Hadley News

Edward Forman, center, directs the middle school band at his final concert at Hopkins Academy last month.

SOUTH HADLEY - Anita I. Castor Kaste, 92, passed away at Hadley at Elaine Care and Rehabilitation Center on May 27, 2012.

This file photo showed workers from the CRC Co., Inc.of Quincy, Mass., working on the fish ladder project in 2010.

Former U.S. Navy signalman Frank Zalot, 87, smiles as he attends a Memorial Day service in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, May 28, 2012.

In this still from aA AoeShelter Me,aA A a shelter dog who is being trained by a a female prisoner to be eventually paired with a person with a disability gets an affectionate pet from a prison guard.

A Ceremonies Memorial Day ceremonies will take place noon Monday in the Veterans' LotA at the Swampscott Cemetery .A Rev.

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This area of 116 in Amherst near Atkins Farms will be closed to traffic for about six weeks while crews work on construction.

Becoming politically active is one way church members are seeking to protect the environment.

West Boylston 's Annual Town Election is June 5, and GoLocalWorcester brings you a profile of the three major races: Selectmen, School Committee and Town Clerk.

Given the rapid growth of farmers markets around the Valley, it comes as little surprise that allies of local agriculture are finding a novel way to tweak farm-consumer transactions.

Harry Delmolino, 18, was taken to Baystate Medical Center by a Northampton Fire Department ambulance on Saturday after his bicycle collided with a car at the intersection of Main and Pleasant streets at 7:15 p.m., said Mary Carey, spokeswoman for the Northwestern district attorney's office.

AMHERST - Ligia Esther Ruiz, 87, of Amherst, passed away peacefully at Hadley at Elaine Care and Rehabilitation Center in Hadley on May 10, 2012.

A man from Hadley is alive but in serious condition after a collision between his bicycle and a car Saturday evening at the city's main downtown intersection.

I once had a friend who lived on Mount Warner in Hadley where, in the woods behind his house, was a large, abandoned orchard on the northern slopes of that modest mountain.

HADLEY, Mass. - Williams College placed seven senior rowers on the All-NESCAC First and Second Teams after a season the Eph Varsity 1 posted an undefeated campaign.

It's asparagus season, and Hampshire County is one of the best places to find it.

Molly Merrett, front, and Bekki Szlosek are part of the Valley Green Feast cooperative, which delivers food to homes as far north as Turners Falls and as far south as Suffield, Conn.

Here is your Poetry News for the week of May 21, 2012. Poetry events are shaking like new spring green leaves in the Pioneer Valley and beyond.

Submitted photo The SouthCoast Children's Chorus will give its spring concert Sunday afternoon at St.