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By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — The city is no stranger to addictions, crime, and the incarcerated, but a new initiative that officially launched this month will bring city and county resources under one roof as a way to address these endemic problems.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — It’ll be awhile before residents forget the chaos of last spring’s annual Town Meeting — and town officials are intent on ensuring it doesn’t happen again.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — Three weeks after holding an open house to gather feedback about creation of the town’s first comprehensive plan, Planning Board members are expressing reservations about the work compiled so far by a Boston consulting company the town hired to advise the process.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WORTHINGTON — Marcia Estelle, who serves as president of the board of directors for The Maples senior living facility now that’s she’s retired from teaching, is used to planning bingo nights and community dinners, not perusing congressional budgets. But that has changed.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

PLAINFIELD — Plainfield’s Annual “Rowdy” Dog Show, sponsored by the town’s Historical Society and Recreation Committee, will take place Saturday from 2-4 p.m.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — Building codes in Victorian America were antiquated, but the nationally circulated story of a fire in Holyoke is a large part of the reason why the doors of public buildings, even today, open outward, allowing people to flow out of a building and not get caught behind doors in case of an emergency.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WORTHINGTON — To say that Officer John Scobie was appointed police chief last week may imply that he oversees a department. But that’s not exactly the case.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — Beaver Brook Golf Course is officially going wild.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — Never settle when you’re rejected for a job — try again, that same job could get you called a “heroine” by the state.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN — Upper Highland Lake at the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) State Forest is currently closed due to elevated bacterial levels in the water. The lake will be tested again on Monday.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CHESTERFIELD — If the hot rod hasn’t come out of the garage yet this spring, Saturday would be the day.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — The end of June marked the end of a more than 30-year career for someone who needs hardly any introduction to the people of Paradise City. But for those who don’t know her, Jenny Fleming-Ives, the deeply religious reproductive health specialist at Tapestry Health, is stepping out from behind her desk after 33 years in the role.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WESTHAMPTON — Exactly 240 people came out with their lawn chairs on Saturday at the town’s library in hopes of being a part of a world record for the largest gathering of people reading in lawn chairs.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — New development and the tax revenue it produces, more affordable housing options and more business: good.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — With millions invested in technology and staff, the hospital’s footprint growing with a new emergency department, and new education and transportation options, Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s new leader says the regional hospital is on course to offer some of the best health care services in the country.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN — In just a two-month period, Colleen Wilcox-Mayer has gone from being at the center of town life where she is known for her 20-plus years of work at the post office, to being driven back and forth to Boston for chemotherapy three days a week after a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis in May.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CHESTERFIELD — Any synonym for the word “disaster” describes the current state of Chesterfield’s municipal buildings.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

AMHERST — Shared experiences of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) along with coffee and muffins were the breakfast mix at Bangs Community Center last Friday.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

The Cummington Cultural District is bringing a wave of summer activities, including one scheduled for this weekend.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — The governor has spoken — after more than a decade under state control, the Holyoke Public Schools will officially exit receivership beginning July 1, a move that state and city officials are touting as a “proud day” for the Paper City but that its teachers union says fails to give them the power to negotiate.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — More than two years after Eversource cut town 20 ancient sugar maples on Brickhouse Road without the town’s knowledge, in what resident Aliza Ansell equated to a “pillage and massacre,” a new tree alliance formed in the wake of the incident recently began restoring some of the lost beauty.