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Westfield State Selected to Claim 2024 MASCAC Volleyball Title
Westfield, Mass.— 2023 MASCAC Volleyball Regular Season Champions Westfield State are the preseason favorites to win the 2024 crown as voted on by the eight coaches around the league. The Owls received four first place vote to land in the top spot. In 2023, they were 7-0 to take...
Southwick panel told slightly higher rates could make fiber network profitable
SOUTHWICK — With questions raised about the financial viability of the proposed construction of a town-owned broadband network, representatives from Whip City Fiber appeared before the town’s High Speed Internet Committee last week to present several financial models the committee can use before it makes a final recommendation to the Select Board if the project should move forward.
Three vehicle crash sends five to hospital
GREENFIELD, MA (FRANKLIN COUNTY NOW) — At least six area emergency response units were on the scene of a three-vehicle crash at the intersection of Silver Street and Vernon Street in Greenfield Friday afternoon. Five individuals were transported to Baystate hospitals in Greenfield and Springfield with varying degrees of...
Plymouth closing all public parks and fields from dusk to dawn amid town’s high risk status for EEE
Starting tonight, all public parks and fields in Plymouth will be closed daily from dusk until dawn in response to the town’s high risk status for Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE.
After three public hearings, Great Barrington Board of Health approves Order to Correct for Housatonic Water Works
Great Barrington — The town’s Board of Health approved an Order to Correct for Housatonic Water Works at its public hearing on Wednesday, August 22. The hearing was the third in a series discussing and debating details about the order, with the first public hearing on August 8, and the second on August 15.
Long Awaited Return: Cliff Saunders Grabs Late Model Victory At Stafford Speedway
STAFFORD – After two years away from competition, Cliff Saunders returned full-time to the Late Model division at Stafford Speedway for the start of the 2024 season. Friday the longtime Stafford Speedway veteran made his to victory lane. Saunders, of Stafford, passed Tom Butler on lap 23 and rolled...
'Colors of Courage' at WORK_SPACE in Manchester is meant to paint a bigger picture
MANCHESTER, Connecticut — The newest exhibit at the Galleries @ WORK_SPACE in Manchester doesn’t require the artists to have actual painting or sculpting experience - they just need military experience. The exhibit called “Colors of Courage” opened on Aug. 9 and features work from 31 different military men...
Solar Farm: Project in Palmer has cows grazing under a solar canopy
PALMER — People ruminate on clean energy solutions. And at Burgundy Brook Farm in Palmer, a herd of Angus beef cattle ruminate under one possible solution. As part of its “agrivoltaic” portfolio, solar developer BlueWave hosted tours Thursday at its new, 2 megawatt solar power installation at Burgundy Brook Farm on Palmer Street. At added expense, the solar panels were built taller and sturdier allowing farmer Tom Roberts Jr. not only to graze cattle under the solar panels but also run haying equipment in the field, depending on crop rotations and his needs.
Unanimous vote to end receivership in Holyoke school system ‘not surprising’
HOLYOKE — The unanimous vote Monday night to end the school district’s receivership came as “no surprise” to members of the School Committee. “There were multiple opportunities for members to ask questions and for us to give regular updates to (the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education) about what we were proposing,” said Yadilette Rivera Colón, Ward 3 representative and chair of the local control subcommittee.
Looking for signs of fall? When to expect autumn's arrival in Massachusetts, New England
NEEDHAM, Mass. — Don't let a few acorns fool you. Fall foliage season is still at least a few weeks away for New England. The region up along the Canadian border doesn't typically see colors coming to peak until late September. Colors then progress southward through October and peak in Boston toward the end of the month.
CT’s DNC delegates applaud Buttigieg as they mull the other glass ceiling
CHICAGO — Gov. Ned Lamont lavished praise on Pete Buttigieg, the cabinet secretary inevitably described as an ascendant figure in national Democratic politics, in introducing him Thursday at a breakfast for delegates from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine. “I know there’s a journey just beginning,” Lamont said. How far or...
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