Daily Hampshire Gazette
Chance 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…
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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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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 […]
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4mBruce Kickery
<html><head></head><body>Bruce Kickery<br /><br />Northampton, MA - Bruce Edward Kickery of Northampton passed away on July 6, 2026 after a short decline. Kickery was born in Pittsfield on December 2, 1942 "Number 8" of 22. and is survived b ...
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4mJoan Bartlett
<html><head></head><body>JOAN BARTLETT<br /><br />Melbourne Beach, FL - Joan E. Bartlett, 75, of Melbourne Beach, Florida, formerly of Hatfield, Massachusetts, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on August 19, 2026.<br /><br />Joan ...