by Amy Porter | Mar 28, 2024 | Hampden County, Hilltowns, Local News
CHESTER — Students in Chester Elementary School spent part of February and March tapping maple trees on school property and making maple syrup over a wood fire from the sap they collected. “We tapped the trees right on the school property, some on the front property...
by Amy Porter | Mar 21, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, Westfield
WESTFIELD — On March 13, Southampton Road Elementary School students from preschool to fourth grade participated in an obstacle course of the circulatory system, as part of the American Heart Association’s Kids Heart Challenge. Southampton Road Elementary School...
by Amy Porter | Mar 21, 2024 | Hilltowns, Local News
HUNTINGTON — Gateway Regional School District administrators and teachers, who visited schools around the country during the “dream” phase of the Barr Foundation grant, related some of the programs that impressed them during a professional development day for staff on...
by Amy Porter | Mar 21, 2024 | Hilltowns, Local News
BLANDFORD — On the Special Town Meeting warrant of March 18 was a vote to move forward with a grant application for an expansion of the Porter Memorial Library, a step that library director Nicole Daviau said the town has been waiting for five years to take. “Every...
by Amy Porter | Mar 14, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, Westfield
WESTFIELD — This year’s Sons of Erin float for the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade on March 17 is based on “The Unicorn,” a song by Shel Silverstein, made popular by the Irish Rovers. The float, on which this year’s colleen Sydney Drugan and her court of Grace Hanna,...
