Local restaurant owners react to proposed ballot question to increase service wage, create tip pool
Franklin County restaurant owners have mixed feelings about a proposed ballot question that would increase service wages for tipped workers and allow businesses to create a tip pool for all employees, supporting the concept but worried about the...
Four Winds School in Gill to close
GILL — Having struggled with an ongoing drop in enrollment since 2020, Four Winds School plans to close at the end of the academic year.Four Winds Director Hattie Adastra said the enrollment troubles began during the COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, the...
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Denver’s Tristan Broz scores in double-overtime to knock off UMass, 2-1, in NCAA Tournament opening round (PHOTOS)
SPRINGFIELD — When the Massachusetts and Denver hockey teams meet in the NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Championship, 60 minutes doesn’t seem to be enough to decide a winner. After playing to overtime in the 2019 NCAA tournament semifinals, the fourth-seeded...
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My Turn: Protecting access to contraception: A winning issue for Democrats in November 2024
In the wake of growing Republican restrictions on reproductive rights, Democrats in many states are introducing bills to protect access to contraception. In response, Republicans are blocking these bills, going on record as opposed to contraception....
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Sounds Local: Thriving on a riff: Percussionist Tony Vacca brings Fusion Nomads to Hawks & Reed this Friday for ‘a magic carpet ride’
‘From the first time a musician went beyond his or her home village, or region, or nation,” percussionist Tony Vacca says, “music has been an ever-expanding, multi-culti hybrid of instruments and ways to play them.” According to Vacca, that is the...
Obituaries
1928-2024 Wilbraham, MA - Oderay Boyer, long time resident of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, died on Thursday, December 21, 2023. She was 95 years old. Born Oderay Arsenia Moscoso on Septemb... remainder of obit for Oderay Boyer
Greenfield, MA - Gregory N. Walko, 73, passed away peacefully Thursday March 21, 2024 at Baystate Franklin Medical Center surrounded by family. He was born January 6, 1951 to George and Jen... remainder of obit for Gregory N. Walko
Hockessin, DE - Veronica (Korpita) Wroblewski, 95, passed away on March 22, 2024 after a period of declining health. Veronica was born in Sunderland MA, April 29, 1928, the ninth of 12 ... remainder of obit for Veronica Wroblewski
Shelburne, MA - Craig A. Underwood, 81, passed away at home on February 27, 2024. Craig was born on November 3, 1942 to Hazel Jean Underwood and adopted by her parents, George A. and Robert... remainder of obit for Craig A. Underwood