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From a site visit to Horse Mountain in Hatfield for the LAND grant. MARK GELOTTE Published: 12/31/2020 7:30:42 AM Fifty years ago, in December 1970, a group of Amherst residents who were members of the first Town Conservation Commission came together to form The Kestrel Trust. Janet and Toby Dakin, two engaged civic leaders — who also helped establish the Dakin Humane Society and Hampshire College—were Kestrel’s driving force for the first decade. Inspired by the first Earth Day that launched the modern environmental movement and wary of new waves of sprawling development, they wanted...

On the future of the county  Puppies. More kids. Less homeless people. Always be happy. Give them a good choice. Give them a fun thing to do. Make people happy always.  On community leaders, the climate and racism  They should make things more safe. They should be more protective of all people. I think systemic racism means science. A science about space. It has tons of planets. Jupiter. I don’t really know what it means.  Climate is changing stuff. How we do stuff. Make a law so that you can’t litter in the ocean. Cuz sharks are cool and we need to try and keep seahorses alive. The o...

Michael Tonn More than 1.6 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19 so far this year; more than 300,000 of them were in the United States, and 100 were in Vermont. The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy. It's driving up rates of depression, anxiety and overdose deaths, and causing record numbers of parents, mostly women, to leave the workforce to care for their kids. And the pandemic has isolated us from friends and family when we need them the most. All of th...

Sid Lancto, longtime manager at Hampshire Mall store Jonathan Reid, leaves legacy as mentor and friend Updated Dec 10, 2020; Facebook Share By the time the men’s clothing store Jonathan Reid closed its doors at the Hampshire Mall, Sidney R. Lancto had worked there nearly half his life. Along the way he was a bit player in countless job interviews, proms, weddings and funerals, selling suits and renting tuxedos that would live on in frames and photo albums across the Pioneer Valley and beyond. As the store manager in Hadley and at a location at the Holyoke Mall in the early 1980s, he also h...

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