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Northampton's eary childhood coordinator Barbara Black is shown here with Marcelina Berthiaume, 5, second from left, during a recent gathering at Meadowbrook Apartments. Black says she worries about impending cuts to the Head Start program because it "picks up the families with the highest needs.” JERREY ROBERTS

Federal budget cuts result in fewer Pioneer Valley Head Start slots

Monday, June 17, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — Without the city’s Head Start childcare program, Jennifer Allen said she could not have held onto her first job in six years, a part-time position as a personal trainer at the Hampshire Regional YMCA. The 36-year-old Easthampton resident said she was secure in knowing the two youngest of her four children, Asa, 6 and R.J., 4, were enrolled … 0

Recorder/Paul Franz Acres of cultivated fields in Northfield.

Franklin County gets $74,000 to expand food supplies

Friday, June 14, 2013

With completion of a “Sustainable Franklin County” plan that calls for the region to protect farmland and expand local food supplies, a new $74,000 grant will advance “strategic food system planning” over the next year to help build “a resilient regional food system.” The grant came from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, a … 0

Big Y employees check out customers Wednesday at the Northampton store. Big Y Supermarket already offers insurance to all of its approximately 10,000 employees, no matter how many hours they work, but the affordability clause in the Affordable Care Act is a concern, said Michael Galat, the company’s vice president of employee services. JERREY ROBERTS

Local businesses ‘weeding through’ Obamacare insurance regulations to comply

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Employers in this state are not new to dealing with health care reform. In 2006, those that didn’t already have it added coverage for their full-time employees when the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law required it. But when new regulations from the federal Affordable Care Act go into effect next year, employers will … 0

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MOVIE TIMES

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Movie times are for today, April 11 AMHERST CINEMA  28 Amity St., Amherst 253-2547 www.amherstcinema.org Beyond the Hills (NR) 5:15, 8:30 From Up On Poppy Hill (PG) 2, 5, 7:25, 9:30 The Gatekeepers (PG-13) 2:30, 4:45, 7:25, 9:30 Manet (NR) 7 On the Road (R) Daily 4:30, 9:40 Quartet (PG-13) … 0

Greenfield officials say Massachusetts Virtual Academy has cost town nothing

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Massachusetts Virtual Academy, the district’s 3-year-old cyber school, “hasn’t cost Greenfield a penny,” according to School Committee Chairman John Lunt. Every expense — the salaries of the school’s teachers, computers sent to students, curriculum run by for-profit company K12 and hours logged by Greenfield school administrators to … 0

Recorder file photo Greenfield's proposed biomass plant would be built on Butternut Street in the Interstate 91 Industrial Park.

Greenfield biomass plans undecided

Monday, April 8, 2013

GREENFIELD — The man who wants to build a 47-megawatt wood-burning power plant in the industrial park says he has “no definite plans” about how he will proceed. “I’m still trying to figure things out,” said Matthew Wolfe … 0

EDUCATION BRIEFS

Sunday, April 7, 2013

UMass programs listed in U.S. News rankings AMHERST — Each year, U.S. News ranks professional school programs in several fields, including business, education and engineering. The Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is ranked among the best business schools in the country and its … 0

Greenfield Community College, job center host Tuesday employment fair

Sunday, April 7, 2013

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community College will co-host a career and job fair Tuesday with the Franklin Hampshire Career Center. Admission to the fair is free and open to the public. It runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the GCC Dining Commons, with parking available in lots … 0

Greenfield administrators pursue new virtual school

Sunday, April 7, 2013

GREENFIELD — The school district’s innovation subcommittee intends to apply for a five-year certificate for a new state-authorized virtual school that would use the Internet to serve as many as 1,750 students across the state by 2017. Subcommittee members Doris Doyle, John Lunt and Mayor William Martin met … 0

Contamination concerns  plague Lunt Silversmith sale

Friday, April 5, 2013

GREENFIELD — It may be summer before the town takes ownership of the former Lunt Silversmith property, if at all. The purchase and sale agreement between the town and the owner of Lunt expired on March 29, and at about the same time, groundwater contamination was found in … 0

Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson is shown in a scene from "42," by writer-director Brian Helgeland. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures)

Movie Times

Friday, April 5, 2013

Contact theaters to verify titles and times, which are subject to change. AMHERST CINEMA 28 Amity St., Amherst 253-2547 Beyond the Hills (NR) Daily 5:15, 8:30; Sat.- Sun. also 2 Elza (NR) Tues. 7:30 From Up On Poppy Hill (PG) … 0

MOVIE TIMES

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Movie times are for today, April 4 AMHERST CINEMA  28 Amity St., Amherst 253-2547 www.amherstcinema.org The Gatekeepers (PG-13) 2:30, 4:45, 7:25, 9:30 Ginger & Rosa (PG-13) 5 Look Into the Glass Onion (NR) 4, 7 On the Road (R) 2, 9:45 Quartet (PG-13) 5, 7:15, 9:20 Yossi (NR) 7:15 CINEMARK … 0

IN THE NEWS: Environment

Monday, April 1, 2013

PETITION SEEKS TO HALT BIOMASS PLANT: It appears a citizens petition to stop large-scale wood-burning facilities from being built in Greenfield for the next year and a half will go to Town Council for a vote as written. On March 22, the Planning Board, which will send the … 0

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