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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 WEISBLATI know I wrote about cookies and a virtual cookie exchange last week, and this paper featured some excellent guidelines for cookie swaps. Nevertheless, I am obliged as a food writer to return to the topic again this week. Today,...

At this time of year, I tend to serve a lot of comfort food to my guests. The sun hasn’t yet reached its solstice, but somehow in early December it seems darker and colder than it will later in the month … perhaps because later in the month we’ll have...

Tom Cranston had a thriving veterinary practice in 1975 when he purchased his father’s dairy farm on Baptist Corner Road in Ashfield. Tom told me in a recent interview that giving up his first career was a “tough choice.” “But I decided I’d like...

Joshua Kovacs is 16 years old and has been cooking since he was about 7. He does a lot of the food preparation in his home. Learning to cook wasn’t a matter of survival for him, but it was a matter of enriching life.His parents cooked from time to...