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  Over 100 attend session on post-BID downtown

  By CHAD CAIN Daily Hampshire Gazette Staff Writer NORTHAMPTON — Signaling a desire to close the book on the controversial Northampton Business...

• Police/Fire

  Trial starts in alleged murder-for-hire case

  DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A felon with a long rap sheet testified yesterday that a woman paid him...

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  Funeral held for former bishop Maguire

  SPRINGFIELD (AP) — A retired bishop of the western Massachusetts Roman Catholic diocese, criticized for his handling of clergy sex abuse, was...

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  Panel: Huge pay hike for governor, officials

  STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — An advisory board yesterday recommended increasing the Massachusetts governor’s total pay by nearly $100,000 a...

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  ‘Politics of justice’ coming to Westfield

  WESTFIELD – Westfield State University will host author Joan Biskupic on Tuesday, December 9, at 7 p.m. in Scanlon Banquet Hall. Joan...

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  Councilor Harris: my upcoming tax shift vote

  I will vote for the best possible outcome for the Westfield homeowner at the City Council tax shift meeting on Thursday. I...

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  Health

  Seven warning signs that an older relative could use more support

  I have found over my many years working in the senior living industry that holiday visits are often a wake-up call for...

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  Entertainment

  Arts Beat

  Home for the Follidays More than 100 choral voices of the Springfield Symphony chorus, an audience sing-along, and a chorus line of...

• Sports

  WSU tops Union

  SCHENECTADY, NY — Grant Cooper posted a double double with 20 points and 11 rebounds as Westfield State defeated Union, 88-82 in...

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  Coakley keeps working despite narrow loss

  STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Attorney General Martha Coakley appears determined to wrap up her eight years as the state’s...

• Westfield Newsroom

  Report: state boards met without quorums

  BOSTON (AP) — Four Massachusetts licensing boards cast hundreds of votes during meetings that were held without a majority of members present,...

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  From the desk of Stefan Czaporowski…

  It’s been another busy fall season for the Westfield Vocational Technical High School (WVTHS) community, and I’m eager to share some of...