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Agawam school board ‘excited’ for return to fully in-person classes Updated Mar 11, 2021; AGAWAM — To all you students and teachers booting up the computer this morning for another day of online classes: “Hang in there, we’re almost done.” That’s the message from Dawn Dube, who, along with all of her colleagues on the School Committee, said on Tuesday she is are “excited” to have all elementary school pupils returning to full-time in-person learning next month. A state mandate from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is forcing all school districts in Massa...

Maggie and Eugene Dawson spend a sunny afternoon in their backyard with their two children and their adopted nieces and nephews, the Alejandre children, on June 17 in Granger. The Dawson family almost immediately took in eight of the Alejandre children after their father, Jaime Munguia Alejandre, killed their mother on June 1, 2017. A jury found Alejandre guilty in December 2018 of second-degree murder and unlawfully disposing of a body. Today, Maggie and Eugene have created a home and a sanctuary for six of the children, making sure none of them would be split up. Photos by Amanda Ray, Yakim...