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FACT Force addresses Northampton budget challenges

As Northampton faces tough budget choices in the coming years, a community task force is working this fall to bring more residents into the decision-making process and give them a voice in setting the city’s financial priorities. Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra recently established the Northampton Fiscal Assessment Community Task Force,...

Northampton, MA · 2d

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Select Board approves paid leave for Southwick CAO through June

SOUTHWICK — Chief Administrative Officer Nicole Parker will be on a paid leave of absence from Nov. 27 until her three-year contract expires in June, under a settlement approved Monday night by Select Board members Douglas Moglin and Joseph Deedy. The reasons for this decision, however, remain known to...

Southwick, MA · 2d

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South Hadley approves eight of 11 articles at Special Town Meeting

SOUTH HADLEY — The Nov. 9 special Town Meeting saw voting members gather at South Hadley High School, where the approved 8 out of 11 articles on the warrant. For Article 1, South Hadley Town Meeting members approved hearing a report from the Master Plan Implementation Committee. Town Meeting...

South Hadley, MA · 2d

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It’s kitten season. These Columbia County rescues are keeping extra cats off the streets.

Climate change is extending “kitten season” well into winter.

Columbia County, NY · 1d

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Northampton Shuts Down Data Centers for a Year, Kills Small-Business Carve-Out

Northampton Board of Health — Possible Select Committee Review Role. Northampton's City Council voted unanimously to enact a yearlong moratorium on data centers, blocking new construction of server farms and related facilities across the city while a newly formed committee studies how such projects might affect local power, water and noise levels. Before reaching that unanimous vote, councilors first killed a proposed carve-out that would have let smaller operations skip the ban entirely.

Northampton, MA · 15h

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New proposed SNAP cuts would spread hunger among more WMass residents

SPRINGFIELD — For every meal a food pantry provides a hungry family, government grocery assistance provides far more, according to a leader at a Western Massachusetts charity. Local food pantries will face a fresh onslaught if additional cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, proposed by the...

Massachusetts · 3d

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PFAS Chemicals Found in Most Western Mass Rivers, Including Deerfield and Chicopee

Trace amounts of PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals, have turned up in freshwater bodies across western Massachusetts, with the Deerfield River registering 1.3 nanograms per liter, the Chicopee River at 3.9 ng/L, and the Millers River posting the highest reported concentration in the region at 4.8 ng/L. The readings are part of a broader pattern of contamination found across the state's rivers, ponds and lakes, raising fresh questions for anglers, paddlers and anyone who draws drinking water from groundwater fed by these waterways.

Massachusetts · 18h

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Holyoke provides updates on major road, safety projects across the city

HOLYOKE — The city’s first roundabout, a major downtown street reconstruction project and continued work on the Center City Connector are among several infrastructure improvements moving forward across Holyoke, according to an update released on Tuesday by Mayor Joshua Garcia’s office. The projects are at various stages...

Holyoke, MA · 1d

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3rd Annual Christmas on High Street in Holyoke

(Mass Appeal) – Get into the holiday spirit in Holyoke with Christmas on High Street, a free, family-friendly celebration featuring festive fun, a community toy drive, and two days of holiday events to bring joy to local families!. Joining us to now to tell us more is Jazmin Acevedo,...

Holyoke, MA · 1d

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Wahconah Students Showcase Their Art Celebrating Diversity and Culture

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Juvenile Court is showcasing student art that celebrate the diversity and culture of the county. Last Thursday, Wahconah Regional High students got to show the public their work at an opening reception and why they chose to make what they did. Chief Probation Officer Deanne...

Dalton, MA · 2d

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Northampton City Council unanimously approves one-year moratorium on data centers

NORHTAMPTON — The City Council has approved a one-year moratorium on data centers, giving its newly formed Data Center Select Committee a window to study the impacts of commercial data centers. The decision will now help the committee define the different types of data centers and recommend regulations to...

