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Chipping away at the backlog: Amherst to resurface 23 roads
AMHERST — Resurfacing work on 23 roads and streets begins later this month, with a portion of North Pleasant Street between downtown Amherst and the University of Massachusetts campus being the most…
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5mEasthampton approves 18-month moratorium on data centers
EASTHAMPTON — Easthampton is the latest Valley community to temporarily ban new data centers, as the facilities face growing scrutiny across the country and municipalities grapple with how to regulate them. The City Council on Wednesday night passed the moratorium, barring new data center construction for 18 months while the city develops permanent regulations. The […]
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4mHadley affordable housing project at former Econo Lodge adds ground-mounted solar array
HADLEY — Valley Community Development will install ground-mounted solar arrays as part of its project converting the former EconoLodge into 50 units of affordable housing. The Planning Board Tuesday began its administrative review of the 29-kilowatt system that will be located at the back of the site, on a slope between the building and existing […]
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4mHilltown Community Health Center staff honored with Florence Bates Excellence Awards
NORTHAMPTON — Three staff members for the Hilltown Community Health Center are being honored by their peers for their work in the healthcare field. The health group presented the first Florence Bates Excellence Awards at a celebration at the Florence Civic Center Friday, nearly coinciding with the 76th anniversary of the Oct. 3, 1950, founding […]
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5mSouth Hadley grandmother’s Citrus Sky Boutique aims to fill gap in fashionable children’s clothes
SOUTH HADLEY — Chic children’s clothes are difficult to find in the Pioneer Valley. It’s a complaint Marie Mesheau heard her daughters and daughters-in-law discuss when she became a grandmother. The department store selection of dinosaur T-shirts and muted basics was unsatisfactory, even ugly, the women said. The modern mothers wanted to see their sense […]
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7mArea Property Deed Transfers, Oct. 9
AMHERST Ellen Snyder and Mark Snyder to Biodynamic Farmland Conserva, Bay Road, $250,000 James H David 2018 T and James D. David to Kwan Lee and Hea Lee, 229-261 Belchertown Road, $585,000 Frances E. Adams to Timothy Hart and Ximena A. Gomez, 23 Echo Hill Road, $565,000 Richard O’Rourke to Bruce J. Niemczyk and Gretchen […]