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Healey eyes winter energy relief as affordability bill remains stalled
BOSTON — Without signals that legislative negotiators are close to agreement on a long-debated energy affordability bill and as some Bay State households get ready to turn the heat back on, Gov.…
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4mNew noise study supports Hadley battery energy storage project
HADLEY — Hadley planners are close to giving approval to a stand-alone battery energy storage system on Breckenridge Road following a consultant’s assurances that noise from the project will be in compliance with state law. At the Sept. 15 continuation of a hearing for ZP Battery Devco’s plans for the 5-megawatt system, to be located […]
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6mOld Belchertown school reborn as Pathfinder Tech satellite campus
BELCHERTOWN — The Cold Spring School campus is smaller than Theodore Nadeau remembers. The Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School student from Belchertown can vividly picture his former Cold Spring Elementary School classroom. He points around the area, recalling the layout of tables and benches, the nap corner and the administrative area he never dared […]
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5mAll in the family: Dunphys reunite in Williamsburg after 111 years
WILLIAMSBURG — The last name Dunphy is iconic in Williamsburg and remains honored, plastered on the front door of the Anne T. Dunphy School. For just a brief moment when the new school was going up, there was discussion to change its namesake, but the community said absolutely not. Descendants of the Dunphys haven’t had […]
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7mArea Briefs: Drive-through flu clinic Saturday in Easthampton
Drive-through flu clinic Saturday EASTHAMPTON — The Easthampton Health Department and Fire Department, in partnership with Northampton’s shared services nursing team, will hold an annual free drive-thru flu vaccine clinic Saturday, Sept. 26, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Public Safety Complex, 32 Payson Ave. Flu vaccines are free and open to anyone […]
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3mBoston Tea Party veteran to be honored with special marker in Hadley
HADLEY — On Dec. 16, 1773, Jeremiah Cady, 21, a Shutesbury resident, was invited to a meeting at the Old South Meeting House in Boston, where he joined in the destruction of 342 chests of tea. Involved in the Boston Tea Party, one of the precipitating events for the Revolutionary War that began in 1775, […]