Daily Hampshire Gazette
Farmworkers hope pay bill emerges in late-session legislative harvest
Farmworkers are hoping lawmakers will advance legislation that raises their pay almost 50% to match the state minimum wage and grants them overtime.
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10mDeaton lays out strategy while Markey, Moulton slug it out
Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton outlined a strategy to win in Massachusetts by targeting moderate Democrats, unenrolled voters and college-educated women while relying on a projected Democratic primary victory by Ed Markey over Seth Moulton.
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6mGuest columnist Jon Huer: So you are now a property owner!
We are now “property owners”: After 25 years of military housing, we finally bought a house in Greenfield upon our retirement. Even as one of the 99-percent wage earners who survive on daily labor, we “own” a few things and claim our “ownership” over them with legal entitlement: Commonly, a house, an automobile, a cellphone, […]
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1mPolice apprehend suspect in stabbing in Northampton's Pulaski Park on Saturday
NORTHAMPTON — A portion of downtown’s Pulaski Park was cordoned off Saturday while police investigated a stabbing, according to Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra. Police apprehended a suspect in the stabbing, and the victim was transported to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening, the mayor said in a statement. […]
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6m‘Give us more of that socialism’: Markey, Warren rally Democrats in Holyoke
HOLYOKE — As President Donald Trump derides the growing influence of socialism within the Democratic Party, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and Sen. Elizabeth Warren did not shy away from the word early Saturday morning in Holyoke. Instead, they fully embraced it. “Give us more of that socialism,” was Markey’s mantra as he spoke before a […]
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4mBelchertown High field recovers thanks to recent rainstorms, can be used this fall
BELCHERTOWN — The wet weather of the last couple weeks was the Hail Mary Belchertown High School sports needed to save the field for the upcoming sports season. A month after announcing that the field would close for at least the fall season due to water restrictions, Superintendent Brian Cameron told the School Committee earlier […]