WESTFIELD — The Westfield Technical Academy’s Aviation Maintenance Program showed its appreciation to Mrs. Murphy’s Donuts in Southwick in a way that only it could, by offering a thank-you ride in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane to owner Shane Murphy.
WESTFIELD — Paving on the Westfield Middle School parking lot has officially begun as part of a complete redesign made possible by a climate resilience grant of $810,200 from the state Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness program and an additional $70,000 from the Westfield River Watershed Association.
SOUTHWICK — The construction of a town-owned fiber-optic network should start soon after the Select Board approved a municipal agreement with Whip City Fiber during its meeting on July 20.
SOUTHWICK — At the Select Board’s meeting on July 20, David Methe perhaps summed up the tension between public safety and individual privacy as the board discussed the police department’s potential deployment of three automatic license plate readers in town.
HOLYOKE — OneHolyoke CDC will have a new leader at the helm. Nayroby Rosa has been appointed as the next executive director, taking over for outgoing Executive Director Michael Moriarty, who served in the role since 2013.
LONGMEADOW — Residents take to the polls for the state primary and election in just a short time and the Longmeadow Select Board has set the in-person early voting dates for both, with Chair Dan Zwirko citing the right to vote as “the most sacred thing we should be advocating for.”