Easthampton approves 18-month moratorium on data centers

Valley Bounty: Bringing back the chestnut

By reviving a historical crop, one farmer has a plan to feed the community while stewarding the land into the future. Jono Neiger is trained as an ecologist and conservation biologist, who approaches farming from an ecological perspective. For him, the relationships between the land, the abutting river, and the plant species create the farm, […]

Hadley 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 […]

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 heavily traveled road to receive repairs. The town announced this week that Warner Brothers Inc., of Sunderland, will handle the work at a […]

Hilltown 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 […]

South 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 […]