South Hadley News

CHICOPEE - The School Committee is asking to explore the possibility of adding law classes at Chicopee and Comprehensive high schools.

Gasoline prices are moderating a bit, but they're still high enough - about $3.71 a gallon - to keep would-be travelers close to home this Memorial Day weekend.

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. -- The controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren's ethnic heritage and whether she misrepresented herself as a minority in the past may have engulfed her Senate campaign and the news media, but in parts of western Massachusetts, voters seem either mystified by it or unconcerned.

Libraries offer more than books, says lifelong book-lover and new member of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners Janeen Resnick of South Hadley .

Kristina Constant was in the fourth grade at Mosier Elementary School in South Hadley when she started going blind.

The SouthCoast Children's Chorus performed in a concert entitled "Let Us Journey Together: Singing Our Dreams" in Hadley with the South Hadley Children's Chorus on May 6. It was the first time the SCC traveled and worked with another children's chorus.

SOUTH HADLEY - Of all the books on library shelves, this one stands out even before a page is turned.

SOUTH HADLEY - GRO South Hadley, the town's community garden on Route 47, is back for the season with onsite running water, a date for a food pantry planting, a plan for avoiding the tomato blight that swept the Northeast last year, and plots are still available in the newer section.

Jonathan Wilhem's "Painting in Light" exhibit goes on view May 13 at Thirsty Mind Cafe and Wine Bar in South Hadley.

Woodland resident Julia Frankenbach has received a Beinecke Scholarship and is one of 20 college juniors nationwide to receive the prestigious award, according to a news release from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., where she is studying.

A SOUTH HADLEY - The $19,819,610 budget proposed by the South Hadley School Department for fiscal year 2013 has been whittled down by the School and Appropriations Committees, but Interim Schools Superintendent Christine Swecklo said more expenses may be on the way.

Rachel Maddow talks about the U.S.'s embrace of perpetual war as a way of life and looks at how our views of war - and the business of war - has changed since Vietnam.

Barbara Ripa, assistant executive director of the Massachusetts Association of Regional Schools, accepted the position after the Shaker Mountain School Union School Committee unanimously agreed to appoint her to the post during its meeting at Hancock Central School Thursday night.

Carroll's Restaurant Opens in Medford Square: The new Carroll's restaurant at 21 Main Street opened at 4 p.m. Thursday.

AMHERST - On a day when the high-powered South Hadley boys lacrosse attack was held reasonably in check by Amherst Regional, the Tigers displayed the ability to win in an assortment of ways.

In his first season of high school hockey as a junior, Doug Sattler established himself as one of the best players in western Massachusetts.

New England Patriots linebacker Rob Ninkovitch visited Tufts University's campus Wednesday to help stage a special event for an 8-year-old boy whose life has been turned upside down by a brain tumor.

It's been a long time -- a decade or more -- since we last visited Main Moon in South Hadley.

SOUTH HADLEY - The Annual Town Meeting will be held May 12 beginning at 9:15 a.m. in the South Hadley Town Hall auditorium.

SOUTHAMPTON - Police are attempting to determine if a 17-year-old Holyoke man, arrested early Friday after an officer discovered him inside a stolen vehicle, can be linked to nearly 20 motor vehicle break-ins reported over the last week or so in the County Road area.