news, westhampton

School Notes: In Easthampton, the sweet sounds of success

cbaum — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 05:00:00 -0500

EASTHAMPTON

When grammy award-winning musician Gary Smulyan was a fourth-grader, he learned to play the saxophone, he told Maple Elementary School students last week.

What a mess! Winter storm blankets Valley, kills power to thousands

jlowe — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 -0500

NORTHAMPTON - Fallout from Wednesday's shifting precipitation included closed schools, homes and businesses without power, flooded streets, damaged vehicles and backs made to ache from shoveling the miserable stuff. As heavy, wet snow and the soaking rain that follow it brought down tree limbs and power lines, more than 14,000 Western Massachusetts Electric Co. customers lost power, almost half of them in Hampshire County. And power to some customers may not be restored until Thursday.
--Watch GazetteNET's video report on the storm

Hampshire COG seeks renaissance

Richie Davis — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:06:28 -0500

The Franklin and Hampshire councils of governments - COGs, as they're known - are different animals, like the different county governments from which they grew.

Now Hampshire COG, representing only a dozen of the smaller 20 Hampshire County towns, has launched a strategic planning process to figure out whether it should try to be more like its larger counterpart to the north.

Briefs

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00:00 -0500

Briefs

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 -0500

Briefs

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 -0500

Young students share day with their grandparents

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0500

As a way of advancing the local Parent Teacher Organization's goal of bringing more of the school's children's home lives into the classroom, students at Westhampton Elementary School had the opportunity to bring their grandparents to school for the first time last week. It was an experiment that school officials said turned out to be just as fun for the seniors as their grandchildren.