Joan Grenier News Today

In a radio career that has spanned nearly 35 years, Ray Graf has done it all. At one time or another he worked as an overnight board operator, a commercial copywriter, a reporter and a voiceover announcer. For several years - a lifetime ago - he was a morning drive disc jockey. Graf has been a member of the WAMC News team for 16 years. These days, he finds himself as The Roundtable's news anchor, panelist- and occasional guest host for Joe Donahue. "Radio news is not always easy,"...

Friends remember Jean Grossholtz, professor, campaigner for social, environmental justice JEAN GROSSHOLTZ Jean Grossholtz, a Mount Holyoke College professor, participated in demonstrations and civil disobedience all over the world. She loved protests that included playful creativity and campy community while making hard-hitting points about changes that needed to be made. COURTESY PHOTO Jean Grossholtz taught in an approachable style while challenging the conditioned thinking of her students ...

Friends remember Jean Grossholtz, professor, campaigner for social, environmental justice Jean Grossholtz was in elite academic circles as a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a professor at Mount Holyoke College, but when called to ask if she would pose for a portrait she didn’t comb her hair or put on a less wrinkled shirt. COURTESY PHOTO/SONALI GULATI Jean Grossholtz, a Mount Holyoke College professor, participated in demonstrations and civil disobedience all over th...

COVID marks new chapter for independent bookstores Updated Feb 16, 2021; Posted Feb 16, 2021 Zelmon "Zee" Johnson adjusts the shelves in her Olive Tree Books-n-Voices, a community bookstore on Hancock Street in Springfield. (Don Treeger / The Republican) Facebook Share SOUTH HADLEY — For Joan Grenier, owner of the Odyssey Bookshop across from Mount Holyoke College, 2020 was a year of constant reinvention — and gratitude. With business interrupted by the coronovirus pandemic, Grenier said ...