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Fiddleheads, asparagus and ramps! It’s late May, and spring is happening for real in the 413. No more False Spring, Fool’s Spring, Mud Season or the Ides of Dirty Snow. You can tell, because the produce departments at Berkshire Food Co-op and Wild Oats are ramping up for the parade of fresh vegetables that are poking out of the warm earth regionwide. “It's almost like my taste buds come out of hibernation,” says Devorah Sawyer, a sworn veggie lover and marketing manager at the co-op in Great Barrington. The way she figures it, lots of people eat the same way in the dead of...

Try refreshing your browser, or Today's letters: COVID has brought a mental health crisis too Back to video I want to thank Drs. Kelley Zwicker, Andrzej Rochowski, and Jane Liddle for bringing the issue of children’s mental health to public attention. As a doctor, I am aware that the health system wasn’t prepared for an infectious disease pandemic, but it became prepared. People were dying of COVID-19: public health and governments mobilized; more hospital beds were found; and health care workers took extra shifts to manage. We built field hospitals and moved patients around the provinc...