Agawam News

The downtown restaurant that got the city's hot dog wars boiling this summer will be sold to the highest bidder next week.

Our editorial board meetings with political candidates give us the opportunity to ask a variety of questions, many of them the same ones you might ask, but there was one question that was put to all the mayoral candidates this year: "Have you ever been arrested?" Some of them were taken aback, even after we prefaced the question by explaining that ...

Burdened with a terrible state fiscal crisis and deep cuts in local aid, the winners of today's mayoral elections in Western Massachusetts will be dealing with some of the worst fiscal conditions in decades, observers said on Monday.

Al Valenta, a tattoo artist at Loonar Tattoo in Hadley, and owner Amity Perman talk Thursday about Wednesday's police raids on two nearby massage businesses.

President Barack Obama has nominated a state police detective lieutenant from Agawam to be the next U.S. Marshal in Massachusetts.

MAKES IT THIS TIME TO BECOME THE FIRST FEMALE MAYOR OF HOLYOKE. SHE ACCEPTED THE CONCESSION OF BUSINESSMAN DANIEL BOYLE WHO WAS WARMLY RECEIVED BY PLUTA SUPPORTERS WHEN HE ADDRESSED THEM AT THE WHEREHOUSE.

Richard A. Cohen greets his supporters at The Oaks as supporter Shane R. Hope of Agawam gives out a yell in the backround after the results for Agawam mayor were announced Tuesday night AGAWAM - As he stood in the foyer of the Oaks on Suffield Street and greeted well-wishers, Richard A. Cohen, the city's mayor-elect, credited his political ...

Westfield voter Kenneth S. Andwood, standing, checks in Tuesday morning at Munger Hill Elementary School with election workers Florence A. White, left, and Suzanne Adams, right, while Warden Judith A. Matyseck stands by.

Voters in cities across Western Massachusetts will go to the polls Tuesday to decide elections that include mayoral races in which incumbents are fighting to keep their jobs.

Springfield Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell will dedicate and bless the newest Catholic mausoleum, to be named Most Holy Redeemer, on Monday, Nov.

In a prelude to Tuesday's election, 16 of the City Council candidates staked out their positions on Thursday at a political forum at the Middle School.

Contentious talk was center stage in a mayoral debate this week between businessman Derek J. Benton and former Mayor Richard A. Cohen, the respective vote leaders in the Oct.

More than 600 people attended the Super 60 Awards luncheon at Chez Josef in Agawam.

Icy roads are creating a nightmare on area roads Monday morning. State Police told 22News there were several accidents on Route 391 Monday morning because of icy road conditions.

Matching state money was cut sharply for 65 communities that have approved a law for buying open space, marking the second year in a row of declining state contributions for the program.

A recasting of the preliminary mayoral race has begun taking shape with the announcements of write-in campaigns this week by City Councilors Cecilia P. Calabrese and Paul C. Cavallo.

Interstate 391 was essentially closed Monday morning, from Exit 2 to the Holyoke line, as state police dealt with a spate of mostly minor accidents due to black ice.

A man is being treated at Baystate Medical Center after he received serious injuries in a rollover accident Saturday night.

In addition to a 2007 arrest at a downtown Springfield strip club, mayoral candidate Derek J. Benton's police record shows he faced charges for a reported home invasion in 1994 in Feeding Hills.

The 2009 Western Massachusetts Walk to Cure Diabetes is Sunday at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Mass.