by Mike Lydick | Apr 25, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, Westfield
WESTFIELD — The Episcopal Church of the Atonement celebrated Earth Day 2024 by hosting a tree planting ceremony. Two new trees were planted to replace a cooper beech tree that once grew in front of the church but was cut down in January due to disease and decay.
by Miasha Lee | Apr 25, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, Westfield
WESTFIELD — Run Westfield will kick off this year’s Flat Fast 5K Run and Walk at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 4. The race starts at Westfield State University’s south parking lot and dashes down Western Avenue and Court Street to Elm Street in downtown Westfield. In addition...
by Cliff Clark | Apr 25, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, Southwick
SOUTHWICK — A new nonprofit organization will raise money from private donors to purchase land in town, protecting it from development. Maryssa Cook-Obregon, president of the Southwick Land Trust, says her group has nine members so far and is soliciting for new ones....
by Cliff Clark | Apr 25, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, Southwick
SOUTHWICK — After an hour of listening to property owners and hunters opposed to a proposed bylaw that would require hunters to ask permission from private property owners before stepping on their land, the Select Board on April 16 informally decided to remove the...
by Tyler Lederer | Apr 25, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, West Springfield
WEST SPRINGFIELD — After 10 years of running an ice cream catering truck, Mehmet Sarikcioglu has opened his own shop. West Side Creamy Cones is serving soft serve, sandwiches, sundaes and more at a Union Street storefront.
by Mike Lydick | Apr 25, 2024 | Agawam, Hampden County, Local News
AGAWAM — For the first time in nearly a decade, the high school’s Rosie Robotics team recently competed at the FIRST Robotics Competition’s New England regional district championship.