Southwick votes like state for Biden, Trump in primary
SOUTHWICK — Joseph Biden and Donald Trump widened their leads in the presidential nomination races on March 5, and voters in both Massachusetts as a whole, and Southwick in particular, placed themselves firmly in the front-runners’ corners. Both major-party candidates...Southwick neighbors wary of proposed Dollar General
SOUTHWICK — Dollar General’s plans to open a retail outlet on College Highway faced opposition at a Feb. 27 meeting where residents said it isn’t needed. “I don’t think our town needs another dollar store,” said Pat Montagna, a resident of the Winnfield Circle...Electronic images, stories of historical canal donated to Southwick
SOUTHWICK — An amateur historian who spent 30 years researching and walking the route of the New Haven-Northampton Canal recently gifted the Southwick Historical Society a computer that contains all his research in a user-friendly format. “This is just wonderful,” Pat...Parent, petition call for schools to address racist incidents
SOUTHWICK — Students called a Black classmate the N-word and conducted a mock “slave auction” on social media, and school administrators have been too slow to root out racism at Southwick Regional School, the alleged victim’s mother, the local NAACP leader and an online petitioner all said.
Town to seek public’s thoughts on hunting permission law
SOUTHWICK — With two Select Board members saying the feedback they’ve gotten from residents about a proposed hunting bylaw was generally 50-50 for and against, the board agreed to seek public input.