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GRANBY — Nearly 15 months after the town approved $5.6 million to renovate the former West Street School into municipal offices and a senior center, the committee in charge of the project is proposing a $14.4 million restoration that would require passage of a Proposition 2½ override.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Belchertown is the most recent community to endorse the completion of the 104-mile Mass Central Rail Trail that runs through 26 communities across the state.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Select Board is contemplating raising fees for trash and recycling over the next two fiscal years, a decision that if approved would come on the heels of a $100 increase this fiscal year to fund implementation costs for a new automated, cart-based trash system.

By EMILEE KLEIN

Fifth grader Hattie Griffin rubs the soft, thin tree trunk with one piece of sandpaper before switching to a different piece with a softer grit, hoping to make her already-velvety broom handle even smoother. 

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Window World of Western Massachusetts has a long history of providing quality windows and doors, but the business only provides one piece in the whole picture of home improvement — until now.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — After three years of discussion and fundraising, Plains Elementary School will officially change its name to Henry J. Skala School to honor of the school’s late principal.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Coming off a year of regional and national honors in baton twirling, the Belchertown Twirlers started their competition season strong when two members earned first and second place in the Pre-teen Miss Majorette of Massachusetts Pageant.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Four years after an online petition garnered more than 5,200 signatures in favor of Massachusetts returning 430 acres of state-owned land in Belchertown known as the Lampson Brook Farm to the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band, a new House bill proposes giving the tribe authorization to steward a majority of the farm and forestland.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Naomi Wood arrived at Plains Elementary School to pick up her 6-year-old son, Hunter Isaiah Wood, when she noticed him stumbling across the playground, eyes crossed.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Dispatcher Jay Rodriguez arrived to his shift at South Hadley’s Emergency 911 Center early — as he always does — when he heard a caller screaming at his co-worker, threatening to harm himself and any responding officers with his firearm.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — The School Committee is pushing back against a potential $2.1 million cut to its proposed $36 million level-services school budget that would result in the loss of more than 20 positions, a blow to the schools after the committee’s proposed budgets have been cut $4 million in the past five years.

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.

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.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — The Select Board has offered Michael Durham the position as Granby’s new town administrator after its first choice, Shelley Poreda, turned the job down.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SPRINGFIELD — Most Massachusetts farmworkers whose hard work puts food on the dinner tables for Massachusetts families have difficulty affording the produce they pick and process.

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant and Bar closed on Thursday amid a rumor that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had raided and detained five employees the previous evening.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — The “Doomsday Clock” is moving forward.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Nothing could knock down Claudia Quintero on the day she received her green card and work permit at 17 years old — she was too elated to notice anything else.

By EMILEE KLEIN

A $12.6 million grant will build out broadband internet for almost 100 underserviced communities across the state, including customers in nine Hampshire and Franklin cities and towns.

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.