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Hilltown shepherd: Church pays tribute to the Rev. Philbrick, who for 30 years has been a community cornerstone
02-02-2025 3:01 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — The Rev. Stephen Philbrick’s congregation knows him as a man of stories. But the story they came to hear at a recent Sunday service was that of Philbrick himself.

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Therapeutic learning: J.S. Bryant School at Cummington Inn will serve LGBTQIA+ youth
01-28-2025 5:28 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — J.S. Bryant School will welcome its first student body next September in the former Cummington Inn — offering a private school setting specifically aimed at welcoming LGBTQIA+ high schoolers struggling in their current academic environment.


$11M in state grants to flow to region
10-27-2024 2:40 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Pedestrian safety and utility infrastructure improvements totaling $4.4 million for an affordable housing development in Easthampton, $1.94 million to build a new roundabout in Amherst at the edge of the University of Massachusetts...


Building community: Cummington Supply celebrates 50th year
10-24-2024 3:53 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — There aren’t any hardware stores for Hilltown residents for about a 20-mile radius — except for Cummington Supply, which offers construction resources “from the concrete foundation up till right before the cabinets go in,” according to a...


Saving a historic barn: Couple who own former Gurney Farm repurpose antique structure, move it closer to their house
09-10-2024 4:03 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — An over 200-year-old barn at one of the town’s oldest former farms will be entering a new phase of its history, as its owners uplift and outfit the structure into a “functional” space.Built between 1812 and 1818 and originally designed...


Photos: A night at the Cummington Fair
08-25-2024 11:55 AM


Local history museums unite for one day: Third annual Hilltown History Trail welcomes visitors from near and far, Aug. 3
07-26-2024 3:48 PM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

The Hilltown History Trail was started out of a desire to enable community members to access the rich and thoughtful local history museums often open only a few hours per week. It is returning for its third year the first Saturday in August, despite...


Cummington officials rally support for resuse of old elementary school
07-19-2024 4:06 PM

By JAMES PENTLAND

CUMMINGTON — Plans for the reuse of the town’s old elementary school are at a pivotal stage, with a $1 million state grant hanging in the balance and another $1 million federal grant set to fund the first phase of redevelopment.Select Board members...


Cummington Town Meeting OKs new police cruiser, adds full-time officer position
05-25-2024 2:31 PM

CUMMINGTON — Voters at Town Meeting approved a $2.7 million budget and a new police cruiser, but deferred action on the revised Central Berkshire School District agreement until a special Town Meeting next month.The $75,000 cruiser and the change to a...


Guest columnist Larry Hott: ‘Daughter of Cummington’ brings stories to the stage
05-23-2024 7:54 PM

By LARRY HOTT

In 1945, the U.S. Office of War information came to Cummington to shoot “The Cummington Story,” a propaganda film about tolerance and acceptance of immigrants.The people of the small western Massachusetts hilltown had several European refugees living...


Rosemary Seifert-Graf: Oppose state’s new clean heat standard
04-11-2024 4:17 PM

I have learned that a new regulation is being worked on by the Massachusetts Department of Environment Protection called the “clean heat standard.” As a homeowner, I am asking that all Massachusetts homeowners oppose this regulation because it will...


Guest columnist Katy Eiseman: Must stop subsidizing wood-fired energy
04-05-2024 3:08 PM

By KATY EISEMAN

 The Massachusetts Legislature is considering a bill that would once again increase subsidies for burning wood, taking the state in the wrong direction in the name of “clean” energy.Biomass energy has been a controversial topic in Massachusetts for...


Dr. E. Martin Schotz: Mainstream corporate news media not the place to stay informed
03-06-2024 6:10 PM

Lyle Denit has written a reply to my guest column [”Rethinking U.S. interests on anniversary of war in Ukraine,” Gazette, Feb. 23] criticizing my view on the causes of the war in Ukraine [”Ukraine deserves a better kind of peace,” Gazette, March 2]....


Guest columnist Dr. E. Martin Schotz: Rethinking U.S. interests on anniversary of war in Ukraine
02-22-2024 5:11 PM

By DR. E. MARTIN SCHOTZ

With the approaching second anniversary of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, we can expect that there will be various solutions offered to the current war there. On one side there will be calls for billions more in U.S. and NATO military aid to...


Guest columnist Dr. E. Martin Schotz: No security for all — We got exactly the ‘peace’ Kennedy rejected
07-28-2023 4:32 PM

By DR. E MARTIN SCHOTZ

“And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights — the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation — the right to breathe air as nature provided it — the right of future generations to a healthy existence?” —...


Handmade work in the hills: Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour returns this weekend
07-27-2023 3:10 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

If you show it, they will come.That’s been something of a mantra over the years for a group of Hilltown potters who joined forces to open their studios over a weekend and invite customers and art lovers in, both to see the wares and get a view of how...


JAM Fund hosting Grand Fundo fundraising ride at Cummington Fairgrounds in July
06-26-2023 2:48 PM

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The JAM Fund, a Pioneer Valley-based professional cycling development organization, is hosing a fundraising ride Sunday, July 23 at the Cummington Fairgrounds.Money raised from the ride will go to the non-profit’s development program and providing...


Cummington resident who died in fire lived a quiet life, had a smile to ‘light up a room’
05-12-2023 1:37 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

CUMMINGTON — To most of their neighbors, not much was known about Jaye Brink and Shannon Haddock, the residents of the house on 9 Thayer Road that burned down on April 28. The two often kept to themselves, only leaving the home to go to work or get...


One person killed, another seriously injured in Cummington blaze 
04-28-2023 5:56 PM

By JAMES PENTLAND 

CUMMINGTON — An early morning fire claimed one adult resident’s life and injured another, state and local fire officials said Friday.“On behalf of the Cummington Fire Department, I want to express our heartfelt condolences to the victim’s family,”...


Westhampton Dems to hold caucus Thursday
03-09-2022 9:29 PM

By BERA DUNAU

WESTHAMPTON — Town Democrats will hold a party caucus Thursday, giving them a voice in the selection of candidates for governor and other statewide offices. However, eight other Hampshire County communities will not be sending caucus delegates to the...


Hilltown police forces in transition
07-06-2021 7:55 PM

By BERA DUNAU

Policing is changing in the hilltowns, and more change is on the horizon.Both Worthington and Plainfield moved to having full-time chiefs this year. Chesterfield and Goshen are considering regionalizing their police departments after the chiefs in...

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