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back left, Steve Laprade, Louise Labrie, Peter Brooks, left middle in white is, Marie Laprade, left sitting is Nick Laprade,17, Cathy Brooks and Ron Laprade with the Laprade Family Trivia game members of the family made for their parents, Rusty and Marie Laprade in 2003.

Custom trivia game reveals generations of Laprade family lore

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Some families track their history through genealogy books, photo albums and websites. Others consult diaries or boxes of keepsakes. For the Laprades, a longtime Easthampton family, it’s a trivia game. Their own. For the last decade, the family has spent countless hours around the dining room table or in living rooms playing a very personal version of Trivial Pursuit in … 0

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

Rev. William Hamilton first Easthampton police chaplain

Monday, May 20, 2013

EASTHAMPTON — The newest person to wear an Easthampton Police Department badge is not a young recruit. He is a 60-year-old Catholic priest who said he will devote himself to supporting the city’s officers as they deal with a demanding, sometimes dangerous job. The Rev. William J. Hamilton, a longtime area priest now … 0

Zacaree Banas at his graduation from South Hadley High School last summer. COURTESY OF THE BANAS FAMILY

Around Easthampton: Family rallies to help one in need

Monday, May 20, 2013

The family of an 18-year-old city man recently diagnosed with cancer is organizing a benefit to help pay his medical bills. Allen Banas said his son, Zacaree Banas, graduated from South Hadley High School last year and was planning to join the U.S. Air Force. In March, when he got his Air Force … 0

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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. Custom trivia game reveals generations of Laprade family lore
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. Fewer Northampton benches in effort to curb loitering
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