AGAWAM — Residents and town officials got a look at the latest designs for the new Agawam High School at a public meeting on Nov. 20. Agawam Mayor Christopher Johnson, who also serves as the chair of the Agawam High School Building Committee, highlighted the state-of-the-art features, while emphasizing that decisions were made based on the lessons other schools learned in their school builds.
CHESTER — On Nov. 22, David Pierce, president of the Chester Foundation, brought the Chester Railway Station and its history, in the form of a G Scale train set, to Chester Elementary School.
SOUTHWICK — Nearly three years after being approved by the town’s Planning Board, ground will soon be broken on the proposed 100-unit condominium project at 42 Depot St.
SOUTHWICK — The Select Board agreed during its Nov. 25 meeting to schedule a Special Town Meeting sometime in January to have residents to decide on a request by the Community Preservation Committee to allocate $164,000 of its funds to allow the Historical Society to purchase a piece of property on College Highway.
WESTFIELD — The city’s newest business, Comfort Bagels, began in the kitchen of its Founder/owner Janet Blake during the coronavirus pandemic, when she, like millions of others, started baking bread to fill those empty days during the pandemic lockdown.
WESTFIELD — WMCD Inc., a youth-based nonprofit that raises money for local charities is hosting its third annual Pancake Breakfast on Dec. 7.