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  • The Laprade's game is kept in a box covered with pictures of their family that ran in the local papers.

    The Laprade's game is kept in a box covered with pictures of their family that ran in the local papers. Purchase photo reprints »

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Left, Dawud Lubieddin's things are laid out where a bench used to be on Main Street Northampton.  Lubieddin talks with Abd Lomax of Northampton.

    Left, Dawud Lubieddin's things are laid out where a bench used to be on Main Street Northampton. Lubieddin talks with Abd Lomax of Northampton. Purchase photo reprints »

  • Terry Mollner, left, Eileen Spira and Susan Bellak, all with Stakeholders Capital, pose outside their office on Main Street in Amherst with a utility box on the corner of Dickinson Street they were inspired to have painted with a quote of Emily Dickinson, whose homestead is just across the street behind them. The work was painted by Ezzell Floranina.
KEVIN GUTTING

    Terry Mollner, left, Eileen Spira and Susan Bellak, all with Stakeholders Capital, pose outside their office on Main Street in Amherst with a utility box on the corner of Dickinson Street they were inspired to have painted with a quote of Emily Dickinson, whose homestead is just across the street behind them. The work was painted by Ezzell Floranina. KEVIN GUTTING Purchase photo reprints »

  • Samantha Manitsas of Belchertown pitches to South Hadley Monday at Beech Grounds in South Hadley.
JERREY ROBERTS

    Samantha Manitsas of Belchertown pitches to South Hadley Monday at Beech Grounds in South Hadley. JERREY ROBERTS Purchase photo reprints »

  • From left, Alyssa Kuhn, 13, left, Bobby Peterson, 14, Sam Rilpelle, 13, Ashlyn Finnessey, 13, Tess McNamara, 12, Taylor Perrault, 13 and Katie Cole, 13, all students with JFK Middle School chorus teacher Steve Hinks,, sing while washing cars Sunday on King Street 
in Northampton to raise money for the chorus scholarship fund.

SARAH CROSBY

    From left, Alyssa Kuhn, 13, left, Bobby Peterson, 14, Sam Rilpelle, 13, Ashlyn Finnessey, 13, Tess McNamara, 12, Taylor Perrault, 13 and Katie Cole, 13, all students with JFK Middle School chorus teacher Steve Hinks,, sing while washing cars Sunday on King Street in Northampton to raise money for the chorus scholarship fund. SARAH CROSBY Purchase photo reprints »

  • Father Bill Hamilton is sworn in as police department chaplain Wednesday at the Easthampton Public Safety Complex.

SARAH CROSBY

    Father Bill Hamilton is sworn in as police department chaplain Wednesday at the Easthampton Public Safety Complex. SARAH CROSBY Purchase photo reprints »

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