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By STEVE PFARRER

There’s been a lot written about the problems that have plagued many American workplaces in the wake of the pandemic, from employees insisting on continuing to work at home to offices that have mirrored the polarization and social conflicts plaguing...

By STEVE PFARRER

Hannah Arendt famously coined the term “the banality of evil” in her book on Adolph Eichmann’s trial in Israel in 1963, where the former Nazi official, a key organizer of the Holocaust, presented himself as a bureaucrat who was “just doing his job” in...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Over the last several months, Four Rivers Charter Public School students have traveled around New England, documenting stories of formerly incarcerated people and their roles in green reentry programs.The result is “Roots of Change,” a...

By DOMENIC POLI

In the fall of 1973, Wendell resident Dan Keller drove to Bradley International Airport in Connecticut to pick up friend Sam Lovejoy and mentioned to his pal that he wouldn’t believe what had been built back home on the Montague Plains.The two drove...

By STEVE PFARRER

Dr. Khama Ennis had come a long way in her medical career.Until 2022, the Amherst resident had spent about two decades in emergency medicine, including a number of years as chief of emergency medicine at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, as...

By STEVE PFARRER

Though it had only an initial limited theatrical release, and did not appear until December, “American Fiction” has already popped up on a number of critics’ “best films of 2023” lists, and the movie has been nominated for a slew of awards.The buzz is...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Garden Cinemas plans to experiment for two months by showing movies with open captions to determine the popularity of doing so.The Main Street theater already provides assistive listening devices and closed-captioning viewer screens...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Greenfield District Court last week granted a local mother a temporary harassment prevention order on behalf of her 12-year-old child against Hollywood actor Ezra Miller, according to published news reports.Details are scarce because of...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — A huge grin spreads across Paul Mardas’ face as he recounts the story of when he and a Michigan couple took home stacks of money over the course of half a decade through the Massachusetts Lottery.By 2011, Mardas and his store, Billy’s...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SHELBURNE FALLS — Despite the first 70-degree day of the year, it was holiday season in the village once again as production crews unraveled faux snow and unpacked cameras Friday in preparation to film “The Holdovers.”Onlookers in the village are just...

By CHRIS LARABEE

CONWAY — Have you ever wondered how the town of Conway built such a beautiful library? A new documentary has the answers. Entitled “A Gift of Prosperity,” the production follows the life story of Marshall Field, a Conway native who built a...