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By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A $20.5 million development in North Amherst featuring 30 affordable homes, each of which will be owned by families, is getting another influx of money from the town, a commitment that should ensure ground can be broken next spring.The...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — Educators who work with the most vulnerable students in the Hadley public schools are getting a pay increase as the result of recently completed mid-contract negotiations between the Hadley Education Association and school and town...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
Member institutions of Museums10, a consortium of 10 museums located across the Pioneer Valley, are investing more than $600,000 into professional training development for staff members and student interns to promote career advancement in the museum...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Amherst, South Hadley and Holyoke are each getting more than $1 million grants from the state’s Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness program to replace culverts, improve water quality and make the communities more resilient to floods.In...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — With a pause in plans to rebuild the aging bathhouse at War Memorial Pool, and discussions beginning about whether the town needs two full-size outdoor swimming pools during the summer, Amherst Recreation officials say having both facilities...
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY — Closure for Matthew Dale meant giving his mother her name back — and he did just that last Thursday in a quiet ceremony at the West Street Cemetery.In 1978, Dale’s mother went missing when he was 5 years old. His family reported her...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A University of Massachusetts union representing 1,500 campus employees is calling out the administration for “authoritarian” actions and cracking down on free speech after learning that two student leaders of the Students for Justice in...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Abandoning plans to expand and renovate the Jones Library would necessitate pursuing a backup project that would be more costly and would take longer to modernize the Amity Street building, while leaving the library without needed amenities...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The chance for kids to touch a truck, car seat inspections and K9 demonstrations will be part of the town’s third Community Safety Day on Saturday, one of a number of activities happening around Amherst over the course of the morning,...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — An Army medic in the Vietnam War who earned a Purple Heart, Hadley resident Bob O’Neil returned home more than 50 years ago with no fanfare or community celebration recognizing his service.As with fellow resident, veteran and Purple Heart...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
AMHERST — On the 10th floor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center, Samuel Noel, a welder by trade, works as a dishwasher — his first job in the United States.Noel, a Haitian immigrant who moved to Greenfield’s Days Inn shelter on...
By ALEXA LEWIS
Michael Haynack is alive today because of what he calls a “cascade of miracles.”The first of those miracles was the presence of his longtime friend Frank Grindrod when an unexpected heart attack threatened his life. The second, and perhaps most...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — At a time when the Amherst Rotary Club didn’t allow women in its ranks, based on Rotary International’s policy, and the Amherst Jaycees did admit women even though it was in conflict with the junior chamber’s rules, the Amherst Club became a...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Planning Director Christine Brestrup, who has helped guide housing and commercial developments and improvements to municipal parks, and spearheaded a project to install signs so visitors can better find their way around town, is retiring...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A proposed expansion of a farmhouse at 180 North Whitney St. creating a non-owner-occupied duplex will not move forward after the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals nixed the project, citing potential dangers to pedestrians from adding more...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — After several years of preparation, preliminary construction on the Leary Lot is beginning, marking the start of the first major project in South Deerfield’s revitalization plan.With an expected completion date of early October, the...
By EMILEE KLEIN
BELCHERTOWN — Before police officers began their patrols on July 19, each officer clipped on one of the 23 fully charged body cameras sitting on a docking station, officially launching the department’s body-worn camera program that aims to improve...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Another $800,000 in Community Preservation Act money is being recommended by Amherst officials so the $4.41 million plan to rebuild and reorient the Amherst Regional High School’s track and its interior field can proceed.While Amherst’s...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A recent visit to Brookfield Farm gave Bronx, New York teens Emily Robinson and Royale Cash Panchoo an opportunity to see baby pigs, pick blueberries and make flower bouquets, one of their several excursions around town and the region while...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Faculty members at Hampshire College say that overspending by college leaders, rather than student enrollment projections falling short, is what led to decisions by the administration to cut employee retirement benefits. They also contend...
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