes our bodies, giving us strength to face the world. It gives us a chance to express our creativity as we play with ingredients and recipes.To me, one of food’s most important purposes is to...

By MELISSA ELLIN 

Health care leaders are trying to find new ways to retain and recruit employees as the workforce shortage, which started in 2020, worsens nationwide. There are no clear answers to the labor shortage, and in Massachusetts, health care professionals say...

By NAN PARATI

As usual, Norm is right.There I was, ready to leave town for Christmas to spend time with family in North Carolina, just as I’ve always done. The traveling clothes were nestled in their suitcase and the gifts were loaded with care, when we got a good...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Kara and Chris Peters raise their glasses every December 31 and toss back shots of fire cider, greeting the New Year with a concoction Peters makes herself.“I started making fire cider when the kids were little, to try to boost immune systems and keep...

By BILL DANIELSON

Welcome to 2023! Another calendar has been used, another red journal finished and safely tucked away on a shelf and newness has taken over. I place a brand new desk blotter calendar on my office desk, I unwrap a brand new red journal and begin to...

By LIESEL NYGARD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Nancy Dole, owner of Nancy L. Dole Books and Ephemera on State Street, is paying tribute to late artist Judith Russell with a window display through Dec. 31.The idea for the display has its roots back in June, when Dole won an...

By Tinky Weisblat

I ran into a bit of a snag with this week’s column. I was supposed to visit a new restaurant to try its offerings. Unfortunately, staff members were sick, and they had to get better before I could go.I scanned my kitchen to decide what I could make...

By JACOB NELSON

With Agric Organics, Hameed Bello and his wife, Ayo, are intent on building an urban farm that can be a multi-faceted resource for their community in Wilbraham, supplying farm-fresh food, health and education while withstanding the challenges of...

By RORY SWEETING

NORTHFIELD — Inspired by It Takes a Village in Huntington, volunteers with the Ladies Benevolent Society of Northfield Farms are launching a free children’s clothing closet at the Field Library. A soft opening will be held at the library, located at...

By CARLA CHARTER

Inspired by an interest in crime and investigative journalism, Liesel Nygard, secretary and volunteer at the Warwick Historical Society, has begun a project researching the Warwick Prison Camp. The Warwick Prison Camp, located at what is now Warwick...

By JACOB NELSON

“Berry season is a wild ride,” says Rachel Monette, a longtime employee of Nourse Farms in Whately. Every summer it hits with intensity, like a sweet red raspberry bursting on your tongue. Then, too soon, it fades, leaving memories like...

By TINKY WEISBLAT

When Ingrid and Nancy Rivas were about 12, relatives started teaching them to cook. The twin sisters grew up in El Salvador. They remember the flavors of their childhood… and above all, the love.“Our mother and grandmothers loved to cook,” Nancy Rivas...

By TINKY WEISBLAT

I know I have written a lot of late about comfort food … but we’re smack dab in comfort food time of year. So today, I’m tackling one of my favorite spur-of-the moment comfort foods.The late food editor and writer Judith Jones identified certain foods...

By CRIS CARL

When I was growing up in southern Pennsylvania, I used to see plenty of grape arbors in my neighborhood. Some grew grapes for the landscaping affect, others I’m sure ate and made their grapes into wine.Joyce and Phillip Wiley purchased their property...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

In February 2020, documentary photographer and photo preservationist Terri Sevene Cappucci of Turners Falls was winnowing down decades of photographic materials in her scrupulously clean studio when she was offered about 4,000 glass-plate negatives...

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Wells Corner Store on Main Street in Charlemont was dark for as long as I can remember. Perhaps it was dark when John A. Wells started selling dry goods in the building in 1877. Today the new Wells Provisions is full of light, thanks to the hard work...

By BILL DANIELSON

Happy Memorial Day everyone!  If I could have one wish for you on this day, it would be that you are able to spend some quiet time sitting outside on a beautiful morning in a place filled with birds. Perhaps that means you are sitting in the backyard...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

SHELBURNE FALLS — A year before shocking charges of child molestation were levied against Richard Lavigne in 1991, I had two chances to meet with the then-admired priest of St. Joseph’s Parish.First, a parish member recommended I see him for...

By TINKY WEISBLAT

I planned to write today about a local restaurant — and I will visit that spot in another column — but I was distracted and entranced last week when I passed a farm stand that featured fresh local asparagus. I couldn’t wait to buy and cook some green...

By BILL DANIELSON

Last week, I started a two-part segment on woodpeckers. I took a look at the northern flicker, which is a bird that is somewhat uncommon in our area during the winter months. This is because flickers like to eat ants and they like to look for them on...