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Alden Bourne
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Northampton is among the Massachusetts cities ready to give out grants from the state’s opioid settlement fund. The state is set to get $1 billion dollars from the national settlement with drug makers over the two decades.
Ayu Suryawan
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We get a double Live Music Friday with Mattie and Dabbie and Suitcase Junket and bring the latest Wine Thunderdome to Provisions.
Ayu Suryawan
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Carrie Saldo and panelists discuss ballot initiatives to ban social media use among teens and recreational marijuana use, hurdles faced by a housing authority to open up affordable housing, nuclear arms production in Pittsfield and more.
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