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EASTHAMPTON — After enjoying the music and refreshments offered at this year’s River Roads Festival, artists and community members banded together for a noble cause: picking up trash to preserve clean waterways. Nearly 40 volunteers made it out to...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — One blood donation takes about an hour out of a donor’s day, yet it has the ability to save the lives of up to three patients. But blood donations tend to slow down in the summer — people get busy, and they’re usually thinking about...
By ALEXA LEWIS
AMHERST — “Growing up poor, all I’ve ever wanted was financial freedom,” said Beatrice Rogers, a third-year psychology and holistic health major at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. But that freedom might be far away for Rogers, whose college...
By ALEXA LEWIS
Without greater investment in salaries for faculty and staff at community colleges in Massachusetts, a free tuition program launched this summer to great fanfare may be “doomed to fail.”That’s the alarm some education leaders are sounding as they call...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — After five years searching for the perfect spot for a new skate park, officials have come full circle to the site supporters wanted all along — Millside Park, where the last skate park had been located before its dismantling in 2006.The...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — The property at 1 Northampton St. which stands prominently near Pulaski Park at the downtown rotary received no bids at its public auction. Of the roughly 20 individuals gathered on the premises on Friday afternoon, none jumped at the...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — Election season is quickly approaching, but for some community members, making their voices heard at the polls can come with unexpected challenges.Among those at Transhealth, increasingly strict voter ID laws and a feeling of burgeoning...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — Election years often make apparent the most divisive aspects of politics and partisanship. For Dave Roitman, it’s important to keep in mind that democracy is a perpetual work in progress, and one that requires meaningful collaboration...
By ALEXA LEWIS
CHICOPEE — Imagine waking up to find that electronic technology has stopped working. Cellphones are down, traffic signals are dark and navigation systems are offline. The infrastructure behind modern life would be completely shut down, eventually...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — The search for a permanent superintendent is kicking off in Easthampton, and the School Committee anticipates announcing a job offer as early as December.At a School Committee meeting on Tuesday night, committee chair Laura Scott said...
By ALEXA LEWIS
For eight months, Northampton did not have a permanent police chief. In August, the city hired interim chief and longtime department member John Cartledge to lead the department, who was chosen from a pool of just four candidates. Similarly, Amherst...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — In its prominent Easthampton location near Pulaski Park at the rotary downtown, the property at 1 Northampton St. is set to be sold at a public auction this week.The property is zoned for mixed use as a commercial-residential...
By ALEXA LEWIS
SOUTHAMPTON — Police recovered a card skimmer discovered by staff at a Cumberland Farms in Southampton on Thursday. The skimmer was affixed to the left register, or register two, while register one and all fuel pumps appeared to be free of...
By ALEXA LEWIS
On a late summer afternoon, as the sun begins to grow heavier in the sky and commuters make their ways home from long days at work, they may notice a few unique classic cars whizzing by them. For the drivers of these cars, the day is only beginning,...
By ALEXA LEWIS
SOUTHAMPTON — Walking through the historic doors of Southampton’s former Edwards Library, one will still find the walls lined with books, the smells of ink and paper thick in the air. But it’s been decades since the building, built in 1904, was used...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON— Dozens of spectators filed into the bright red cylinder of the motordrome, eager to see what daredevil Hobo Bill calls “the greatest show on wood” on Labor Day, the final day of the Three County Fair. Children and adults looked on with...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — Derelict, frequently flooded, and packed with equipment, the Parks and Recreation Department’s maintenance building and storage sheds at Nonotuck Park have raised some eyebrows as they’ve continued to fall into disrepair. But over the...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — By this Sunday, tenants of One Cottage Street must decide to either sign a new lease at $15 per square foot or give written notice of their departure. For William Hewitt, who has made cabinetry and furniture in his studio there for 44...
By ALEXA LEWIS
Easthampton’s Old Town Hall has once again opened its doors to a diverse assortment of local artistic talent as part of CitySpace’s 2024 Pay it Forward program. As summer winds to a close, the 10 artists and groups selected to this year’s cohort are...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — School may be starting, but a heaping dose of summer fun is still waiting around the corner as the Three County Fair prepares to return for its 207th year on Friday. Bringing food, fun and Ferris wheel rides to the Valley once more, the...
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