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Two harvests, one field: Hadley farm shows off agrivoltaics as other growers take interest
HADLEY — Freshly picked ears of sweet corn, taken off corn stalks growing below solar panels in a North Hadley field, are placed in a container and ready to be boiled, with the water heated by power…
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4mHonoring a grandmother's legacy: A $50M anonymous donation funds 'Betty's Kitchen' at Amherst College
AMHERST — An anonymous $50 million gift to Amherst College will name the main dining area inside the new Ford Student Center on campus as Betty’s Kitchen. A few months after the college received a separate $50 million donation from William “Bill” Ford, a member of the Class of 1983, his wife, Molly Ford, and […]
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2mGombo Nola Kitchen & Oyster Bar in Northampton to reopen Wednesday after minor fire
NORTHAMPTON — A Friday afternoon grill fire forced Gombo Nola Kitchen & Oyster Bar to close through the weekend, costing the restaurant about $15,000 in lost revenue before its planned Wednesday reopening. Co-owner Cassidy Bowman said that the restaurant lost merchandise in the fire and was forced to shut off its gas service and close […]
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5mPoll shows Massachusetts voters behind most ballot questions
A recent UMass/WCVB poll indicates that Massachusetts voters favor expanding public records access but oppose repealing recreational marijuana legalization ahead of the November ballot.
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5mHadley town administrator: Capital planning needs more consistency, funding to maintain services
HADLEY — Growing the tax base and increasing the water and sewer rates may be necessary to ensure Hadley’s capital plan can adequately maintain municipal services, buildings and assets, according to Town Administrator Nate Malloy. At a Bi Board meeting of the Select Board and Finance Committee last Wednesday, Malloy said the capital plan is […]
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Guest columnist Sarena Neyman: How riding the subway as a kid changed how I see the world
It was 1974. The Bronx was burning. Abandoned cars littered the streets, and New York City teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. I’m still surprised my overprotective Holocaust-survivor parents let their preteen daughter ride the subway to school every day, but somehow they did. For five years — from eighth grade through high school — […]