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Talk will focus on area’s tobacco agriculture history
AGAWAM — As a 14-year-old growing up in Windsor, Connecticut, during the 1950s, Duane Adams earned 61 cents per hour working on tobacco farms. In college and in in the Army, he had difficultly convincing people that tobacco was grown in the Connecticut River Valley. Today, the retired high...
Stallions Top Tier western showcase: These offensive players put on a show
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Last month, the Piatelli Lacrosse Club announced that it will be partnering with Top Tier Lacrosse. A few weeks after that announcement, Piatelli rebranded their boys club teams to the Stallions. In between those announcements, both parties hosted a showcase on the campus of Springfield College.
West Springfield Boys and Girls Club hosts Eversource Day
WEST SPRINGFIELD — Sometimes, summer camp isn’t about being in the woods. Sometimes, it’s about being in a gymnasium, where Eversource employees help children put on safety vests and gloves that are much too big for them, and then have them shoot hoops. That’s what happened on...
EcoBuilding Bargains closing Springfield salvage store
SPRINGFIELD — EcoBuilding Bargains — a 23-year-old marketplace for salvaged building supplies and housing fixtures that was featured on the PBS home improvement show “This Old House” — will close. The shop is closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. A going-out of business sale offering 25%...
Live Wire: Little Feat brings ‘American rock ‘n’ roll’ to South Deerfield
Multi-instrumentalist Fred Tackett was good friends with Little Feat founder Lowell George long before George ever formed the band, but didn’t officially join the group until many years later. The problem, if you want to call it that, was that Tackett was working on retainer with famed songwriter Jimmy...
National home improvement chain to close 94 stores amid bankruptcy: Here’s where
National home improvement chain LL Flooring announced plans to close almost 100 locations, including six in New England, after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy over the weekend. The company, formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, hopes to sell its remaining locations and have started going-out-of-business sales at the 94 locations slated...
Trucking company owner pleads guilty in NH crash that killed 7 motorcyclists
The former owner of a Massachusetts trucking company pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges tied to a 2019 crash involving a company vehicle that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. Dunyadar Gasanov, also known as Damien Gasanov, and his brother Dartanayan Gasonov, ran the now-defunct Westfield Transport Inc., a...
Gov. Healey says Mass. lawmakers will return to finish key bills. But when?
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has said she has commitments from top legislative leaders to return to Beacon Hill to pass her signature economic development plan. But two weeks after lawmakers largely left town for the summer, there’s still no firm timeline on when that will happen. “What’s happening right...
7 Investigates: Texas animal rescue continued to sell dogs in Mass. without license, proper medical screening
BOSTON, MA – A Hudson family is devastated after their dog died just a few hours after being adopted from a south Texas based animal rescue. “The kids were ecstatic,” said Phil Barros. “I couldn’t tell you the last time they had this excitement in them to welcome a new puppy.”
VIDEO: State Police help rescue injured bird on I-91
HATFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - An injured hawk recently spotted on a highway in Hatfield has been rescued by a MA State Police Trooper thanks to a truck driver who reached out for help. The footage from the Trooper’s body camera and cruiser camera was released Tuesday afternoon. It starts...
Springfield Superintendent Sonia Dinnall Appointed to HCC Board of Trustees
HOLYOKE — Sonia Dinnall, the new superintendent of Springfield Public Schools, has been appointed to the Holyoke Community College (HCC) board of trustees by Gov. Maura Healey. Dinnall’s term will run until March 1, 2027. Dinnall was named superintendent of Springfield Public Schools in May and is the...
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