Ludlow News

Chicopee Mayor Michael Bissonnette, left, and State Rep. Harold P. Naughton Jr., chairman of the Joint Committee of Public Safety and Homeland Security listen during a gun violence tour stop at the Chicopee Public Library on Friday.

Five men, accepted into the diaconate program of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in 2009, will be ordained permanent deacons in today at 11 a.m. at St.

Belchertown: Services at Quabbin Park Cemetery. Visitors should begin gathering at 10:30 a.m. for 11 a.m. ceremony.

The Lee and Tyringham school committees expect to make a joint decision tonight whether to hire the top administrator of a private school in Hawaii as the interim superintendent of the Lee Public Schools.

Sgt. Brian Keenan said a 39-year-old man from Ludlow was stabbed in the abdomen at approximately 5:15 p.m. in the area of the 1300 block of Worcester Street.

Workers for Baltazar Contractors of Ludlow perform repair work on the sewer line at Washburn and Plainfield streets in Springfield Friday.

Selectman Carmina Fernandes said traffic backs up over the Putts Bridge, which connects Ludlow to Indian Orchard.

LUDLOW - Ludlow Police Department Patrolman David Belanger has been named a sergeant by the Board of Selectmen.

The top administrator of a private school in Hawaii is the lone finalist for the interim superintendent job at Lee Public Schools, school officials announced on Monday.

The May meeting of the Massachusetts 104th Fighter Wing Air National Guard Alumni Association will be held on May 15 at the Non-Commissioned Officers Club at Barnes Regional Airport.

Exit 7 Theater, home of the Exit 7 Players, is at 37 Chestnut St. in Ludlow. The troupe is staging i"Little Shop of Horrors" as its spring musical.

Fair or foul? Travis Browne knocked out Gabriel Gonzaga at TUF 17 Finale last month in Las Vegas, but the Nevada State Athletic Commission sees no reason to overturn it, despite a couple of questionable strikes landing prior to the fight being stopped.

PITTSFIELD -- Adam Lee Hall , one of three men accused in a 2011 triple slaying that prosecutors say is linked to the Pittsfield chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, has proclaimed his innocence in a letter to the Berkshire Eagle .