- Local restaurant to host benefit dinner
The owners of a local restaurant are putting together a fundraiser to benefit two Hatfield businesses devastated by fire this week.
- Auto shop fully engulfed in flames
Firefighters are at the scene of a Hatfield business that is fully engulfed in flames.
- Photo: Fire destroys Hatfield building
The billows of white smoke could be seen for miles, but the effects of Monday's fire at 2 Prospect Court was felt in countless homes in Hatfield and beyond.
- Photo: LABEL: Mergers ahead?
A second-grade class works inside the Hatfield Elementary School. 2 BRIAN TEDDER The Hadley Elementary School, left, and the Hatfield Elementary School, right, are part of two independent school systems whose ...
- New Valley-based group pledges activism in Obama's name
Valley backers of President-Elect Barack Obama want to tap the power of 20 - including Jan.
- Fund helps family make up for dog's overindulgence
This was almost the year that 4-year-old golden retriever Lilly ruined Christmas for her family.
- Belchertown picks school superintendent
By JOHN APPLETON jappleton@repub.com BELCHERTOWN - Judith C. Houle has been chosen as the next superintendent of schools because of her experience with curriculum and technology as well as her commitment to the ...
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Traffic in Downtown Northampton was snarled for hours after police say rain is to blame for a pedestrian accident.
- Recycling becomes a tougher sell, but Valley haulers insulated so far from steep price drop
David Reed of Amherst Trucking picks up paper recycling materials on Grantwood Drive in Amherst on Wednesday.
- Just Plain Neighbors: It's time to begin tracking Old Man Winter
It's official! The season's first snow. Sunday's light covering of snow means to Dick Pomeroy of Millers Falls that there will be 23 more snowfalls left for the 2008-2009 snow season of the 24 he has predicted ...
- Hadley, Hatfield consider merging school systems
By DIANE LEDERMAN dlederman@repub.com HADLEY - They're not quite the Twin Cities, but Hadley and Hatfield have so much in common that they're thinking about regionalizing their school districts.
- Brosco to shut Andover warehouse, lay off 60
The collapsing construction industry, and tumbling economy, just took some more victims.
- Area food pantries seeing growing demand
Local food pantries are seeing a surge of people coming through their doors as worsening economic conditions in Franklin County have forced people to seek social services to make ends meet.
- Western Mass. food pantries see increase in people seeking help this season
Lorraine V. Houle, of Lorraine's Soup Kitchen in Chicopee, is shown with a turkey that will be included in a Thanksgiving bag.
- Voters turn out in droves for historic election
At Leeds School in Northampton, Valerie Vignaux of Leeds looks over the ballot with her son, Griffin Adelmann, 2, while brother Leo Adelmann, 4 months, is content in his car seat.
- Behind Obama's message: Hatfield native holds top post in campaign
The 30-minute Barack Obama infomercial that ran Wednesday night had a Hatfield man's fingerprints all over it.
- Ballot's other issues: preservation act, Belchertown project
In addition to state questions on the ballot Tuesday, several communities will decide local matters.
- Investors flee the market, their return uncertain
John Zokowski was planning to retire this year. That is, until the market downturn wiped 40 percent from his stock holdings, forcing him to contemplate work for at least another year.
- Mutual Understanding: Investors flee to stock market's sidelines, no return in sight
John Zokowski was planning to retire this year. That is, until the market downturn wiped 40% from his stock holdings, forcing him to contemplate work for at least another year.
