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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...

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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,”...

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BELCHERTOWN — The town’s Board of Health will vote to draft a generational nicotine sales ban on Wednesday, preventing anyone born after Jan 1, 2004 from ever purchasing tobacco products in town.Board members, along with Director of Public Health...

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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...

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SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal knows his accomplishments speak for themselves.As the former chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means and current ranking member, Neal helped pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment and...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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,”...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...