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Father, son led Agawam Brownies to victories 30 years apart

By | Aug 28, 2024

Father, son led Agawam Brownies to victories 30 years apart

AGAWAM — As the Brownies prepare to celebrate 100 years of Agawam High School’s rich football history, they can learn about two eras by listening to one family. Charles Benoit, a 1932 graduate, and his son, Richard “Dick” Benoit, a 1963 graduate, were both among the program’s standout players.


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By | Aug 28, 2024

New school year brings new bus tracker for Agawam

AGAWAM — The summer break is over for students and staff in Agawam. When they return to school for the 2024-25 school year there will a number of changes. Some of those changes will also affect parents and caregivers. The first day of school in Agawam for students...

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Club fosters friendships with shared passion for Model A

By | Aug 21, 2024

Club fosters friendships with shared passion for Model A

Model A clubs, like the Connecticut Valley Working A’s in Southwick, help ensure that the nearly 100-year-old cars will live on. Dedicated to helping club members restore and maintain their cars, the club is one of 270 local chapters of the national Model A Ford Club of America, and also is affiliated with the Model “A” Restorers Club.


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Six Flags to build steampunk-themed coaster opening in 2025

By | Aug 21, 2024

Six Flags to build steampunk-themed coaster opening in 2025

The park announced its newest attraction, a straddle coaster called “Quantum Accelerator,” park president Pete Carmichael compared it to “Pandemonium,” a steel spinning coaster with a max speed of 31 miles per hour. Both “Pandemonium” and the new coaster, he said, are thrill rides the whole family could experience together.


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Talk will focus on area’s tobacco agriculture history

By | Aug 13, 2024

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.


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By | Aug 13, 2024

Agawam to consider stormwater fee, study Pine-Barry intersection

AGAWAM — At the City Council’s Aug. 5 meeting, Mayor Christopher Johnson alluded to the idea of adopting a stormwater fee, something he said the town has been considering for the past six to eight years.


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By | Aug 13, 2024

Mayor Johnson gives updates to projects delay, progress

AGAWAM — At the City Council’s Aug. 5 meeting, Mayor Christopher Johnson announced delays to the completion of the police station and Still Brook Park, as well as an indefinite delay to the start of the May Hollow culvert replacement project.


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‘Phenomenal’ NNO exceeds expectations with large crowd

By | Aug 13, 2024

‘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.


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