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PELHAM — The town’s Community Preservation Committee has rejected a $53,380 funding request to go toward a $4.7 million project at Amherst Regional High School that would rebuild and reorient the track, and put an artificial turf field inside it.The...

PELHAM — The town’s Community Preservation Committee has rejected a $53,380 funding request to go toward a $4.7 million project at Amherst Regional High School that would rebuild and reorient the track, and put an artificial turf field inside it.The...

HADLEY — Before Alexandra Dawson, considered a giant of environmental stewardship in the region, died in late 2011, she sought to protect in perpetuity a large swath of wetlands and swamps near the Amherst town line.Within two years of her passing,...

Officials in Shutesbury and Pelham are supporting another Massachusetts community in a Supreme Judicial Court case that, depending on its outcome, could limit how cities and towns control development of large-scale solar projects.With several area...

Many letter writers captured exactly my outrage and disgust at the Northampton Art Council’s response to the Easthampton poet laureate’s comments.I, too, am haunted by what I’ve learned about racism, slavery, and the suffering of Indigenous peoples by...

Write-ins abound in Pelham town election FILE PHOTO FILE PHOTO PELHAM — Three incumbents, including the town moderator, town auditor and a member of the Board of Assessors, received the most write-in votes at this week’s town election and can, if they choose, continue serving Pelham. There were no contested races in Tuesday’s election, which drew 93 of 1,033 registered voters, for a 9% turnout. Moderator Daniel Robb, with 31 write-in votes, can keep the position for another year, while ...

Write-ins abound in Pelham town election FILE PHOTO FILE PHOTO Published: 5/13/2021 10:42:40 AM PELHAM — Three incumbents, including the town moderator, town auditor and a member of the Board of Assessors, received the most write-in votes at this week’s town election and can, if they choose, continue serving Pelham. There were no contested races in Tuesday’s election, which drew 93 of 1,033 registered voters, for a 9% turnout. Moderator Daniel Robb, with 31 write-in votes, can keep the ...

No contests, write-ins on tap in Pelham town election GAZETTE FILE PHOTO GAZETTE FILE PHOTO Published: 5/5/2021 6:07:38 AM PELHAM — Several vacancies in elected positions in town government could be filled by write-in candidates at Tuesday’s town election, which, like last year, features no contested elections and only incumbents running for reelection. Voters can vote in person from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Ramsdell Room at the Pelham Library, 2 South Valley Road. A ballot without contes...

Judith Eiseman: An amazing effort at Cooley Dickinson Published: 1/6/2021 1:54:42 PM Modified: 1/6/2021 1:54:32 PM For 10 days, from my walk into the emergency room at Cooley Dickinson Hospital to the day I left, I saw only masked faces with cheerful voices, caring eyes, and hands carrying medicine, meals, IV poles, syringes, cleaning supplies, clean linens and hope. What is it like to spend 10 days in the COVID unit at Cooley Dickinson? I could give you details, but what I really want to tell...