NEW SALEM By providing housing for foreign exchange students, New Salem resident Jeanne Clayton said she “opened her heart and her home” to cultural exchange and memories that will last a lifetime.Clayton and her husband, John, participated in the.
‘Open your heart and home’ through student exchange program
Participating NW Services exchange students leap in the air during a 2013 camping trip in South Carolina. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
A page of a photo book made by New Salem resident Jeanne Clayton when she hosted foreign exchange students Angie, from Ecuador, and Tong, from Thailand, who attended Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange during the 2019 to 2020 school year. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Foreign exchange students submitted hand-drawn designs for the NW Services’ annual Art Cover Design Contest. Angie’s design read featured a young woman sitting on suitcase as a plan flies around the globe behind her. It reads – “It’s not a trip or vacation, it’s a second life.” Contributed Photo/Jeanne Clayton
Big E vaccination site now taking walk-ins
Updated May 10, 2021;
WEST SPRINGFIELD The West of the River Collaborative COVID Vaccination site at The Big E is now open for walk-in recipients with no appointment necessary.
The West Springfield Board of Health made the announcement Monday and it was effective Monday as well. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
People are asked to bring their insurance card and are told that they will be registered on site. The Big E site is offering the Moderna vaccine available to those ages 18 and up.
At the last count, the Big E site has administered 3,496 vaccines since opening April 20, said Jeanne Galloway, West Springfield director of Public Health.
‘Southwick Revisited’ historical photo book celebrates town’s 250th anniversary MassLive.com 2 hrs ago Cynthia G. Simison, masslive.com
It was the contents of an old gym bag he found as a teenager in the attic of his family homestead that began Lee David Hamberg’s journey through time with the history of Southwick. The bag contained a treasure trove of family photographs. It prompted Hamberg to sit with his mother and great-aunt back in the 1970s to learn who the people in the photos were and when the pictures had been taken.
Their history thus documented, those “people” in the photos became “individuals” for Hamberg as he went about tracing his family’s roots in the small town that borders Connecticut with its famous “jog” across the state line.
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