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HADLEY — Residents at annual Town Meeting next month will not get a chance to weigh in on investing more than $1 million into the aging Russell School building in town center, but instead will consider a significantly smaller expenditure for a...

HADLEY — Residents at annual Town Meeting next month will not get a chance to weigh in on investing more than $1 million into the aging Russell School building in town center, but instead will consider a significantly smaller expenditure for a...

The Airmont village clerk certified the election without counting hundreds of absentee ballots, a situation criticized and expected to be corrected Wednesday

Rocklands major contested village elections result in incumbent-led teams winning decisively, spurred by Orthodox Jewish voters in each community.

Airmont Trustee Brian Downey pleads guilty to federal gun charge of illegally possessing an unregistered firearm. He still faces state charges.

HADLEY — Before the town’s elected officials adopt a resolution declaring the existence of a global and regional climate emergency, and outline various methods for confronting it, residents will be offered an opportunity for input.With the Hadley...

From the blog of Scott Cushing at The Times of Israel

Environmental Services: Which Batteries To Throw, Recycle County Environmental Services News: The recycling world can be confusing as the rules change often. One item that confuses a lot of people is which battery can be recycled and which battery can be tossed in the trash. This article covers what can and cannot be thrown in the trash, a little background as to why, and where to take batteries that need to be recycled. In the past, single-use batteries commonly found in households (AA, AAA, ...

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israels diplomatic reporter US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the Western Wall on the final day of his tenure, January 20, 2021 (Courtesy) David Friedman still believes. The bankruptcy lawyer who became one of Donald Trump’s most trusted foreign policy advisers came into his role as US ambassador to Israel with a clearly defined conservative, pro-Israel ideology, and he left office with that worldview firmly intact. Friedman maintains that by coming in as ...