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Julie Pokela and Elizabeth Denny: The better Hatfield we know
10-16-2024 7:10 PM

We were dismayed to read about the Hatfield family being harassed for their political views [“‘We do not want your kind here,’” Gazette, Oct. 14]. We moved to Hatfield in 2020 and wondered how we’d be accepted as a lesbian couple. We love living here...

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Hatfield selects new town administrator
10-16-2024 1:53 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — A Massachusetts native with extensive experience in finance and government, currently serving as the chief of staff for Newburyport’s mayor, will be Hatfield’s next town administrator.Select Board Chair Diana Szynal announced during...


Hatfield may move sixth grade to Smith Academy next school year
10-15-2024 2:07 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — Sixth graders could shift to Smith Academy from Hatfield Elementary School beginning in fall 2025 if a plan proposed by administrators, in part aimed at stemming enrollment declines across the school district, is approved by the Hatfield...


‘We do not want your kind here’: Hatfield family receives anonymous letters about yard signs, political views
10-13-2024 2:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — Since moving to Hatfield in summer 2021, Dr. Timothy Menz has made his views known on a variety of topics, speaking at a Board of Health meeting about the importance of masking as a means of reducing the spread of COVID that first year,...


$1M in grants to repair regional dams flow to region
10-11-2024 8:42 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Repair and removal of existing dams in Hampshire and Franklin counties, along with improvements to Holyoke’s levee control system and repairs to the pump station, are being supported by more than $1.04 million from the state’s Executive...


Hatfield Historical Society to honor longtime curator
10-11-2024 8:26 AM

By Scott Merzbach

HATFIELD — A final open day for the Farm Museum on Saturday will also serve as a way to honor longtime curator George Ashley, who has overseen the Hatfield Historical Society’s agricultural collection for more than 30 years.From noon to 2 p.m., Ashley...


Annie and Jim Greco: Question 5 a ‘trick question,’ vote ‘no’
10-08-2024 8:56 PM

One Fair Wage has lobbied and succeeded to bring Question 5 to vote in our state of Massachusetts. Please ask any tipped worker that you encounter before the Nov. 5 vote and listen carefully to their opinion regarding Question 5 and how it would...


Jewish community marks 1-year anniversary of Oct. 7 attack, honoring those killed and praying for hostages
10-08-2024 4:54 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, Ronny Almog awoke and checked Facebook and Israeli news on his computer and quickly realized something was wrong.“I called my mom in Israel, and I told her, it seems like there is a very intense war,” said Almog, who...


Western Mass farmers battle ‘pumpkin plague’
09-30-2024 12:27 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERIand SAMUEL GELINAS

Some squash, pumpkin and potato farmers in the Pioneer Valley are bearing the burden of a soil-based disease described by one farmer as being “like the plague” for these and potentially many more species.Walking through a barren pumpkin patch late...


Four in running to be Hatfield town administrator
09-29-2024 2:31 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — A Northampton native with municipal management experience in Pennsylvania, a chief of staff for the city of Newburyport, and two Hatfield residents, including one who is currently town coordinator in Westhampton and another who is a former...


New signalized crosswalks on way to Route 5 in Hatfield
09-02-2024 5:20 PM

By Staff Report

HATFIELD — New signalized crosswalks, part of a $2.16 million Massachusetts Department of Transportation project being undertaken in several area communities, are coming to Route 5 in Hatfield.The crosswalks are part of MassDOT’s Vulnerable Road User...


Joe Lavallee: 2024 should be Year of the Woman
08-13-2024 4:15 PM

This should really be touted as the Year of the Woman.Just now, finally half of the Olympic contestants are women! Soooo cool, and they truly kicked it in differing races and cultures and countries!We have a woman (of color and race) running for...


Area briefs: Salsa in the Park returns; Private garden tour in Holyoke; Hatfield senior selling art work
08-01-2024 3:33 PM

Northampton’s Salsa in the Park 2024 season NORTHAMPTON — Salsa in the Park kicks off next week, featuring salsa, bachata, merengue and cumbia at Pulaski Park in downtown Northampton. Salsa in the Park features McCoy Jamison, a renowned dance...


Hatfield inks one-year deal for with Northampton veterans services coverage
07-26-2024 12:49 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — Assistance for military veterans and their families, to ensure they are getting the benefits to which they are entitled, will be handled by the Central Hampshire Veteran Services in Northampton through next June.With the recent resignation...


Hatfield launches town administrator search
07-16-2024 9:51 AM

By Scott Merzbach

HATFIELD — Hatfield officials are beginning the process of finding a successor to Town Administrator Marlene Michonski, who is retiring at the end of the year after serving in the role for 18 of the past 22 years.With an advertisement recently posted...


Matt Levin: Rogue Supreme Court?
07-08-2024 4:15 PM

I trust you are as outraged as I am — or hopefully, better informed than I, you are even more outraged — by the recent rulings by the judicial body formerly known as the Supreme Court.Short of organizing a massive mass water-ballooning of the court, I...


Hatfield Historical Museum embarks on 3-year, CPA-funded project to catalogue town’s agricultural relics
07-07-2024 12:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — A 19th century sleigh used by Dr. Charles A. Byrne to make house calls to Hatfield residents during the post-Civil War years sits in a century-old tobacco barn, covered in a bit of dust, with its paint fading and metal pieces broken...


The Beat Goes On: Friends and fellow musicians reunite at the Iron Horse, an outdoor summer music series resumes in Hatfield, and more
06-27-2024 2:12 PM

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...


Hatfield earmarks last ARPA money for capital needs at Smith Academy, Senior Center
06-18-2024 12:44 PM

HATFIELD — Most of the remaining federal American Rescue Plan Act money Hatfield still has in hand will go to a series of capital projects, including improvements to Smith Academy and at the Senior Center.With around $240,000 that still must be...


Hatfield Market rapped for underage alcohol sale
06-13-2024 1:58 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — Management at a Hatfield store that sold alcohol to an underage person during a police sting last month is being advised by town officials that continued violations of state law, and lack of steps to curtail them, could lead to enforcement...


Smith Academy Class of 2024 ‘small’ and ‘mighty’
06-09-2024 2:30 PM

By Elise Linscott

HATFIELD — At Smith Academy on Friday, 19 graduates walked step by step into the Sherry A. Webb Gymnasium while “Pomp and Circumstance” played on the piano. Dressed in purple and white caps and gowns, they took their seats on the stage in front of...

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