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Guest columnist Police Chief Jennifer Gundersen: Driving too fast all over town
11-10-2024 8:32 AM

By POLICE CHIEF JENNIFER GUNDERSEN

 At a recent Community Office Hours, I had the opportunity to hear from longtime South Hadley resident Ray Rondeau. Mr. Rondeau explained to me, like many other residents have during my community conversations, that the aggressive driving in South...

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South Hadley voters to consider flexible zoning, other articles at special TM
11-09-2024 4:06 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Town Meeting members will discuss eight bylaws to update the flexible development zoning bylaw, create animal impoundment guidelines and remove lawn care requirements during a special Town Meeting on Wednesday.The meeting at the Pioneer...


Community connectors: After 25-pus years on the job each, two South Hadley mail carriers are integral parts of neighborhood
11-08-2024 5:17 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Within the first few minutes of Robert Mandeville’s arrival at Loomis Village each day, 30 to 40 seniors crowd into the mailroom to chat with “Bob the mailman.” “They (Loomis Village residents) don’t have visitors coming in all the...


Mary Hall: The Fourth Amendment and government’s ‘new phase’
11-07-2024 8:33 PM

On Nov. 6, Donald J. Trump Sr. won election to a second term as president of the United States. With this development, the work of those who value democracy in this country has entered a new phase.In a Sept. 30 letter to the Gazette, I wrestled with...


South Hadley clears key hurdle on way to construction of new school
11-07-2024 10:15 AM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A proposal to construct a new Mosier Elementary School building is moving forward after the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s board of directors approved the project to begin its feasibility phase. “We’re pretty thrilled,”...


Jacki Dupre: Do your homework, South Hadley
11-06-2024 10:21 PM

I am writing to express my concern regarding proposed Article 9, which the South Hadley Planning Board intends to bring to a vote at the special Town Meeting on Nov. 13. In talking to my neighbors and people I know in town, many are totally unaware...


Linda Sachs: South Hadley’s proposed new zoning is harmful
11-06-2024 10:21 PM

The article on new and amended zoning bylaws being voted on at the Nov. 13 South Hadley Town Meeting just scratches the surface of residents’ alarm over the harm they will cause. The zoning hands our town to developers.Even the chairs of the Tree...


South Hadley residents question need for 5 new officers
11-05-2024 1:33 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Despite a recent police staffing study suggesting South Hadley hire five more officers to fill in patrol gaps, residents at a recent forum had a different idea — reduce the workload of existing officers by spending more to address the...


Decision time: Big day expected at Pioneer Valley polls
11-04-2024 5:44 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Even as about a third of eligible voters in the region and across the state have already cast their ballots in the presidential election, many more voters are expected to come out to the polls on Tuesday to decide national, state and local races, as...


Daniel Czitrom: Harris missing opportunity on Social Security
11-01-2024 3:19 PM

I have been both puzzled and disappointed by the Kamala Harris campaign’s failure to put strengthening Social Security at the center of its message. This is an issue that transcends race and region, and appeals to a large majority of voters.Currently,...


South Hadley man gets 5-7 years for stealing $130K from Northampton, Deerfield antique businesses
10-30-2024 12:13 PM

By Staff Report

NORTHAMPTON — A South Hadley man was sentenced to serve five to seven years in state prison after admitting in Hampshire Superior Court Tuesday that he stole more than $100,000 in goods from antique businesses in Northampton and Deerfield in 2023,...


Peter Scotto: Trump’s turn
10-27-2024 7:35 PM

Now it’s Trump’s turn. Harris sat down for an interview with Fox and fielded hostile questions from Bret Baier. Little Donald Trump needs to sit down for an interview with MSNBC and answer questions from Rachel Maddow.But he won’t. He no longer has...


South Hadley voters to decide slate of zoning bylaws on Nov. 13
10-22-2024 1:09 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — With seven bylaws on the warrant for the Nov. 13 special Town Meeting, residents are raising objections to the proposed changes to zoning bylaws, including the flexible development bylaw, which they say gives too much control to...


Canine companions: Five College students foster, train puppies to become service dogs through Diggity Dogs partnership
10-13-2024 3:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Ever since Cash, a purebred black Labrador retriever, was about 8 weeks old, he has been University of Massachusetts senior Rachel Pranga’s constant companion, with her around the clock no matter where she goes or what she does.“He literally...


South Hadley High School named a School of Recognition by state
10-09-2024 3:21 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Massachussetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has named South Hadley High School one of the 2024 Schools of Recognition for their improvements in attendance and academic performance over the past three years....


South Hadley awaits word from state on new school
10-08-2024 12:45 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — As the town awaits an invitation from the Massachusetts School Building Authority into the next phase of its school construction grant program, the state agency is estimating that future enrollment at a potential new Mosier Elementary...


The tale of ‘The Student Tower’ at Mount Holyoke College
10-04-2024 4:25 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The large tower atop Mount Holyoke College’s Clapp Laboratory is named after the people whose fundraising efforts paid for a majority of the building a century ago — the students.The “blue lions” of a century ago raised thousands of...


New invader here: Spotted lanternfly appears in Hampshire County, posing threat to grapes, apples, other crops
10-03-2024 4:46 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — While lounging under a tree at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School, middle school student Addison Gosselin felt the tickle of a critter crawling on her leg.Gosselin ushered the little bug onto her hand, and immediately...


Mission with a vision: Granby Lions Club completes free eye screenings on some 400 children in two-town region
10-02-2024 3:32 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Luka Azeuedo, who is just under 2 years old, squirms in the arms Alphabet Soup Childcare Center emplyee Casey Rougeau while she positions him to look into a small black machine playing bird sounds and flashing blue, green and red dots.“Can...


Mary H. Hall: On responding to national emergencies
09-30-2024 5:29 PM

In aiming to do whatever any of us can to help the world we inhabit together, maintaining suppleness of heart and mind could be a benefit. As with keeping the body limber, this might seem effortless among the young and be of increasing difficulty as...


Carey, Oliveira outline legislative successes for South Hadley
09-27-2024 6:12 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — During a short appearance at Tuesday’s Select Board meeting, state Rep. Dan Carey gave his farewell as South Hadley’s representative with a short recount of his work this session tackling Chapter 90 and Chapter 70 funding, as well as...

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