Posted by JenAudley - Thu, Aug 6, 2009, 2:46 P

Read all about it! (August 6, 2009)

Parliamentary pie-fight produces pared-down school budget - but will it stand? And the majority said, "Wha' happened?"; Native spokespeople speak with Gill selectboard on spokes burial site -- partnership proposed; Previews of Montague and Wendell Old Home Days, Block Party in Turners; Erving goes Green!; Reviews of Kristen Ford Band and Tuvan Throat Singers in Greenfield; Chris Sawyer-Laucanno's incandescent memories of Paris, the burning of Shakespeare & Co, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Fireword letter, in his own hand; Coming right up: Farmers' Market week in Massachusetts; and Deval Patrick vows not to shrink from tough challenges, while socking it to the little guy with new sales taxes... and more!

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