Immigration anxiety rising for Pioneer Valley migrants, advocates
Hunched against the cold in a warehouse filled with freshly picked vegetables, a farm laborer sat down for lunch. But her mind was somewhere else.“I’m feeling scared, because when I go out, I’m not feeling safe to walk to the supermarket. I’m worried...
Adding light one day at a time: Hanukkah illumination starts Wednesday in Greenfield
GREENFIELD — With the goal of bringing “a little bit of light [to] dispel a lot of darkness,” in the words of organizer Jasper Lapienski, Greenfield will have a public Hanukkah menorah and community celebration for the second year in a row.Lapienski,...
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Sports
Indoor track: Greenfield, Frontier, Mahar, Mohawk Trail compete in second meet of season
The second PVIAC indoor track meet of the season took place on Sunday at Smith College, with Frontier, Greenfield, Mahar and Mohawk Trail participating. The Green Wave and the Senators opened the day in the early meet before the Redhawks and the...
Opinion
Columnist Daniel Cantor Yalowitz: Growing through curiosity
“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” — Unknown We are born into the world unknowing but highly curious. It is our curiosity that enables us to survive our earliest hours and days. At birth we lack the vocabulary to express...
Your Daily Puzzles
An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."
A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.
Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.
Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.
Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.
Business
Real Pickles buys Greenfield building it has called home since 2009
GREENFIELD — Real Pickles, a worker-owned cooperative specializing in organic, fermented foods, has bought the 311 Wells St. building it has called home since 2009.The local company bought the property from business founders Dan Rosenberg and Addie...
Arts & Life
A new approach to the ever-evolving latke: Trying out Southwestern Latkes for Hanukkah this year
Hanukkah begins Wednesday night, Christmas night. I love having the two holidays coincide, which they don’t always do since Hanukkah is determined by a lunar calendar. I celebrate both so it tickles me to wallow in celebration and to sing Christmas...
Obituaries
Turners Falls , MA - Denise Jo-Anne Bouchard, 53, of 63 7th Street passed away Thursday evening (12/19/24) at Springfield Baystate Medical Center with her fiancée and family by her side. Born on December 2,1971, in Concord, MA, she was... remainder of obit for Denise Jo-Anne Bouchard
Greenfield, MA - Sheila Diane Thompson, 71, passed away on December 20, 2024, at RegalCare in Greenfield, Massachusetts, following her cancer diagnosis in 2022. Sheila was predeceased by her father, Robert Thompson; her mother, Flor... remainder of obit for Sheila Thompson
Whately, MA - Judith Ann (Kortz) Bohonowicz of Whately passed away on December 13th, 2024 at the age of 73 after a short fight with lung cancer. Born July 22, 1951 in Greenfield MA, daughter of the late Theodore "Jocko" & Florence (... remainder of obit for Judith Bohonowicz
Dorothy "Dottie" A. Conway Colrain, MA - Dorothy "Dottie" A. Conway, 79, of 9 River Street passed away early Tuesday morning (12.17.24) at the Baystate Franklin Medical Center with her family by her side. Born on January 25, 1945, in Gr... remainder of obit for Dorothy A. Conway