Granby officials back $1.1M extension of West Street town offices renovation

Hadley dike and levee repairs remain a priority for Comerford

HADLEY — Getting funding for repairs to the dike and levee system along the Connecticut River, which protects Hadley center and a portion of Route 9, remains a priority for Sen. Jo Comeford, D-Northampton. Yet both a $60 million bond authorization in the environmental bond bill, to cover some costs of this work, has not […]

Greenfield Community College lauded for clean energy workforce development

Greenfield Community College received the 2026 Clean Energy Workforce Development Champion Award from the Alliance for Climate Transition for its initiatives in preparing students for careers in the clean energy sector.

Around and About with Richard McCarthy: Grit and glory on the sidewalk

I was driving around and about on a recent morning, stopped in a line of cars at a construction site, and I saw a guy walking toward me on the sidewalk. Though it wasn’t a hot morning, the long-sleeved gray T-shirt he was wearing was soaked through with sweat, as if he’d been running hard, […]

Valley Bounty: Upinngil started with sheep, bees and leeks. Then, the 'barnyard theory of inevitability' took over

“I’ve probably tried every single thing there is to do in agriculture,” says Clifford Hatch, co-owner of Upinngil in Gill. It’s true: Upinngil is an unusually diverse operation. Clifford, his daughter Sorrel Hatch, and their team of employees and family members grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including specialty crops like mushrooms and […]

On the Run with John Stifler: After New York, a cornucopia of local races

If you remember the 1970s, when the New York Marathon evolved from a bunch of laps around Central Park to a parade of thousands of runners through all five boroughs of the city, you may have felt an echo last Sunday. I mean the echo from 1978, when the women’s winner was a young Scandinavian who had never run a marathon before. Grete Waitz, from Norway, barely known in the U.S. but known in track circles as the European 3000 meter champion, won in two hours 32 minutes 30 seconds, a women’s marathon world record. So here, last Sunday, was Andreas […]