Southwick

Southwick superintendent responds to DESE report on racial bullying incidents

By Cliff Clark | Mar 10, 2025

Southwick superintendent responds to DESE report on racial bullying incidents

SOUTHWICK — Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School District Superintendent Jennifer Willard issued a statement Monday on the findings of a report issued by the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education into the three racial bullying incidents that occurred at Southwick Regional School last year.

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Southwick Select Board authorizes refile of ConComm citizens’ petition

By Cliff Clark | Mar 3, 2025

Southwick Select Board authorizes refile of ConComm citizens’ petition

SOUTHWICK — Since the town learned in early January that a citizens’ petition adopted by two consecutive Town Meetings asking the state to allow the town to elect three of the seven members of the Conservation Commission, there were questions about the next step, until Monday night.

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Southwick’s first recreational cannabis retailer to open soon

By Cliff Clark | Mar 3, 2025

Southwick’s first recreational cannabis retailer to open soon

SOUTHWICK — It was announced that Pioneer Valley Trading Co., one of two cannabis retailers chosen by the Select Board to open in town, had been approved for a provisional license from the Cannabis Control Commission, the first step needed to open.

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Eversource electric rate delays start of Southwick’s aggregation program

By Cliff Clark | Mar 3, 2025

Eversource electric rate delays start of Southwick’s aggregation program

SOUTHWICK — It will be a few more months before the town will open enrollment for the town’s municipal aggregation program because of an unexpected dip in the rate Eversource is currently charging its electricity customers.

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Southwick Regional to perform ‘Anastasia’ March 14-16

By Hope Murray Tremblay | Mar 3, 2025

Southwick Regional to perform ‘Anastasia’ March 14-16

SOUTHWICK — Southwick Regional School will perform “Anastastia” from March 14-16 at the school.

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By Cliff Clark | Feb 25, 2025

Developer of Southwick self-storage facility withdraws special permit request

SOUTHWICK — The Southampton couple who proposed building a nearly 60,000-square-foot self-storage facility on College Highway has withdrawn its request for a special permit from the Planning Board essentially putting the project on ice for the foreseeable future.

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Local business adopts a shelf at Our Community Food Pantry

By Cliff Clark | Feb 25, 2025

Local business adopts a shelf at Our Community Food Pantry

SOUTHWICK — Joe Liberti is on a mission to give back, and with his close relationship with the Our Community Food Pantry and knowing about its Adopt-A-Shelf program, he decided to teach one of his children the importance caring for their fellow man.