Daily Hampshire Gazette
Guest columnist Richard Szlosek: Samuel and Eli
How Slater’s mills and Whitney’s cotton gin transformed U.S. industry and agriculture, fueling cotton expansion, slavery’s growth, and eventual sectional conflict leading to the Civil War.
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4mGazette All-Stars: Boys Volleyball
The Daily Hampshire Gazette sports department will be unveiling All-Stars that are comprised of Hampshire County athletes for the spring sports, starting with boys volleyball. Regular-season play and postseason performances were taken under consideration when putting together All-Stars. Each sport will also include several honorable mentions, for athletes that fell just short of All-Star consideration. […]
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5mNorthampton Housing Authority names Sharon Kimble as permanent executive director
NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Housing Authority (NHA) voted 5-1 to appoint the agency’s acting executive director Sharon Kimble to a permanent role, pending successful contract negotiations, at a meeting held virtually Thursday evening. The vote came only three days after the NHA’s Board of Commissioners interviewed four candidates — Kimble, Kathleen Povar, Andrew Skoog, Maryrose […]