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Chesterfield finalizes battery storage bylaw
CHESTERFIELD — In an empty meeting room at town offices, the Planning Board burned the midnight oil Monday night as they finalized a battery energy storage system, or Bess, bylaw that will be taken…
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6mPrivate wells get added safeguards in Amherst
AMHERST — Private wells will get the same protections as public drinking water supplies from construction of solar arrays and installation of battery energy storage systems in Amherst’s bylaw that facilitates development of clean energy projects. Despite concerns from members of both the Town Council and Planning Board that offering 200-foot no-disturbance zones for all […]
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2mDriver escapes serious injury in one-car rollover crash
WESTHAMPTON — A driver received minor injuries in a one-car rollover crash at the intersection of North and Chesterfield roads on Tuesday at around 10:15 a.m. The woman was the only occupant of the vehicle, a Ford Explorer, traveling northbound on Chesterfield Road, according to Westhampton Deputy Fire Chief John Bridgman. The driver sustained minor […]
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6m‘Hillywood Award’ to shine spotlight on female filmmakers at Ashfield FilmFest
Ashfield Town Hall will host the Ashfield FilmFest this weekend, featuring a Friday documentary screening and panel, followed by a Saturday short film competition with various awards, including the new Hillywood Award.
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Guest columnist Jonathan Kahane: I'm a loser
I can just hear my “friends” — and many others for that matter — saying, “Finally, it took him 81 years to recognize what we’ve all known for a very long time, and have often told him so to his face.” Even my kids have intimated it in not very delicate terminology at times. Others […]
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3mDenise Rochat
<html><head></head><body>Denise Rochat<br /><br />Northampton , MA - Denise Rochat, 77, a longtime Northampton resident and professor emerita of French Studies at Smith College, died peacefully in Grafton, Vermont, on September 11, 2026, after an unex ...