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‘We are hungry for rail’: Legislators hold meeting prior to Route 2 passenger service study > > >Published: 7/13/2021 4:56:34 PM
Imagine you live in Greenfield in 1956. It’s Bill Russell’s rookie year with the Boston Celtics and you’ve got tickets to a game at the Boston Garden.
You go to the local train station and at 2:55 p.m. board a car that is already half full, having connected people in Troy, N.Y., at 12:45 p.m., North Adams at 1:51 and Shelburne Falls at 2:28. You step off the train in Boston’s North Station at 5:15 p.m. and still have time for dinner before the game starts.
Concerned parties back small-house model for Soldiers’ Home, vets facilities >Signs, flags, flowers and wreaths are placed at the entrance to the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, pictured in April 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/JERREY ROBERTS > >Published: 7/13/2021 4:59:22 PM
HOLYOKE Gov. Charlie Baker in May signed into law a bill authorizing $400 million in bonds for the design and construction of a new Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke. Now, a couple of entities are trying to add their voices to the discussion of how to handle this project.
Dignity Alliance Massachusetts, a statewide grassroots coalition of aging and disability service and advocacy organizations, and Disabled American Veterans, a nonprofit providing support for veterans and their families, are advocating for a small-house model as opposed to the construction of another large facility, which they say is outdated and unsafe.
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Swift River Valley Historical Society reopens by appointment only >This is the interior of the Southworth Mills School in Greenwich, one of the four towns that was flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Contributed Photo/Swift River Valley Historical Society >Two hurricane lamps circa 1875 to 1880 with hand-cut prisms. They were used in the Swift River Hotel with long candles and given to the Swift River Valley Historical Society by Anne Clifford Loder. Contributed Photo/Swift River Valley Historical Society >This doll bed and quilt were made for the Martindale sisters Martha Elizabeth, born in 1874, and Mary Diana, born in 1875 who lived in Enfield, one of the towns that was flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Contributed Photo/Swift River Valley Historical Society