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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…
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5mTwo 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 […]
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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 — […]
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5mWay Finders opens applications for 60-unit affordable housing in South Hadley
SOUTH HADLEY — The longtime regional affordable housing organization Way Finders is accepting applications for a new 60-unit development in South Hadley at the site of a former Big Y grocery store not far from the routes 33 and 116 intersection. The development on Newton Street, called The Clover, is a four-story building consisting of […]
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6mChance Encounters with Bob Flaherty: Three generations and answers to long-held riddles
HADLEY — It took a scorching hot day on the bike path to unravel a mystery that’s been with you for decades. On a family trip to the Dominican Republic the same week the Red Sox signed the island’s own Pedro Martinez, out of nowhere something clicked, a thing so unexpected you surprised yourself, let […]