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The Farm Market Season Opens

WAMC

A very snowy winter and  a chilly start to spring in the northeast,has  people looking forward to the opening of farmers’ markets.  The number of farmers’ markets in Massachusetts has grown in each of the last several years.  The Farmers’ Market at Forest Park in Springfield opened for its 16th season last Tuesday. WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief spoke with the long time market manager Belle Rita Novak

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.