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By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — Mount Holyoke College will endow two new faculty chairs named after accomplished alums Debra Martin Chase, a film and musical producer, and Suzan-Lori Parks, a playwright, thanks to an anonymous $6 million gift — the largest gift from a...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — A building with 45 apartments for people 55-and-over, to be constructed at the Hadley Village Barn Shops site on Route 9 near the Coolidge Bridge, will move forward if revisions to the senior housing overlay district are approved by voters at...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — Town Meeting members voted down all four zoning bylaw amendments at a special Town Meeting on Wednesday, with a majority of residents expressing dissatisfaction about the lack of mandated affordable housing and natural resource...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — With a new senior housing overlay district in place, adopted by voters at a special Town Meeting Thursday, Amherst developer Barry Roberts said his team will begin preparing to bring forward a proposal for 55-and-over housing on a 30-acre...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The Amherst Regional School Committee is again coming out in opposition to a 100-student increase in enrollment at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School in Hadley, while at the same time endorsing the Mass Promise to Invest...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — Applications to join the board of trustees for the town’s first Affordable Housing Trust opened earlier this week, taking a major step forward in creating an organization dedicated to developing deed-restricted affordable housing in...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
NORTHAMPTON — A $100 million fund to support the health and resilience of the Connecticut River watershed, including money that would go toward improving aging flood controls and dikes and upgrading water and sewer systems, is being sought by area...
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...
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...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — Expanding the senior housing overlay district to accommodate a development off North Maple Street, adjusting the accessory dwelling unit bylaw and providing funding for a protective area beneath the new playground at Hadley Elementary School...
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...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — More than three months after the city of Northampton ordered a regional auto dealer to remove some 300 vehicles being stored at a vacant King Street lot it owns, the dealership’s owners have zeroed in on a spot in Hadley to keep the new...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — Whether filled with cheese, chicken or chocolate, or served at breakfast, lunch or dinner — or for dessert — both savory and sweet crepes are a great food concept, says The Skinny Pancake founder Benjy Adler.“It is an unusually versatile...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — A group purchasing program for electricity, designed to increase renewable energy use while also providing electricity supply options that help residents and businesses manage their costs, will be extended another three years.Hadley officials...
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...
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,”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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