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By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — After five years of little to no progress redeveloping the former Bardwell Library property into condominiums, the Select Board decided to investigate legal options against the developer for breach of contract.

I am writing to alert the citizens of South Hadley to the continuation of the public hearing on the proposed Energy Center of Mount Holyoke College, at the corner of Dunlap Place and Woodbridge Street. This hearing will be before the Planning Board on Monday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Senior Center and virtually.

At last Wednesday’s town hall with U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern at UMass Amherst, university community members asked specific, thoughtful questions; meanwhile, all McGovern’s answers were platitudes about the power we the people have and jokes about Russian influence. Enough. We know Donald Trump is a disaster and we are asking what Ywill do; all our elected representatives can offer is “Trump bad” and “we are holding a lot of town halls.” We need our elected leaders putting themselves on the line with real action, like Sen. Van Hollen traveling to El Salvador. Anything less is cowardice. At least McGovern admitted in response to what Congress is doing to protect due process: “not a goddamn thing.” And that’s what McGovern offered us in his town hall, too.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — April showers bring May flowers, but foliage isn’t the only thing blooming in South Hadley after a windy winter and early spring rain.

By EMILEE KLEIN

For the last two years, the Hitchcock Center for the Environment has aimed to help more than 1,000 third graders in Springfield Public Schools envision themselves as scientists and engineers.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Incumbents captured most of the votes in Tuesday’s annual town elections, which featured few contested races and drew only 1,552, or 5.79%, of registered voters to the polls.

Trump no longer remembers his campaign promise to reduce the price of groceries. He only remembers he talked a lot about groceries on the campaign trail. He now says he thinks the word, groceries, is quaint. Who knew?

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The town will break ground next week on a second round of renovations for Buttery Brook Park that will further expand recreational offerings with the addition of more pickleball courts, a disc golf course and a band shell, among other items.

I write in response to Lundy Bancroft’s March 14 letter “Negotiate, don’t escalate,” which uncritically echoes the counterfactual talking points of the Russo-Ukrainian War’s unconditional aggressor: Russia under the authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADELY — It’s shaping up to be a quiet election season in town this year, with a host of incumbents or newcomers running unopposed and only two contested races in District 1.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley and Ludlow are organizing municipal and school leaders, students and community members from at least eight communities to attend a hearing Monday at UMass to persuade the state Legislature’s House and Ways Means Committee to support altering the state’s municipal education funding formula.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Holyoke Rotary Club will give South Hadley residents a chance to honor their personal heroes during its Flags for Heroes fundraiser from May 17 to July 5 on the South Hadley Commons.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Select Board is reluctantly supporting a $58 million budget that will be presented at annual Town Meeting this spring, with members acknowledging that the spending plan for next fiscal year does not meet the needs of residents.

By EMILEE KLEIN

LUDLOW — A new regional energy manager will guide decarbonization and sustainable energy efforts for 15 communities in Hampshire and Hampden counties as part of a collaboration to bring down energy costs.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — As a former Girl Scout, Celia Overby hoped her 6-year-old daughter would find a sense of self, responsibility and community with a local troop just as she did during her childhood, but no troop in the area was accepting new scouts her daughter’s age.

While I appreciate Gazette columnist J.M. Sorrell’s honest look into her own roots, as well as her commitment to fighting antisemitism, her column “Jewish neshamah” [March 5] essentially endorses the idea that any criticism of Israel is tantamount to hatred of Jews.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley will expand its urban canopy over the next two years through the Environmental Justice Tree Planting Program, an initiative that calls for planting 400 trees to replace old trees and boost the town’s climate resilience.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTH HADLEY — Despite Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School administrators finding no wrongdoing by a middle school teacher, following a six-week investigation into sexual misconduct allegations that led to his removal from the classroom last fall, students concerned about his continued presence on campus staged a walkout demanding his termination Monday morning.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Danielle Kelly has offered supplemental reading instruction for almost 500 South Hadley students since starting at the district in 2006, preventing 95% of students from needing special education reading supports and boosting literacy rates.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Veteran Michael Slater left the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday night feeling like he witnessed the taping of an episode of “The Jerry Springer Show” — a long-running tabloid talk show known for its sensationalistic topics — rather than a presidential address.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — The state’s acting education commissioner is recommending a 100-student increase in the enrollment at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, which would allow the school to have as many as 684 K-12 students at its existing 317 Russell St. campus and a second campus on Venture Way.