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By EMILEE KLEIN
SPRINGFIELD — Just as Nadia Milleron began to address the press on a recent afternoon, standing in front of bright yellow banners that read “Nadia Milleron for Congress,” the bells of the Springfield Courthouse rang out, as if announcing her campaign...
By EMILEE KLEIN
NOTHAMPTON — The Halloween Parade at the Campus School, a lab school of 155 students affiliated with Smith College, had appeared to build community around the American tradition of dressing up and collecting candy.Each year in October, students would...
By EMILEE KLEIN
HOLYOKE — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren toured the Holyoke Health Center on Thursday afternoon to meet with health care professionals and trainees who will benefit from the $1 million she helped secure in March to begin a workforce training facility....
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — With 60 national elections taking place this year across the world, 2024 is considered the biggest election year in history, with many of the elections involving polarizing figures and topics.The United States is no exception: Polling...
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY — Residents voted down the proposed animal control bylaw at the special Town Meeting Monday night, calling the legislation “unduly restrictive” for a farming community.“It seems very atypical for a farming community to have a leash law,”...
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...
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORHTAMPTON — Northampton resident Billy Park took his daughter camping on Labor Day weekend in North Carolina, spending the last moments of summer with his brother and brother’s family.He doesn’t know if that campsite is currently under water.A...
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — In celebrating their 30th anniversary with an art show titled “Fables & Folklore: Reframing the Classics,” the Paradise City Arts Festival unveiled a legend of their own last weekend.Jenny Lind, a Swedish opera singer from the 19th...
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY — A special Town Meeting next week will give residents a chance to approve a property tax work off program for seniors and veterans and adopt a new animal control bylaw with stricter leash laws.Voters will discuss the six-article warrant...
By EMILEE KLEIN
BELCHERTOWN — Police Chief Kevin Pacunas is appealing an Eastern Hampshire District Court judge’s ruling that reversed his decision to deny a resident’s application for a gun license.In his appeal to Hampshire Superior Court, filed Sept. 23, Pacunas...
By EMILEE KLEIN
BELCHERTOWN — A Belchertown restaurant is facing charges for allegedly serving 22 shots of liquor to three underage employees over a six-hour period in early August, one of whom got into a car crash while driving under the influence in Ludlow a short...
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....
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...
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...
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — A former Northampton man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Hampshire Superior Court to the assault and rape of a Ware child younger than 14, as well as possession of child abuse material on his computer over a four-year period, an official...
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...
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...
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY — The company that hopes to operate a gravel pit off Trompke Avenue has scaled back its proposed operations considerably in an amended special permit application that the Select Board took under advisement Thursday night.LJ Development, of...
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...
By EMILEE KLEIN
BELCHERTOWN — Starbucks continued its expansion in the Pioneer Valley on Wednesday with the opening of a cafe in Belchertown on North Main Street, just in time for pumpkin spice latte season.The franchise’s newest Hampshire County location now serves...
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