AMHERST – Public libraries throughout the region are reopening and returning to somewhat normal, if at times more limited, operations.At the special collections room at the Jones Library in Amherst, which hasn’t been open to the public since March.
We approach the end of May, and with it the end of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. It was only two short months ago when an act of extreme violence catapulted the reality of anti-Asian and anti-Asian-American bias and.
What do a public library and the great outdoors have in common? Because I write about nature and the environment, I’ve always made use of library books on nature. But it took me a long time to fully realize how closely and intimately libraries and the.
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Bees retrieve pollen from an azalea bush, one of the first plants that blooms in spring, in Jessica Tanner’s yard in Northampton. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Jessica Tanner cleans out dead stems from her pollinator garden at her home in Northampton. She leaves the stems all winter so insects can live in them throughout the cold months and hatch in the spring. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Bees retrieve pollen from an Azalea bush, one of the first plants that blooms in spring, in Jessica Tanner’s yard in Northampton. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Six regional writers will be featured at the Voices for Resistance May 19 event. Sponsored by the Straw Dog Writers Guild and Forbes Library, the reading will begin at 7