By Jennifer Levesque For the Valley Advocate Celebrating a 40th anniversary of any kind is a huge milestone in life. When it ...

By Yana Tallon-Hicks For the Valley Advocate Dear Yana, My boyfriend (“Tim”) knowingly violated a red-line boundary of mine ...

By Jarice Hansen For the Valley Advocate Have you ever attended a reading of a play or story that went on to live in your ...

By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate Brooklyn-based artist Finnegan Shannon, who is disabled, has often wondered ...

The following piece includes candid depictions of substance use and addiction that may be triggering for some readers. Reader ...

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Liette Casey, upper right, with Agawam Paranormal leads an investigation in the upper floor of the 1754 Josiah Day House in West Springfield on Saturday evening, Sept. 14, 2019. The small lights are ...

Alex Morse has a new pup — a goldendoodle that answers to Oliver. Can you say inseparable? The Holyoke mayor brought him home from Pennsylvania and claims that the quarantine has afforded him a bit ...

If it was just that hippie rag, as detractors liked to rank it, well we hippie ragamuffins devoured it front to back. It spoke our language, the F-laden part included, and it was as underground as the ...

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A few months ago I received a CD in the mail from Georgia. I ended up putting it aside for far too long. I already had a lineup of reviews to end the year with and thought, ‘I’ll dive into that once ...