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By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — With the South County Senior Center’s future home being narrowed down to two locations soon, the center held an open house Wednesday morning to solicit feedback.Deerfield, Sunderland and Whately residents were invited to the South County...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Weeks after narrowing down the search for a potential future home for the South County Senior Center to either the South Deerfield Congregational Church or the Whately Town Offices, the feasibility study’s Deerfield aspect has...

By DOMENIC POLI

WORCESTER — The MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center’s executive director is being sued by a former co-worker alleging she has lost out on consulting contracts because of damaging information spread by her ex-colleague.Maura Geary is the first...

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — With help from the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Easthampton Council on Aging is reimagining what the future of aging looks like in the city. In a series of three forums this week, community members...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — As the revived Center School Committee awaits word on a $600,000 grant, the Community Preservation Committee is recommending up to $96,038 in grant matching money for an extensive project that would see the 114-year-old building’s roof...

By CAROLYN BROWN

The Northampton Center for the Arts recently announced the appointment of Kelly Silliman and Heather Geoffrey as its new co-directors.Silliman, a dancer and educator, was program director at the Center since 2017, prior to stepping into her new role....

By CHRIS LARABEE

AMHERST — With 30 years of work in the valley and around the world, the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding is welcoming people from around the region to celebrate three decades of community-based work.To highlight the nonprofit’s work, the Karuna Center...

How time flies“I got sober in 1990 at age twenty-seven. A few years later, I started writing songs.” That’s how singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier begins the liner notes of her soon-to-be reissued, highly acclaimed album, “Drag Queens in Limousines,”...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Music from centuries-old folk songs and contemporary and classical tunes emanates through the hallway at the Bangs Community Center on a recent morning, as some of the autoharp players hold the instrument upright against their shoulders and below...

By BILLY SPITZER

We are all experiencing the impacts of climate change more each day, in our own communities and around the world. Recent data from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication shows that 72% of Americans understand that climate change is real,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Have you ever wanted to figure out your family’s lineage but didn’t know where, or how, to start? If so, you may be in luck with the Sunderland Public Library’s upcoming Introduction to Genealogy series.Beginning Sept. 10, the library is partnering...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — With two successful years behind it, the South County Senior Center’s Informational Fair & Cruise Night returns to the community for its third installment.With food, vintage vehicles and more than 16 community partners, the Senior Center is...

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

EASTHAMPTON — When Marie Andrades lived in Haiti, she worked as a nurse. Now, sheltering with her mother and baby in Northampton, she is looking to find employment where she can make use of her transferable skills.“I [studied] nursing in Haiti. I have...

By BOB FLAHERTY

‘I have lived my life! I’m not afraid of anything and I’ll sleep in my own bed, me and my aching bones.”So declares the 82-year-old woman from her apartment in Kyiv as Russian bombs explode in the streets all around her — the ongoing toll of Vladimir...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — After three site visits, the South County Senior Center Board of Oversight and its director sat down with architecture firm edmStudio to lay out their desires for a future home for the Senior Center.The Board of Oversight, Director...

By PAIGE HANSON

Earlier this week, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center announced its lineup of performances for its 2024-2025 season, which includes quite a few notable offerings, including “a one-time Grateful Dead keyboardist, two of the...

By DAVID SPECTOR

In summer, many New England roads are lined with clouds of magenta flowers atop the tall stems of several species of Joe Pye weed, especially where the roads are bordered by damp ditches. Who was Joe Pye? A perusal of popular botanical sources reveals...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding hosted a virtual discussion on Wednesday during which activists reflected on the state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shared ideas for community building and future peace efforts. Karuna Center...

By STEVE PFARRER

When folk rockers Eavesdrop and singer-songwriter Grayson Ty come to the Iron Horse on June 28, the fellow Valley artists won’t just be sharing the bill: They’ll be celebrating a reunion of sorts, looking back to the night a little over eight years...

Pulling at the roots: Plays cover 3 centuries of city history — againNORTHAMPTON — Last August, Historic Northampton presented a new way of examining some chapters of city history by staging three short plays at the museum, including two that took...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — With a grant extension in hand, the Deerfield Selectboard has selected edmSTUDIO, a Unionville, Connecticut-based architecture firm, to conduct a feasibility study to help the South County Senior Center determine an optimal site for...