Hatfield News

Voters at Town Meeting adopted local option taxes for meals and rooms Thursday. The .75 percent tax on restaurant meals will bring the town an additional $18,368 per year in revenues, according to estimates by the state.

Choose your own path to school regionalization, or we'll choose it for you. That was the message from the state over the past couple of years, and it was enough to keep small Hampshire County schools scrambling.

Chad E. Stafford, 30, of 44 Turnpike Road, died Sunday at home. Services will be Friday at 7 p.m. at the Kostanski Funeral Home, 1 Kostanski Square.

Facing financial challenges brought on in part by two years of poor growing weather and crop disease, the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts is ending an arrangement at its farm on Bay Road here whereby shareholders reaped a portion of the annual harvest.

Two people have been treated for smoke inhalation after a fire ripped through a two-family home in the Florence section of the city early Wednesday morning, according to fire officials.

Local and regional officials gathered Thursday for the first Western Massachusetts Hunger Summit, announcing plans for a council that will advocate for policies and resources to combat hunger in Springfield.

It all comes down to timing. At the convergence of the launch of Royal Family Records, the release of the album "Up Here," and the celebration of 10 years in the business, the band Soulive presents "The Royal Family Get Down," a full-day live music festival to be held Saturday at the Pines Theater in Look Park.

Richard M. Cechvala, 72, of Ashuelot, died on Aug. 25 at the Maplewood Nursing home in Westmoreland.

An old-fashioned fireman's muster planned for Sept. 12 will highlight this month's celebrations of the town's 350th anniversary.

Clean playing, clean notes, clean leaves and clean breath. Animated rose envelopes, eloquent children and light breakfast.

St. John Cantius on Hawley street in Northampton. Reaction was varied across the Valley Sunday as Catholics learned which of their churches would close or merge by the end of the year and which would survive under the Springfield diocese's reorganization plan.

Roman Catholics in Northampton, Easthampton and Hatfield will learn next month which of their churches will close in response to a shortage of priests and declining attendance and revenues.

YMCA CEO David Marks, right, talks on his cellphone outside the YMCA on Prospect Street this morning after a blaze that started shortly before 2 a.m. this morning caused heavy damage to the building.

A couple from the Berkshires escaped with their lives after a wild wreck on the highway in Hampshire County.

A couple from the Berkshires escaped with their lives after a wild wreck on the highway in Hampshire County.

A couple from the Berkshires escaped with their lives after a wild wreck on the highway in Hampshire County.

A one-car accident on Interstate 91 northbound left one man in the hospital Sunday, police said.

A couple from the Berkshires escaped with their lives after a wild wreck on the highway in Hampshire County.

Up and down the Connecticut River valley, fields where tall, leafy tobacco plants would be growing in past summers are now barren of life.

The first time Timothy J. Strahan ran for elector of the Oliver Smith will, he lost to the incumbent by almost 900 votes.