Way Finders opens applications for 60-unit affordable housing in South Hadley

Poll 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.

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 produced by the same photovoltaic arrays. At Joe Czajowski Farm, the corn yields from the field below the […]

Hadley 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 […]

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 — […]

Guest columnist Greg Tuleja: Pinocchios

In a children’s novel written by Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio is a wooden puppet carved by the carpenter Geppetto, who controls the puppet’s physical actions with strings. In Collodi’s story, Pinocchio acquires some human characteristics, including dishonesty, and whenever he lies, his nose grows longer. I was reminded of Pinocchio, the puppet who lies, during the recent renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Donald Trump has often said that of paramount importance in his administration is “loyalty” to him, that is, unquestioning agreement with whatever he says or does. He has surrounded himself with “puppets,” whose acts, according to a dictionary […]