Medical notes around the Valley: Quit smoking, breastfeeding help, pet care app
Roundup of events related to a healthy lifestyles. Stop smoking HOLYOKE - Holyoke Medical Center will hold a quit smoking workshop series, offering six, one-hour classes, designed to give attendees...
View ArticleChester Elementary students help Holyoke Soldiers' Home residents
Sam Slattery said that it felt really great to help the soldiers, because they have also helped us. CHESTER - Board games, decks of cards, reading glasses, and hundreds of personal care items were...
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Springfield native Carmen Garner hopes to inspire at-risk youth with new memoir
"From That To This" chronicles Garner's youth growing up in Springfield as a troubled young man with the will and determination to succeed. SPRINGFIELD - Carmen Garner is helping at-risk youth...
View ArticleWestfield Athenaeum Boys' and Girls' Library welcomes short-story contest...
Students in Grades 1 through 12 are eligible to submit one short story by March 1. WESTFIELD - The Westfield Athenaeum Boys' and Girls' Library will host its annual short story contest beginning Feb....
View ArticleBaystate's Mini-Medical School heads to Northampton
Will be held at the Northampton Senior Center, starting Feb. 12. Baystate Medical Center will bring its Mini-Medical School to Northampton, for the first time, when it holds its spring session,...
View ArticleQuilting, for Springfield's Barbara Stroup, an artistic passion
She enjoys making creations with texture, dimension. Her largest hand-made quilt measured nearly 8-feet square. Quilter Barbara Stroup views her craft as more than just sewing together fabric shapes...
View ArticleFinding love, not aging, in being called 'Grandma'
One writer envisioned hair buns and aprons in the term 'grandma' until she discovered its meaning to her granddaughter. By PATRICIA P. MARTIN If you have children, you know the task of naming your...
View ArticleSeth Kellogg's Birds of the Air: Time to spot tundra birds in the valley
The raptors of the meadows generally ignore trees. After entertaining flocks of people, the snowy owl in Deerfield has disappeared, but other raptors have been haunting the meadows in the Pioneer...
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UNlisted's Lauren Padilla: Put that best leg forward (when wearing tights)
No other accessory walks the line between frumpy and fantastic like a pair of tights. By LAUREN PADILLA Longmeadow High No other accessory walks the line between frumpy and fantastic like a pair of...
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UNlisted's Karissa Yzerman-Gleason: A makeup how-to for a pretty everyday look
Makeup is one of those things that make our very imperfect lives a tiny bit less imperfect. By KARISSA YZERMAN-GLEASON Herberg Middle School Makeup is one of those things that make our very imperfect...
View ArticleSuper Bowl food vendors tackle hunger as Seahawks meet Broncos
Super Bowl Sunday is said to be the biggest party day of the year, and area vendors are prepared to tackle fans' hunger. Super Bowl Sunday is said to be the biggest party day of the year, and area...
View ArticleToni Morrison to speak at UMass
Morrison, activist Bernice Reagon Johnson and poet Sonia Sanchez will discuss "Black Women in the Arts in the 21st Century." AMHERST -- Three prominent African-American artists — Nobel Prize-winning...
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Kirk Smith, CEO of YMCA of Greater Springfield: Being right vs. doing right
Doing right is hard. It’s often more difficult to have tough conversations than it is to simply walk away. Kirk Smith is president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Springfield. By KIRK SMITH Think back...
View ArticleSomers High School announces honor roll for first quarter
Somers High School announced its honor roll list for the first quarter of the 2013-2014 school year. SOMERS – Somers High School has announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the school year....
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Courtney Gabinetti of Southwick-Tolland Regional High School wins top honors...
The event is designed to give high school students the opportunity to engage in the legislative process firsthand and stimulate an interest in the process of government. SPRINGFIELD - Courtney...
View ArticleGateway Regional gardening students win Massachusetts Agriculture in the...
The project was designed by teacher Michele Klemaszewski, although her students planned the budget, researched prices and materials, and determined the food that would be grown. HUNTINGTON - Gateway...
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Kathryn Mauke, of Sabis International Charter School, wins second place at...
More than 200 high school students attended this year's Model Congress Jan. 9 through 11. SPRINGFIELD - Kathryn Mauke, of Sabis International Charter School, won the second place prize at the 74th...
View ArticleTextile artisan Barbara Parry authors 'Adventures in Yarn Farming'
From lambing to caring for the sheep to shearing to preparing the fiber for yarn, the book includes stories and practical tips on operating an organic fiber farm. SHELBURNE –For Barbara N. Parry, a...
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Napolitan home passes on its history
The historic house once owned by internationally known political strategist, the late Joseph J. Napolitan, was sold to a Springfield family in 2012. Yvonne Campbell was looking to move from her Carew...
View ArticleSeth Kellogg's Birds of the Air: Cool birds, like barn owl, warm the soul
An outing to Rhode Island proves fruitful. An amazing array of ducks is usually the star attraction on any trip to the winter coast. The last weekend of January in Rhode Island, the birds were rivaled...
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