Hatfield News

Author Mira Bartok talks recently at her New Salem home about her book, "The Memory Palace," about a childhood shaped by a gifted, but schizophrenic, mother and Bartok's own struggle with a traumatic brain injury.

Adam Lesko laid the stone for the patio, trimming each stone by hand. He hired a stonemason to build a curved retaining wall, including edging for a hot tub, shown in the foreground.

SOUTHAMPTON - A 12-year-old cyclist struck by a car at the start of Memorial Day weekend is believed to still be at Baystate Medical Center, according to Southampton public safety officials, who were unable to provide an immediate update on his condition.

HATFIELD - C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. has agreed to pay a $126,700 penalty for claims it violated the federal Clean Air Act when a gas leak sickened workers at its North Hatfield Road warehouse, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reports.

The federal obstruction of justice criminal case against the Hampshire Superior Court's acting chief probation officer , who told a subordinate being interviewed by the FBI that she was a rat who would end in jail, according to court records, was continued Tuesday until June 26 for a pre-trial conference.

A federal grand jury has indicted the acting chief probation officer in Hampshire Superior Court on two counts including intimidating and harassing a witness in the federal investigation into the state Probation Department and attempted harassment of a witness, according to documents submitted Wednesday by prosecutors.

HADLEY - Two candidates with experience leading school districts are finalists in the town's search for an interim superintendent.

Several women from Western Massachusetts will be among those honored on May 16 by the state Commission on the Status of Women in its Class of 2012 of Unsung Heroines.