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By STEVE PFARRER

Kelly Link has piled up quite a few accolades and honors over the years: a MacArthur “genius grant,” a Pulitzer Prize nomination, several awards for fantasy fiction — a Hugo, a World Fantasy, and three Nebulas — and the kind of praise writers dream...

By STEVE PFARRER

As part of a funding program for municipal and nonprofit performing arts centers, the Massachusetts Cultural Council is awarding over $150,000 to 10 arts organizations and centers in the Valley.The awards — part of $3.66 million in funding the MCC is...

By STEVE PFARRER

On the U.S.-Mexican border, a desperate mother sends her young daughter alone across a bridge over the Rio Grande to try make it into Texas. In New York City, a Jewish woman confronts the hole in her heart when she thinks of her former Muslim husband,...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — One of South Hadley’s most popular parks will undergo a second round of renovations later this year thanks to a $500,000 state grant the town received last month. The town intends to use the money to expand and upgrade Buttery Brook...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Tower Theaters received a $30,000 grant as part of an effort to save independent movie theaters — an industry hit hard financially by the pandemic and the two strikes in Hollywood.“Many industries were hit over the time, but we had a...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The city’s public library has stood on Park Street for over 140 years, but that could soon change as officials pursue state funding to move and revamp services in a new space.As part of that process, the board has been gathering...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — As call volume and service demands increase, a $1.5 million federal grant will allow the Easthampton Fire Department to hire four additional firefighters by next spring.The nationally competitive Department of Homeland Security’s...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — As demand for services increases, $565,000 in federal grants will put the Easthampton Fire Department on its way to replacing old equipment including a brush truck, air filling system, and self-contained breathing apparatus.“When you...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON – Growing up surrounded by corn and beans in rural Iowa, Leah Nichole Ewing would wake up early to the chirps and songs of birds.Her window overlooked the outer edge of the woods where she spent her childhood exploring and enjoying the...

By STEVE PFARRER

In recent years, David Wax Museum, which mixes Americana influences with pop music and traditional Mexican folk sounds, had spent a lot of time recording a new album, “You Must Change Your Life,” that the group — the husband and wife duo of David Wax...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — Mass Humanities has awarded over $160,000 to five cultural organizations in the Valley to help them sustain or increase their staffing, the larger goal being to help those groups “create, restore and grow humanities programs.”The grants...

By STEVE PFARRER

In 2019, Felipe Salles put the finishing touches on an ambitious project: an extended composition that blended jazz, Latin American music, and classical elements, all of it based on interviews he’d conducted with younger immigrants about what it was...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — The orange-and-black former Harley-Davidson building is being considered as a temporary processing facility for legal immigrant families and others who might be displaced because of a natural disaster. Town Administrator Ed Gibson said...

By REBECA PEREIRA

Four generations of Deerfield fruit farmers have stewarded the land at Clarkdale Fruit Farms for more than a century, harvesting an heirloom apple variety that measures just around 1 inch in diameter, a bite-sized Lady apple most popular among the...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Since immigrating to the Pioneer Valley from Venezuela last year, Biani Salas has faced many of the obstacles that so many in her situation find in the United States: racism, workplace discrimination, language barriers and difficulty...