Leeds

Easthampton’s Ross, Ashley Krause fare well at Mount Washington Road Race

Sunday, June 16, 2013

New England’s strongest mountain runner, Eric Blake of New Britain, Conn., faced his best counterparts from the Rocky Mountains and the West Coast on Saturday and beat them to reclaim the champion’s title in the Northeast Delta Dental Mt. Washington Road Race. Blake, who won this 7.6-mile all-uphill race in 2006 and 2008, came back this year from four years of near misses to run up the Mt. Washington Auto … 0

Maria Dean, left, a third-grade student at Leeds School in Northampton, fields fellow students' guesses about the subject of her haiku during an annual poetry cafe in late April at the school.
JERREY ROBERTS

Life at Leeds Elementary School

Friday, May 17, 2013

Leeds Elementary School student Xyomara Kessler, 8, competed in a softball throw event May 9 as part of the Special Olympics hosted by Northampton High School. Shown with Xyomara is Craig Murdock, who teaches adaptive physical education at Leeds. PHOTO BY SARAH CROSBY … 0

Army Sgt. First Class Jack Miller of Goshen, left, and Thomas Pease, Sr. Vice Commander of VFW Post 8006 in Florence, walk Saturday to close the ceremony portion of the Small Town Veterans Expo at the Cummington Fairgrounds. Miller and Pease are Vietnam veterans.

SARAH CROSBY

Veterans services highlighted at expo in Cummington

Saturday, May 11, 2013

CUMMINGTON — Iraq war veteran Alonzo Swift lived in his car for close to four years after becoming unemployed soon after his return from duty in 2005. This changed when he learned about Soldier On, an organization that provides services for homeless veterans, at an outreach event in Springfield in 2010. Soldier On … 0