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Karissa Yzerman-Gleason: Being a recipe tester is tasty work!
My mission was to cook from three different recipes in “The Good to Go Cookbook,” by Kathleen Cannata Hanna, and review them. By KARISSA YZERMAN-GLEASON Herberg Middle School My mission was to cook...
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Eastworks gets ready to pop with fun
Pop-up shop participants include 'Project Runway's" Joseph Aaron Segal. Joseph Aaron Segal, a competitor on Season 11 of “Project Runway,” which premiered in January, will bring his World of Jas and...
View ArticleHorace Smith Fund offers scholarships to Hampden County students
Last year, $276,000 was awarded to 27 individuals. The Horace Smith Fund was established in 1899 by the successful and generous philanthropist named Horace Smith, co-founder of Smith & Wesson....
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Stephen Jendrysik: Aurelia Belcher MacArthur, tragic matriarch
In July 1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 71, visited his father's hometown for the first time and stopped to place flowers on the Chicopee Falls grave of his grandmother, who had died in 1864. CHICOPEE —...
View ArticleReligion notes: Mass for Mandela, global holidays, 'Magi' performance
Roundup of faith-based events in Pioneer Valley. Mass for Nelson Mandela SPRINGFIELD — The Rev. William Pomerlau will celebrate a Memorial Mass for Nelson Mandela on Dec. 8 at 5:30 p.m. at Our Lady of...
View ArticleAngels Take Flight provides children in transition with luggage
The organization recently held a fund-raiser at Meadows Lodge A.F.and A.M, in East Longmeadow. By Damaris Pérez-Pizarro dperez@repub.com Angels Take Flight has as its mission to help “restore the...
View ArticleFor 25th year, West Springfield Covenant Community Church presents live nativity
The event, featuring more than 100 people, as well as live animals, is scheduled Dec. 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the corner of Amostown and Piper roads in West Springfield. WEST SPRINGFIELD –The focus of...
View ArticleRev. Betsy Fisher: Gift of charitable donation changes lives
When we opened it, there was a note inside that read, “This gift was given to a child in need in your name.” Growing up in my family, Christmas was wonderful – lots of family around, lots of...
View Article'Faith on Tap' participants enjoy spirited, spiritual pub meet
Rev. Nathaniel S. Anderson, pastor of Christ the King Lutheran Church, in Wilbraham, hosts a monthly gathering of Christians and seekers at McLadden’s Irish Publick House, in Hampden. By Dianne B....
View ArticleJewish Community Center celebrates release of "Our Stories: The Jews of...
On Dec. 12, all of the books in the Heritage series including, "The Irish Legacy," "The Struggle for Freedom," "Our Stories," and "Nuestra Historia," will be sold at the International Biergarten, 1600...
View ArticleAgawam High School bands plan winter concert
The concert will feature a wide variety of music. The bands’ traditional medley of holiday tunes will conclude the concert. AGAWAM – The public is invited to the Agawam High School Bands’ fifth annual...
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Springfield family behind Big Daddy Boomerangs
Jeffrey LeBeau has a patent pending one of his boomerang designs. He hasn’t quit his day job yet, but a Springfield engineer is hoping to grow his grass roots boomerang business. Jeffrey LeBeau, an...
View ArticleHow to cope with friends' out-of-control kids at holiday time
Leslie Sexer, of Family Center, in Fairfield County, Conn., said holiday gatherings unravel the most stoic adults, so take that into consideration with kids By LEANNE ITALIE NEW YORK — He's the...
View ArticleKate Roy's Mom's View: What do Moms know . . .
Kids learn tough lessons through experience. “Live and learn” – it’s one of those sayings I find myself repeating often these days. It seems even as my children get older, they’re not necessarily...
View ArticleHolyoke Medical Birth Center's Brian Couchon 'Nurse of the Year'
Nominated by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, he was chosen for the March of Dimes award from a field of 75 competitors. HOLYOKE –Brian A. Couchon worked in the...
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UNlisted's Tiffany Morales: Student athletes deserve our praise
When it comes to being a student athlete, physical and mental toughness are keys to success. By TIFFANY MORALES High School of Commerce Are the demands of sports, school and home too much at times for...
View ArticleReligion notes: Book reading, dinner dance, Blue Christmas services
Roundup of faith-based events. Editor's note: The following events were scheduled, prior to the area being put under a Winter Storm Watch. Book reading HOLYOKE _ The Holyoke Congregation Sons of Zion,...
View ArticleSeth Kellogg's Birds of the Air: Surprise ending to Cape sojourn
The ponds and beaches had sated our taste for ducks, but the Cape Cod countryside also affords good looks at other birds. Winter has come to Cape Cod, but the ice has not. Many ducks have come as...
View ArticleUNlisted's Lauren Padilla: Gift cards sometimes best option
I'd certainly rather have a gift card that a wooden reindeer figure. By LAUREN PADILLA Longmeadow High The holidays can be wonderful . . . they can also be stressful. Perhaps the most hectic aspect of...
View ArticleKate Roy's Mom's View: A brave little chicken saves the rest
Kids learn about the adventures of raising farm animals. Back in the spring, my husband and I decided to forge ahead with a long-thought-about plan to start raising chickens. Recently, our beloved...
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