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By SHERYL HUNTER

As we approach the end of February, the idea of sitting in the West Whately Chapel, enjoying some fine acoustic music while snacking on watermelon sounds quite appealing. And hold onto that thought because the Watermelon Wednesdays concert series is gearing up for its 2025 season, and it’s not too far away!

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — For more than eight-and-a-half decades, generations of families have come and gone through the Whately Grange 414.

CONWAY — Nomination papers for the June 12 annual town election are available at the Town Clerk’s Office through April 24.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — The town’s hiring search to fill two positions is set to begin soon, as job descriptions for the highway and building superintendent and tax collector/treasurer were approved by the Selectboard this week.

CONWAY — The Conway Historical Society will welcome Leslie Chaison, director of The People’s Medicine Project, on Tuesday, March 11, for a discussion on how plant medicine was used by both Native Americans and European colonists.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Union 38 officials presented Whately Elementary School’s largest budget request in recent years Thursday night, as required special education costs have been stacked upon the typical year-over-year increases.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional School District School Committee unanimously approved its fiscal year 2026 $13.29 million general budget Thursday evening following a sparsely attended public hearing earlier in the week.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

WHATELY — Northampton Police took a 57-year-old man from Rimrock, Arizona, into custody Tuesday morning after an 80 mph pursuit on Interstate 91 North ended with the suspect allegedly pulling a knife on police officers.

DEERFIELD — Engage Deerfield, a citizens group aiming to increase participation in town affairs, is holding its second community conversation on Thursday, Feb. 27, with this one focused on “Putting ‘Us’ in the Campus.”

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — At the first of three planned forums, town officials and consultants from edmStudio laid out the costs of two potential future homes for the South County Senior Center.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — A big increase driven by special education costs is projected in Whately Elementary School’s fiscal year 2026 budget.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Residents with thoughts on where they would like to see pollinator-centered landscape projects are encouraged to join town officials for a community forum on Thursday, Feb. 27.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

WHATELY — A 53-year-old man from Chicopee was injured after he lost control of his 2021 GMC Canyon truck traveling southbound on Interstate 91 Friday evening, according to State Police.

By ALEXA LEWIS

HATFIELD — Cannabis cultivator River Valley Growers of Hatfield is suing neighboring Whately berry farm Nourse Farms for $17 million for allegedly contaminating thousands of pounds of crops with “negligent” spraying of pesticides.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — As the South County Senior Center’s feasibility study moves forward, residents of its member towns are invited to three public forums to learn about the options being considered for a future home for the center and provide feedback.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional School District School Committee approved an additional $100,000 for its fire panel replacement project this week while also awarding a $470,030 bid to Sterling-based DMH Electric.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Ahead of the March public hearing, Frontier Regional School administrators pitched their fiscal year 2026 draft budget to the full School Committee Tuesday evening.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After receiving numerous letters against proposed graduation requirements, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee Tuesday evening tabled a measure that would require students to still pass the MCAS or a similar standardized test to graduate.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY – The town and its Police Department are investigating vandalism to Herlihy Park that damaged the baseball and soccer fields Friday night.

Letters to the editor regularly appear here declaring that nothing need be done about our rapidly warming planet. The writers no longer deny the reality of a warming planet. Instead, they argue that it isn’t our doing. The verbal jujitsu goes as follows: “Yes the climate is changing … and it always has.”