Four elementary school principals hired to fill vacancies
When West Side students return for the 2024-25 school year at four elementary schools they will find some new faces in principals’ offices.
Talk will focus on area’s tobacco agriculture history
AGAWAM — As a 14-year-old growing up in Windsor, Connecticut, during the 1950s, Duane Adams earned 61 cents per hour working on tobacco farms. In college and in in the Army, he had difficultly convincing people that tobacco was grown in the Connecticut River Valley.
‘Phenomenal’ NNO exceeds expectations with large crowd
AGAWAM — Loren Forastiere Kastner has been coming to Agawam’s National Night Out (NNO) since the town’s police department organized the first one in 2013. She’s never disappointed.
Fun day of golf raises funds to help unwanted farm animals
Ian Ireland was one of 60 golfers who hit the links in Feeding Hills to benefit a sanctuary for unwanted animals in Westfield.
Touch-a-Truck to benefit pantry, first-time bus riders
AGAWAM — Trucks, trucks and more trucks will be in the parking lot at the Bethany Assembly of God on Saturday, Aug. 10. It may seem like an odd sight to see at a church, but the trucks will be there as part of free event to benefit its food pantry.