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Lois Ahrens, of Northampton, speaks to members of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, Tuesday, in the Northampton City Council Chambers.

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Women’s commission hears testimony in Northampton

by Amanda Drane @amandadraneMarch 16, 2016

Refrigerator magnets are displayed for sale in a tourist shop, several showing images of U.S. President Barack Obama, at a market in Havana, Cuba, Monday, March 14, 2016. President Obama will travel to Cuba on March 20. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Cuba embargo is slowly dismantled

by Michael Weissenstein Associated PressMarch 15, 2016

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talks to reporters following a closed-door caucus meeting at Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Tea party conservatives have blocked a budget plan backed by GOP leaders, a blow to Speaker Ryan and a reflection of the anti-Washington mood pushed by GOP front-runner Donald Trump. The move by the House Freedom Caucus, the same band of conservatives that toppled his predecessor, would mean that the House would fail to pass a budget for the first time since Republicans reclaimed control of the chamber in 2011.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Tea partiers block GOP leaders’ budget plan

by Andrew Taylor Associated PressMarch 15, 2016

Trader Joseph Lawler, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. U.S. stocks tumbled in the first minutes of trading as falling commodity prices again pulled energy and materials companies lower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stocks end mixed; drug firms slide

by Marley Jay Associated PressMarch 15, 2016

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Lawmakers urge action on solar bill

by Steve LeBlanc Associated PressMarch 15, 2016

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Second suspect arrested in UMass lockdown

by Michael Majchrowicz @mjmajchrowiczMarch 15, 2016

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Hadley absentee ballot deadline is March 23

by Staff Report March 15, 2016

Ashley Joubert-Gaddis, director of operations at the Sioux Falls-based nonprofit Center for Equality, holds a toilet seat at work on Friday, March 4, 2016, in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Center for Equality was one of many organizations that worked against a bill that would have required transgender students in South Dakota to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their sex at birth. (AP Photo/James Nord)

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Transgender bills moving forward in Legislature

by Associated Press March 15, 2016

CAROL LOLLIS
left, Margaret Gifford, the vocational director at Smith Vocational and Liz Tiley, the Adult Education Director, in the machine shop at Smith vocational where one of the adult education classes will be offered.

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Smith Voc launches adult ed program

by Stephanie McFeeters @mcfeetersMarch 15, 2016

Will Elwell, owner of Elwell Construction located in Ashfield, stands beside a trailer filled with timber to be used in the construction of a 10-by-15-foot cabin, the same size as Henry David Thoreau's cabin, at his workshop Monday. The cabin will be built with the help of others from the community at the intersection of Bellus and Beldingville Roads in the proposed path of the Kinder Morgan Northeast Energy Direct pipeline in Ashfield Wednesday.

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Builder to protest pipeline with cabin in Ashfield

by Richie Davis For the GazetteMarch 15, 2016