by Doc Pruyne | Feb 27, 2024 | Franklin County, Local News
LEVERETT — An 8-foot tall metal and wood birthday cake travels from party to party, town to town, as municipalities celebrate an anniversary. That cake now sits in Leverett. The long wait is over. Leverett’s 250th birthday party begins March 2 with maple...
by Doc Pruyne | Feb 27, 2024 | Hadley, Hampshire County, Local News
HADLEY — Jen Matoney experienced the devastations of suicide. The co-chair of the Pioneer Valley Coalition for Suicide Prevention lost her mother to suicide in 2007, a life altering shock.“It’s grief that I always carry with me,” Matoney said....
by Doc Pruyne | Feb 27, 2024 | Hampshire County, Local News
WESTHAMPTON — A subcommittee of the five local districts of the Hampshire Regional School District met with Liz Lafond, a field director for the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, to prepare the public advertisement for a new superintendent.A...
by Doc Pruyne | Feb 20, 2024 | Franklin County, Local News
WHATELY — The need for a new town administrator was announced on the town’s website on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. That may be a subtle signal that town officials want someone they like as much as Brian Domina.Domina, the current administrator, will...
by Doc Pruyne | Feb 19, 2024 | Hampshire County, Local News
PELHAM — Last summer, Karen Smith of the Council on Aging suggested to Selectboard member Tara Loomis that, because seniors have few places to walk in town, a walking path behind the Rhodes Building and the school would be very popular. Seven months later, the...