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False claims that vaccines can cause infertility are discouraging Americans from receiving the shots and leaving doctors to persuade patients that what they have read online is unfounded.
American Rescue Plan showers Pioneer Valley colleges with millions
Published: 5/13/2021 7:54:35 PM
HOLYOKE Area colleges and universities in Hampshire County and Holyoke are in line to receive millions of dollars in emergency funding from the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill signed into law in early March.
Holyoke Community College will receive $13.3 million in funding, while Mount Holyoke was allocated $3.9 million to address the financial impacts of COVID-19 on students and institutions. U.S. Rep. Richard Neal announced the funding as part of a total of almost $90 million in assistance to 13 western Massachusetts colleges and universities in the 1st Congressional District on Monday.
Bonding over bees
Honey bees fly in and out of an opening at the bottom of a hive belonging to Jeff Blomstedt s hive of Gill. For the Recorder/Gillis MacDougall
Jeff Blomstedt keeps three hives at his Gill home, and several others at a nearby farm. For the Recorder/Gillis MacDougall
A hive tool enables Jeff Blomstedt to lift frames from a super. For the Recorder/Gillis MacDougall
Several tools are invaluable to a beekeeper. Jeff Blomstedt is shown holding his smoker and hive tool while wearing rubber gloves.
Susan LaScala grows pollinator-friendly plants at her Gill home to help attract bees for her husband s beekeeping project. For the Recorder/Gillis MacDougall
Rosabella Daraoui, Co-Valedictorian
Rosabella is the daughter of George and Mona Daraoui of Rochester, New Hampshire. She is the younger sister of Karen, 21, and Jennifer, 19, both of whom are graduates of St. Thomas Aquinas High School. She is also the proud older sister of Charbel, 10. Rosabella attended middle school at St. Elizabeth Seton School and is a parishioner of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish in Rochester.
Rosabella is a member of the National Honor Society and the French Honor Society. While at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, she earned the Yale Book Award and the English Department Award (junior year), the Math Department Award (sophomore year), the French Department Award and Le Grand Concours Bronze Award (freshman year), and Le Grand Concours Honorable Mention (sophomore, junior, and senior years).