Northampton, MA · 1d

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Advocates call for safer streets at Holyoke City Hall

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Community members are remembering those killed or seriously hurt in road crashes and calling for safer streets. Western Mass News was at Holyoke City Hall with more on the ceremony and how advocates are trying to make a difference on the streets. Local officials, volunteers, and...

Holyoke, MA · 1d

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Columbia County Supervisor hopes three month Flock moratorium is a step towards a permanent ban

In recent weeks and months, municipalities around the region have protested - and in some cases, restricted - the use of Flock automated license plate readers - commonly referred to as Flock cameras. Most recently, Columbia County's Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday night to place a moratorium on the use of the cameras. Sonja Okun represents the city of Hudson, New York on the Board of Supervisors, and voted in favor of the moratorium. She spoke with WAMC’s Sam Dingman:

Columbia County, NY · 2d

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Pittsfield School Committee to Discuss Operational Procedures

PITTSFIELD, Mass.—School officials will meet as the Committee of the Whole to discuss operating procedures for meetings. School Committee member Heather McNeice asked that a discussion of meeting protocols be added to last week's agenda. "The point of tonight is that to run a meeting, we're not going to...

Pittsfield, MA · 2d

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Letters for veterans: western Mass. lawmaker continues special, annual delivery

-- Carrying a plastic crate into the Veterans Home at Holyoke, Hampden and Hampshire State Senator John Velis says some 2,000 letters from western Mass. school children were delivered to veterans this week - so many that more were being distributed to other retired veterans as well as active-duty members.

Massachusetts · 1d

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Living in Hoffman Homes parks 'a nightmare' with no escape

Hoffman Tenants Advocacy Group said park owners are still trying to force tenants to pay their property taxes, despite July ruling noted it "runs afoul" of the law.

Albany, NY · 5d

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20 Famous People You Didn’t Know Were From Albany County, New York

Albany County is much larger than the city that gives it its name. North of the capital, the old industrial city of Cohoes meets the Mohawk River at the great falls. In Watervliet, the history of the arsenal and the Hudson River runs through generations of working families. To the west are Guilderland and Altamont; to the south, Bethlehem and its communities of Delmar and Selkirk. Colonie and Latham form another extensive part of the county’s suburban landscape. These places have their own histories, schools, neighborhoods, and remarkable former residents.

Albany County, NY · 5d

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Flock seeks removal from Troy City Council lawsuit vs Mantello

Flock Safety is seeking to be removed as a party in a lawsuit that the Troy City Council and a city auditor filed against Mayor Carmella Mantello.

Troy, NY · 2d

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Brace for off-the-rails DSA lunacy as Albany goes bluer than ever

Rosie O’Donnell says last week’s Election Day lurch to the left could prompt her to return to New York from her self-imposed political exile in Ireland. Meanwhile, billionaire business leader, jobs producer and philanthropist John Catsimatidis says that if New York politics gets any crazier, he’s pulling out of the state entirely. Getting O’Donnell while losing Catsimatidis — that’s a lousy trade. But it could happen, because New York’s newly elected Legislature, along with a governor emboldened by her 20-point trouncing of her Republican rival , is set to pursue a slew of far-left initiatives that will leave voters poorer, less safe and less free. As Catsimatidis said last week at a Gatestone Institute lunch, the left is replacing common sense with nonsense. Say goodbye to any semblance of a two-party system in Albany: Democrats will have veto-proof majorities in both houses of the Legislature, holding 111 out of the 150 seats in the Assembly and the largest majority in the Senate since 1846. The Working Families Party, usually a mere ballot-line vehicle for left-wing candidates to grow their vote, has pulled ahead of the expiring Republican Party — with 34 endorsed candidates in the Senate and 65 in the

New York · 3d

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Churchill: The location of the Philip Schuyler statue can at last be revealed

The statue was removed three years after the initial 2020 announcement and there’s been little public discussion of a new location.

Albany, NY · 1d