Silent prayer time set, upcoming race-walk renamed for victims of Boston...
Service will mark one-week anniversary of April 15 tragedy. Robert Bakoian, 38, of Boston, reflects near a makeshift memorial on Boylston Street on April 17, 2013, in Boston. The city continues to...
View ArticleYouth remain most at risk for sexually transmitted disease
April is STD Awareness Month Dr. Katharine O. White, above, is chief of general obstetrics and gynecology at Baystate Medical Center. Submitted ÂWhen you think about sexually transmitted diseases,...
View ArticleEasthampton High School artists to show works at 6th annual arts festival
The festival will open on May 2 from 4 to 7 p.m. The work will be exhibited throughout the Old Town Hall, 43 Main St., in the Elusie Gallery, ECA+ Gallery, and in the corridor of the building that...
View ArticleLongmeadow Educational Excellence Foundation helps Williams Middle School...
The Drama Club, under the direction of math teacher Kathleen Lawson, has received $18,200 since its inception in 2003. Kelly Tabb, left, and Cammi Barkett rehearse a scene from the Williams Middle...
View ArticleSpringfield's Friends of the Homeless staff and volunteers team up daily to...
This choreography happens in a space worthy of any top chef. It takes 96 cans of household-size tuna to make lunch. Scott Rubel, a first-time volunteer from the Inclusion & Diversity Group at...
View ArticleReligion notes: 'Soul to Soul' concert, German supper and 'Fisherman's...
Temple Beth El is celebrating its 100th year with a gala concert, “Soul to Soul: Yiddish and African-American Music Meet in a Celebration of Two Cultures,” on April 28 Ground was broken on April 13...
View ArticleInterfaith program to incorporate prayers, collection for bombing victims
Part of program on common ground among faiths. The Boston Red Sox stand during tribute to Boston Marathon bombing victims, including Chinese student Lingzi Lu, before a baseball game against the...
View ArticleClassical Greek salad gets jazzed up with cukes, radishes and dried cherry...
Cookbook author David Hagedorn offers several variations. Greek salad saladWashington Post photo DAVID HAGEDORN Washington Post The Greek salad is a pretty simple affair that represents Mediterranean...
View ArticleSpringfield Housing Authority Farris Mitchell Scholarship applications due May 1
Begun in 1995, the scholarship was named after a man who lived for many years with his wife and 10 children at Riverview Apartments in the Brightwood section of the city. Farris Mitchell, who died in...
View ArticleAAA Driving School offers classes at East Longmeadow High School
A four-week session of classroom instruction will be held at the high school beginning on May 6. AAA Driving School is now offering its driver's education program to students attending East Longmeadow...
View ArticleMedical notes from around the Pioneer Valley: Nan Lanning knits her 1,000...
Caregiver nominations sought. Britney L. Skiff, of Erving, holds her son, Domenic D. Rindone, born on April 20 at 7 pounds, 14 ounces at Cooley Dickinson's Childbirth Center in Northampton, with...
View ArticleProject CANVAS seeks to help area Vietnamese-American youth retain family,...
UMass-Amherst collaborative with Springfield Vietnamese Civic Association looks to help youth succeed overall. Participants in Project CANVAS, a collaboration between the University of Massachusetts...
View ArticlePublic Television's Sara Moulton to highlight WGBY's Asparagus Festival and Gala
Chef Sara Moulton, host of Public Television's “Sara’s Weeknight Meals,” will be among the participants in WGBY-Public Television for Western New England's Asparagus Festival and Gala on June 2 and...
View ArticleCitizens' Scholarship Foundation of Westfield: George and Margaret Beglane...
The scholarship memorializes Margaret, the foundation for the growth and development of her 10 children, 21 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, and George, a firefighter and avid sports fan and...
View ArticleWounded war journalist Bob Woodruff among participants on panel in Hadley...
Discussion to focus in part on how returning iveterans can be better served. Lee and Bob Woodruff will participate in a panel discussion, following the presentation of an adaptation in Hadley of the...
View ArticleHomeward Vets continues to help veterans furnish homes, thanks to donation of...
Furniture drop-offs welcome at its Ludlow warehouse. Dave Felty (center) is president and chief executive officer of Homeward Vets, Inc. He is flanked here by board member Bruce Nicol, left, and...
View ArticleSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts affiliate sponsor of...
Scholarship program will be specifically for Massachusetts students receiving national Scholastic Awards. 2013 Spriangfield Central High School Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards recipients from left...
View ArticleMassachusetts' four medical schools get $100,000 from medical society
Middlesex District gives money for students in unanticipated financial emergency. The Middlesex District Medical Society has announced the contribution of $100,000 to each of the four Massachusetts...
View ArticleReligion notes: Climate conference, time capsule buried, psychic fair
Roundup of faith-based events. The Right Rev. Douglas Fisher, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, is among the participants in Climate Revival.Submitted Climate Revival The Rev....
View ArticleThe Wherehouse? in Holyoke is James A. Curran's lifetime collection of Paper...
Officially a banquet and function facility, The Wherehouse? is somewhat of an unofficial museum for Holyoke. HOLYOKE –Visitors to James A. Curran's The Wherehouse? will find a veritable feast of...
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