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By SAMUEL GELINAS
CUMMINGTON — There aren’t any hardware stores for Hilltown residents for about a 20-mile radius — except for Cummington Supply, which offers construction resources “from the concrete foundation up till right before the cabinets go in,” according to a...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — Family members, friends and colleagues gathered in Greenfield Community College’s Cohn Family Dining Commons Monday night to mourn the loss of change-maker, activist and beloved community member La Wanza Lett-Brewington.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — Educators from more than 24 schools and districts throughout the region gathered at Greenfield Community College Wednesday morning as keynote speaker Gaelin Elmore, a former NFL player, spoke of his tumultuous childhood and how community...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD – Gov. Maura Healey joined local and state officials outside the Franklin Regional Transit Authority’s (FRTA) offices Thursday afternoon to celebrate her administration’s $30 million earmark to fund year-round, fare-free transportation...
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — About a year from the start of a complete redesign of downtown dubbed Picture Main Street, the city has secured funding to hire a consultant to come up with ways to ease the impact of construction on businesses, residents and...
By SAMUEL GELINAS
PLAINFIELD — A marijuana cultivator that opened on Broom Street in 2018 is behind on property taxes in the amount of $56,458, prompting the town this week to unanimously vote not to renew the business’s host community agreement.Additionally, the town...
By SAMUEL GELINAS
GOSHEN — It wasn’t long ago that the memorial ellipse within the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) State Park — the oval-shaped area that honors people and historical events related to the American Revolution — was falling apart and in dire...
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
GILL – Earlier this summer, Stacey Hamel heard a rumor that since the barriers were placed on the French King Bridge in August 2023, neither Gill nor Erving first responders have been called to the bridge for rescue of people in crisis, or recovery of...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed an attachment to the fiscal year 2025 budget banning municipalities from taking the entire equity in a home in the event of a tax lien foreclosure, a practice detractors call “home equity theft.”The budget attachment,...
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
The 38th annual Green River Festival persevered through two days of severe weather this weekend as rain and thunderstorms brought delays and schedule changes for performers and festival-goers.Friday’s programming began when the gates to the Franklin...
By ALEXA LEWIS
WESTHAMPTON — An experienced educator who recently led the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District has been offered the job of interim superintendent for the Hampshire Regional School District, giving the district another year to find a permanent...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY/AMHERST — One of the region’s largest independent and assisted living communities is in the middle of a significant renovation at its Amherst and South Hadley locations that it says will provide more apartments, add community spaces and...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — When Paul C. Robillard’s B-17 bomber went down over Europe on Oct. 4, 1943, he had no idea where he landed. A farmer approached Robillard and his crew, so Robillard took the opportunity to get his bearings. He asked the farmer a...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — Voters will decide whether to approve a new senior tax work-off program and fund an additional assistant principal at the high school at a special Town Meeting on Wednesday.Half of the 12-article warrant establishes fees to generate...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — A week after six South Hadley High School staff members were physically assaulted by students in three separate incidents, the School Committee and Select Board agreed this week to ask residents to approve funding for a second assistant...
By Emilee Klein
NORTHAMPTON — In the dim pink light of the Majestic Saloon on Main Street, people pack around tables watching “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” interrupting the movie playing on a screen above the bar every few minutes with an innuendo said in unison or...
By SHELBY BROCK
SHUTESBURY — By a vote of 40-37, residents at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting narrowly shot down a bylaw that would ban public access to the Lake Wyola Dam and institute fines for trespassers.Other topics on the 33-article warrant that merited the most...
By MARY BYRNE
GREENFIELD — Rather than stopping criminals, more gun laws in Massachusetts will only serve to punish “law-abiding citizens.”That was the message from a majority of those who spoke before a panel of experts as part of a comprehensive review of the...
By JAMES PENTLAND
After taking in the largest number of dogs it has received in a single rescue effort in its 54-year history last month in Plainfield, the Dakin Humane Society has made good progress in finding homes for them.“We have so many applications for them that...
By BERA DUNAU
BOSTON — A bill introduced by state Rep. Dan Carey, D-Easthampton, would make fleeing from the police in a vehicle in a reckless or negligent manner a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $2,500.“This proposed...
By BERA DUNAU
The lessons we learn as children can echo throughout our lifetime, sometimes emerging in crucial, defining moments.This was certainly the case for Britt Slabinski, as he sat on the ramp of a helicopter in Afghanistan in 2002, contemplating ordering...
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