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My Turn: The hidden health crisis coming to western Mass. — How the reduction in the Big Beautiful Bill will overwhelm our health care system
SNAP cuts threaten 191,446 recipients in western Massachusetts, jeopardizing chronic disease management, overwhelming rural hospitals, and increasing health care costs unless benefits are protected.
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My Turn: The ties that bind
My Dear Readers, I am replacing humor in this month’s column with some tips on how to maintain and deepen family connections. More important to me than golf, the Red Sox, Dylan, or the daily NYT Spelling Bee, family is the cornerstone of my life. And by family, I mean my wife and three grown […]
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3mApostol elected to Wendell Selectboard
Marina Apostol defeated Chris Kranz to win a seat on the Wendell Selectboard, filling the remainder of Adam Feltman's term.
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My Turn: What does the council even do?
A few recent My Turn columns presented a fractured picture of Greenfield’s current municipal government, accompanied by a fundamental misunderstanding of the current budget. Most importantly, they mischaracterized the active role the Greenfield City Council plays in managing our city’s finances. As chair of the Ways and Means Committee, tasked directly with our city’s fiduciary […]
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Columnist Joanna Buoniconti: Do I miss school?
September has fully arrived. The nights have a certain briskness that wasn’t there a few weeks ago. A certain level of sadness has settled into me upon the realization that the majority of summer is over. Because summer is the period of time that I get to leave the house the most and interact with […]
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4mJeffrey D. Clairemont
<html><head></head><body>Jeffrey D. Clairemont<br /><br />CONWAY, MA - Jeffrey D. "Puma" Clairemont, of Conway, Massachusetts, passed away on August 21, 2026, at Mercy Medical Center, just one week shy of his 70th birthday. He was born on Au ...