WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

Carrie Saldo and panelists discuss data centers in the 413, the challenge of filling aging government positions, potential for new high school graduation requirements, a new nature preserve in the Berkshires & much more.

We revisit our pop-up with Mal Devisa at Green River Festival and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.

We visit the Hilltown 6 pottery studios before their workshops and open house, take a tour of the Amherst Survival Center, and explore the difference between "wrack" and "rack" with the Word Nerd.

Across cultures, quilts are given as gifts to mark life transitions, like birth and marriage. The quilts in the Transmissions Quilts Project are made for transgender people, by artists who are transgender.

The federal holiday of Juneteenth on Friday brought a small crowd to the steps of city hall in Springfield, Massachusetts, for an annual commemoration and flag raising.

We check out what the Valley Arts Mentors have in store for their new exhibit "Revolution Artstories," and learn about the movement to book more women at music festivals.

We broadcast live from the Green River Festival grounds with musicians Ruby Ibarra, Swamp Dogg and Sunny War.

Daniel Nye is the new Veterans Services Director in Northampton, Massachusetts. Nye and the outgoing director Steven Connor say many details of the job have changed over the past two decades, but not the mission to help.

Ousmane Power-Greene tells the story of Crispus Attucks, we find out how Indë, Parris, and how the Ujima Singers will celebrate Juneteenth at The Iron Horse, and we McGovern with Jim McGovern.

We take a tour of Pomeroy's Vegetable Farm, check in with the 2026 Battle of the Botanicals fundraiser at the Hitchcock Center, and check out the newest editions to the slang dictionary with the Word Nerd.