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Holyoke crews respond to car striking guardrail on I-91
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Crews in Holyoke responded to a crash on Saturday night. According to the Holyoke Fire Department, at around 11:30 p.m. firefighters were on scene for reports of a single car accident on I-91. When crews arrived they located the driver who was able to remove themselves...
Massachusetts real estate transactions for Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties May 12, 2024 edition
Adriane L. Hill to Michael A. Mirski and Joann Juliano-Nadolny, 20E Castle Hills Road, $345,000. Ahmet Gunay and Canan Gunay to Jonathan Beaty, 304 Silver St., $355,000. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
My discovery that Amherst isn’t just farmland
I can’t say I was excited to come to Amherst. Upon first glance, and from what I was told many times before, it is just a vast expanse of fields, cows and crops. As a journalism major, I was especially skeptical that there would be anything of interest to write about. But I enrolled anyway, because the University of Massachusetts was relatively cheap.
Prom 2024: Photos of High School of Commerce Prom
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Lost and found
Coming into the University of Massachusetts, I knew one thing for certain: I loved numbers, and I didn’t like to read and write. So, I chose to be a finance and economics major. Throughout my freshman year, I tried to “fit in” and do the usual rounds a finance major does: Finance Society, Investment Club and at one point, I even tried out for the Funds. I jumped from club to club, looking for a place where I would “fit in.” I woke up every day during my sophomore year of college at 5 a.m. to row at the Connecticut River as part of the UMass Rowing Team. I thought, “Isn’t this what a typical Finance student does?” Yes, I was putting the right activities on my resume and continuing a sport I started in high school, but I had to question if this was what I wanted to do. Was I satisfied with my everyday routine of waking up and knowing all I had to do was get good grades, go to the occasional Isenberg club meeting and sluggishly jump into a carpool to row at 5 a.m.?
See all homes sold in Hampshire County, May 5 to May 11
The following is a listing of all home transfers in Hampshire County reported from May 5 to May 11. There were 19 transactions posted during this time. During this period, the median sale for the area was a 1,417-square-foot home on Exeter Street in Easthampton that sold for $360,000. Amherst.
Bear euthanized in wake of I-91 incident, but maybe not the same bear
After a man's body was dragged from the scene of a fatal car crash by a bear, state officials euthanized a nearby black bear. After a bear dragged a man’s body from the scene of a fatal car crash Sunday, state officials confirmed that a bear at the scene was later killed.
Someone’s gotta do it
In the fall of 2021, I published a series of stories that covered the new Student Union and how the space was not designed to support all of UMass’ Registered Student Organizations and Agencies. Student groups had trouble booking space, holding meetings, and organizing events. Directly after the disease-that-shall-not-be-named,...
Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia set to begin annual bike ride across the city
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia will take his annual bike ride across the city. He will begin at Holyoke City Hall and travel all the way to the Fame Lounge on Dwight Street. This ride is sponsored by the Holyoke Biking and Pedestrian Committee in celebration of...
Where none of it mattered, but all of it counted
Perhaps I’m still thinking about my latest economics exam, but sometimes I imagine plotting my college experience on a graph. Of course, I’ll label the axes: assume time is on the “x” and quality is on the “y.”. I imagine hundreds of dots, each representing...
Holyoke mayor uses budget briefing to call for community investments
HOLYOKE — Mayor Joshua A. Garcia says his city’s financial fundamentals are strong. In his proposed budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, he proposes steps to build on that. “Across every important metric, Holyoke is solidly and decisively moving in the right direction,” Garcia told...
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