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$375K grant to fund Amherst health improvement plan centered on immigrant, marginalized groups
AMHERST — Food security and mental health, especially among immigrant families and other marginalized groups, will be a focus of a new community-wide health plan. The three-year initiative, known as…
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5mArea Briefs: GCC event offers quick look at ballot questions
GCC event offers quick look at ballot questions GREENFIELD — Voters can get a rapid-fire rundown of all nine statewide ballot questions at a “speed dating” event Thursday at Greenfield Community College. “Speed Dating With the MA Ballot Questions,” co-hosted by GCC and the League of Women Voters Franklin County, runs from 6:30 to 8 […]
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5mHopkins Academy heating, cooling fix to wait until spring Town Meeting
HADLEY — Three options for improving the heating and cooling system at Hopkins Academy, each of which would cost the town at least $6 million, will not be considered by voters until annual Town Meeting next spring. At a joint meeting with the Finance Committee, the Capital Planning Committee voted in late September not to […]
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5mSpeaking of Nature: The common raven: the great scrounger
It was a gorgeous Sunday morning, and I was sitting at the edge of my meadow, slightly questioning my own sanity. The sun had not yet made an appearance, the temperature was only 41 degrees Fahrenheit, and my feet were damp after walking through the dew-covered grass. Up the hill the house was warm, but […]
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5mInterpol crackdown on illegal mining, logging and wildlife trafficking leads to 233 arrests
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An international crackdown on environmental crime across Latin America and the Caribbean led to 233 arrests and uncovered links between large-scale Amazon deforestation and companies across several continents, the international police organization Interpol said Wednesday. The two-month operation targeted illegal logging, gold mining and wildlife trafficking across nine countries, identifying some […]
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3mFrank R. Hugus II
<html><head></head><body>Frank R. Hugus II<br /><br />Amherst, MA - Frank Richard Hugus II passed away on September 21, 2026. He was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania to Dorothy A. Kelsey and Frank R. Hugus I in 1941.<br /><br />He earned his doctorate i ...