8/19: CEO of MassPLAN (PipeLine Awareness Network) and PLAN-NE, Katy Eisman, discusses this week’s Supreme Judicial Court decision that says NO to pipeline companies’ demand that Massachusetts electrical customers pay to build their pipelines and the future of the Berkshire Gas’s moratorium in the Valley; Neftali Duran, Program Director of Nuestra Comida of Nuestra Raices in Holyoke and UMass professor and co-director of Holyoke Visible project in that city on upcoming celebrations of food ,language, and culture; The Mountain Top at the Chester Theatre –our conversation with director Colette Robert; actor (the role of MLK) Jordan Mahome and Chester Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer; Gleason, the just-released film that mesmerized the Sundance Film Festival, now at the Amherst Cinema—our conversation with producer Mary Rohlich (who is from Northampton) and director J. Clay Tweel.
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