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By SAMUEL GELINAS
CUMMINGTON — The Rev. Stephen Philbrick’s congregation knows him as a man of stories. But the story they came to hear at a recent Sunday service was that of Philbrick himself.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
HOLYOKE — The city’s director of planning and economic development believes the time is right to invest in new wayfinding signage downtown, as part of a broader “refresh” reflecting a changing part of the city.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — “It’s back. It’s back in a big way,” says Jamie Fleming, enthusing over the swelling popularity of pinball at Progression Brewery’s monthly pinball tournament — a competition that started underground in Fleming’s basement and has found a new home above ground as the vintage arcade games trend toward a revival.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — Emergency personnel were unable to save a 4-year-old Goldendoodle that fell into the Mill River behind Federal Street shortly after noon on Tuesday, despite rescue efforts that lasted more than an hour.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
HOLYOKE — Holyoke Country Club is facing $19,000 in state fines for air pollution control and storage tank violations at its property at 2 Country Club Road.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
HOLYOKE — For the first time in the city’s 175-year history, the mayor and City Council will have power over the city’s treasurer after voters at a special election on Tuesday agreed to change the position to appointed from elected.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
CUMMINGTON — J.S. Bryant School will welcome its first student body next September in the former Cummington Inn — offering a private school setting specifically aimed at welcoming LGBTQIA+ high schoolers struggling in their current academic environment.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
PLAINFIELD — After 33 years, the town’s International-brand fire engine is being retired, making way for a 2024 Spartan.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
BOSTON — Less than three months after voters rejected a ballot measure to legalize certain natural psychedelic substances and introduce therapeutic care, legislators have filed 10 bills at the start of this legislative session hoping to push the cause forward.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
HAYDENVILLE — On Dec. 10 Angelique Britt opened her first business, Eventide Acupuncture and Integrative Health, in the Brass Works building at 132 Main St.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
AMHERST — Yamiche Alcindor’s “ah-ha” moment came when she was in high school and heard the story of Emmett Till, a Black teen from Chicago who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
HOLYOKE — Saying that serving as mayor has been the greatest honor of his life, Joshua Garcia intends to seek a second term this fall.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
WESTFIELD — Minutes after noon on Monday, repeated chants of “USA” filled East Mountain Country Club after Donald J. Trump took the oath of office, officially making him the 47th president of the United States.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
SOUTH HADLEY — As they head toward finalizing proposed rezoning regulations along the Route 202/33 corridor, town officials invited residents to weigh in on the plans at a public forum late last week, and weigh in they did, citing concerns about traffic, affordable housing, pedestrian safety and housing density.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
CHESTERFIELD — Vox, an Alaskan husky who raced with the Hilltown Sleddogs, died last Friday after a GoFundMe account raced to raise funds for surgery to remove his spleen cancer that had been uncovered just days before.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
GRANBY — For the first time in 23 years, Granby has a new town administrator after the Select Board this week unanimously agreed to appoint Shelley Poreda to the position.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
AMHERST — As visitors from throughout the country toured ServiceNet’s successful Prospect Meadow Farm in Hatfield on Monday to learn about “care farming” — a therapeutic approach that combines agriculture and health care — Shawn Robinson shared the story of an employee who was thriving while working at the 18-acre property.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
HOLYOKE – City Treasurer Rory Casey is making the case for voters ahead of a Jan. 28 special election that he should be fired.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — When he was growing up, Daniel Nye says the presence of World War II vets had been “pretty ubiquitous.” Now he says, “they seem to have disappeared.”
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — After a quarter century downtown, Ten Thousand Villages is preparing to close its Main Street store for good on March 31.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100 years old, has often been labeled exceptional, or different among his presidential peers in that his legacy is tied not so much to his politics, but his heart.
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