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Beginnings and Endings

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Beginnings and Endings

6/13/26, Megan Zinn — Co-Host

Nancy Gertner, U.S. Dst Ct Judge (ret) & Harvard Law Professor: what the recent Supreme Court’s recent decisions mean for democracy, the future, & all of us.

Daniel Mason, the superlative, award-winning novelist on a nationwide book tour — tonight at the Odyssey Books in South Hadley– on “Country People.”

It’s Mayors Monday w/ Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: the ban/moratorium on data centers in his city & the $2million/yr in tax revenues one (!) could bring; then, summer in the City.

“And Death Shall Have No Dominion”— the community’s response this weekend.

Kemper Carlsen, Clinical Director, Fisher Home Hospice in Amherst: hospice & end-of- life care—what it is; also, their 20th anniversary & a $100,000 endowment campaign.

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