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EASTHAMPTON — It has been a decade since Susan Royea’s soulmate, Paul Atkinson Sr., died in 2011. Thinking back on Thursday, she remembered his love for Christmas.“He loved all the decorations and kids,” she said. “That was his holiday that he really...
WESTHAMPTON — To an onlooker, it might have seemed bizarre that Charlotte Wood chose to give her daughter, Charlene Bordonaro, a can of kidney beans as a Christmas present last year. To Wood, however, this “gag gift” had personal significance, as it...
NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Lions Club has continued a tradition more than two decades old, donating $1,500 this year to the Sidney F. Smith Toy Fund to provide holiday gifts for area children in need. “We never want any children to go without...
NORTHAMPTON — Susan Kohler-Gray’s son Ian Mathew Gray died in 2013 of synovial sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, at the age of 29.“He was incredibly creative and caring,” she said. “He lived his life to the fullest.”Following his death, Kohler-Gray...
NORTHAMPTON — Even in the face of a worldwide pandemic in 2020, donors stepped up, in record-breaking fashion, to support the Gazette’s Sidney F. Smith Toy Fund.After raising $82,376 last year, hundreds of area families will again benefit during the...