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In aiming to do whatever any of us can to help the world we inhabit together, maintaining suppleness of heart and mind could be a benefit. As with keeping the body limber, this might seem effortless among the young and be of increasing difficulty as...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A process for identifying a permanent town administrator is getting underway in Hadley, with the first step likely hiring a company to oversee the search.During a Select Board meeting on Monday that also included a hearing on increasing the...

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 SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — The Planning Board will not make a recommendation to special Town Meeting this fall about a proposal to significantly expand the senior housing overlay district, to include a 30-acre property near the corner of Rocky Hill Road and North Maple...

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 SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A 38-year career as a municipal assessor will come to a close in January for Daniel H. Zdonek Jr., who has been Hadley’s assessor since July 1990.The Easthampton resident who worked for the city for four years prior to coming to Hadley...

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

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 SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — School officials are considering the installation of a high-tech tool to possibly identify anyone carrying a firearm into Hopkins Academy, though School Committee members are wary of moving forward with the idea without more information.The...

The United States is within, what? — 20,000 or 40,000 votes of electing an utterly unfit man to be president. Millions of us despise him, but no matter what happens, win or lose, we will have to make compromises along the way, no matter how righteous...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A silver sculpture, replicating a treaty between the Tibetan Empire and the Tang Dynasty in China more than 1,400 years ago, will be presented by the Regional Tibetan Association of Massachusetts to U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern on Saturday.At a...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Residents have until Nov. 15 to opt out of the town’s new trash and recycling program — which includes access to the recycling center and transfer station for yard waste — set to begin on July 1, 2025. That’s when the town officially...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — After recently acquiring an 80,000-square-foot building on Venture Way for a second campus, the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion School is seeking a 100-student increase in enrollment.Despite several parents speaking against the enrollment...

NORTHAMPTON — A Westfield man is being arraigned on manslaughter charges in Hampshire Superior Court for his role in the May death of a South Hadley woman, selling her a drug he claimed was oxycodone, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s...

When I was 10, I went with my grandmother to visit my great aunt in Silver Springs, Maryland. Her husband, my Uncle Joe, was a Marine who served during World War II and had seen some of the toughest fighting in the Pacific.He took us the visit the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A substantial increase in the cost of disposing sludge from the town’s wastewater treatment plant is prompting Hadley officials to consider hiking sewer user fees, a 10% rate increase that would come only about 18 months after the board...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — As a town committee examines the possibility of creating a new zoning district that would bring a mix of housing options and possible adaptive reuse of commercial properties, its members are pushing back on recent responses to townwide...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY— Stewart Street is a quite, family-friendly neighborhood not far from Buttery Brook Park where residents watch their children play soccer in the street from the comfort of a home their grandparents built.It’s this slice of Americana that...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Enacting a townwide 25 mph speed limit on all roads that don’t have speed limit signs will be considered by voters at a special Town Meeting in November.The Select Board Wednesday voted unanimously to support the request for the townwide...