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Valley Voices 4/8/17

The Women’s Fund of Western Mass will now offer three optional college credit for it’s Leadership Institute for Political and Public Impact (LIPPI) through a partnership with Bay Path University. WHMP’s Stephanie Slysz speaks with Women’s Fund Program Officer Ellen Moorhouse, the Director of the Master’s Non-Profit Management and Strategic Fundraising Sylvia deHaas Phillips, and Chelsea Kline, a Women’s Fund Board member and the Well Humanities and Leadership Director at Bay Path. Interested women can apply to LIPPI when the application becomes available at the end of April.

Easthampton resident, artist and longtime marijuana grower Marty Klein sits down with WHMP’s Stephanie Slysz to talk pot ahead of his information session in Amherst on Sunday afternoon on growing dispensary-grade marijuana at home for personal use.

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