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Arts Briefs: Ska in Easthampton, stories about food in Northampton, and more
02-05-2025 2:03 PM

It’s not often that we get to tell readers to skank to their hearts’ content, but that’s entirely the point of an upcoming event at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8: namely, “The 1st Annual NU England Ska Summit,” an all-ages festival celebrating ska and nu metal (which the event description jokingly calls “the two most respected genre’s [sic] of music”) at CitySpace in Easthampton.

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Hadley backs completion of 104-mile rail trial to Boston
02-07-2025 1:00 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Hadley officials are endorsing the complete build-out of the Mass Central Rail Trail, a 104-mile long trail that would link 26 communities across the state, extending the 11-mile Norwottuck Rail Trail that already connects the town with Northampton, Amherst and Belchertown.


South Hadley rolls out new radio tracking technology to quickly locate residents who wander
02-06-2025 12:23 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The South Hadley Police Department has launched a new program that employs radio tracking technology to quickly locate and save residents who are prone to wandering off.


Hadley planners restart work toward affordable housing zone
02-06-2025 11:48 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — The town’s Planning Board is asking the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission to resume its work plan that could lead to creating a so-called smart growth zoning district along the Route 9 corridor.


South Hadley superintendent: Trump moves could destabilize local budget
02-05-2025 2:59 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley’s interim superintendent is warning that the slew of new executive orders and funding alterations coming from the Trump administration could destabilize the district’s budget next fiscal year if federal education and health care costs are cut.


Tariffs on pause as experts call idea ‘unsettling’
02-03-2025 6:26 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH and SAMUEL GELINAS

The ever-shifting tariff landscape took a turn late Monday, as the U.S. agreed to pause tariffs on Canada for 30 days, several hours after agreeing to do the same with Mexico. China, meanwhile, was also preparing to talk trade with President Donald J. Trump about impending tariffs on its goods.


Hadley’s geothermal plans for Hopkins Academy spike in cost to $9.5M
01-31-2025 12:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A geothermal project to provide renewable energy to Hopkins Academy and improve the heating and cooling for the 1950s era building by replacing the existing boilers could cost around $9.5 million, with the schools picking up about $5.5 million of this cost, based on a report presented by consultants this week.


Guest columnist Stephen Fox: Just not ready for clean energy future
01-29-2025 9:59 PM

By STEPHEN FOX

 


Peter Scotto: Trump would choke on the Gospel
01-29-2025 9:56 PM

Honestly, if you simply preached the Gospel to Donald Trump and made him listen, he’d be outraged. All that stuff about loving your enemies, the last shall be the first, and rich men having a hard time getting into heaven? “Radical ideology.”


McGovern: Federal funding freeze ‘cruel,’ but Trump will try again
01-29-2025 5:11 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

 


Mount Holyoke student from Nigeria named Schwarzman Scholar
01-27-2025 4:38 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — It took a leap of faith for Mount Holyoke student Diamond Abiakalam-Chinagorom to commit to a historically women’s college in bucolic Massachusetts an ocean away from her home in bustling Lagos, Nigeria.


Hadley fire chief pitches full ambulance service starting in 2026
01-26-2025 10:51 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — By Jan. 1, 2026, Hadley firefighters could be running both a primary Advanced Life Support ambulance and a back-up Basic Life Support ambulance, if a plan proposed by Fire Chief Michael Spanknebel for staffing up the department gets support from town officials and voters this spring.


Nominations open for Hadley positions in May 20 election
01-26-2025 10:47 AM

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Rising to the challenge: Federal, state officials briefed on $90M fix for Hadley’s dike, levee system
01-24-2025 5:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — As the town faces a combined $90 million or more in spending needed to rebuild, improve and extend the dike and levee system that provides protection from Connecticut River flooding, state and federal officials are pledging to support the town in identifying the best approach to take in the face of a changing climate.


Report offers ways South Hadley’s fire districts can share services
01-24-2025 12:18 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A preliminary report on shared services between Fire District 1 and Fire District 2 outline several possibilities for collaboration on purchasing new equipment and standardizing technological systems between the two governing bodies.


Lawrence Tucker: More diversity and safety needed on Norwottuck Rail Trail
01-24-2025 10:55 AM

Even though we are in the winter season, work is continuing on the Route 9/Norwottuck corridor. With this project, MassDOT is making it evident that safety is a paramount concern. Safety of pedestrians, bicyclists and autos is being addressed in all aspects of this project. The design of “separate” paths” for bicyclists and pedestrians and autos represents a new level of safety.


New owners: No concrete plans for former Hadley farm stand
01-23-2025 6:00 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A former farm stand and ice cream parlor at 10 Rocky Hill Road, with 1.4 acres of farmland and a parking lot to accommodate 15 vehicles, was sold for $179,000 at a foreclosure auction Thursday morning.


Shel Horowitz: Feds won't help us, but citizen action will
01-23-2025 8:05 AM

Jack Tulloss’ letter, “Violence as wallpaper” [Jan. 17], makes many good points. But the author is wrong to suggest that “domestic transformation is out of the question.”


Shutesbury, Hadley lauded for digital inclusion ‘trailblazers’
01-21-2025 12:58 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Both Shutesbury and Hadley are being recognized as Digital Inclusion Trailblazers by the National Digital Inclusion Alliance for their efforts to close the digital divide for residents by providing access to affordable, high-speed internet and digital skills training.


South Hadley adopts traffic calming policy
01-19-2025 8:00 AM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Residents worried about drivers speeding through their neighborhoods now have a new way to request traffic calming measures from the town.


Amherst resident takes reins as New Salem town coordinator
01-15-2025 1:51 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

NEW SALEM — The new year means a new town coordinator for New Salem.

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