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Rylee Joseph took first place in both the long jump (14 feet, 2.25 inches) and triple jump (29-11.5), and Kat Simmons won the javelin (72-11) and the shot put (25-6) to lift the Hampshire Regional girls’ track and field team to a 77-41 win over...
AMHERST – There’s bound to be some rustiness during the first game of the season, and that was true for both the South Hadley and Amherst hockey teams on Friday night. However, it didn’t take either team much time to get their skates under them, and...
Renita Whitney hasn’t had steady employment since March 2020, when she had to quit her job to stay home with her 10-year-old daughter after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools. But lately, it feels like she has a new job: Trying to apply for rental assistance. Every morning, Whitney wakes early to start calling 211 and other rental assistance numbers, listening to pre-recorded messages and leaving voicemails, asking for help. “It’s like whack-a-mole,” Whitney, 52, said....
Havlik points out, the pace is putting pressure on landlords, too. “Evictions are always a last a last resort,” he said. “We're all concerned that the rental assistance isn't reaching residents quickly enough.” The feds have called on states to dole out at least 65% of their federal rent assistance dollars by the end of September. Multiple state officials and advocates confirm, the U.S. Department of Treasury has said, if that deadline is not met, the feds could take their housing funds back, though officials haven’t definitively said they will. State officials told KGW Monday, they...
Oregon races to distribute rent assistance as eviction moratorium comes to an end OregonLive.com 10 hrs ago Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive.com Xochitl Garnica rented a two-acre farm on Sauvie Island shortly before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, hoping to expand the farming collective she runs with two other farmers. The timing was far from ideal. Many of the farmers markets Garnica had planned to attend last year were canceled, and she could no longer teach in-person farming workshops. Her husband lost his job in construction amid the pandemic as well and has been unable...