The Westfield News
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Companies can’t find skilled workers
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts business group is calling for changes in the state’s education system in light of a report that...
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Minimum wage bill hits delay at Statehouse
STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Efforts to raise the state’s minimum wage have hit a snag. On Thursday, a House...
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Jobless rate falls to 6.5 percent, below US
BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts unemployment rate dropped back below the national average in February and the state added an estimated 3,800...
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Group challenges New England energy coordination
STEPHEN SINGER, Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Boston environmental group is challenging how energy policy is coordinated by New England’s...
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Berry to speak at Rotary Club
WESTFIELD – This week’s meeting of The Rotary Club of Westfield will feature, as a guest speaker, Patrick Berry, owner of The...
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Columbia Gas cites urgent need
SPRINGFIELD – Massachusetts Good Neighbor Energy Fund sponsor, Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, is appealing to local residents to consider a donation to...
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Trooper refutes woman’s claim
WESTFIELD – A sobbing woman telling a state trooper that her father had verbally abused her and her husband stopped crying abruptly...
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Fisher misses ballot
BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Delegates to the Republican state convention strongly backed Charlie Baker for their party’s gubernatorial nomination...
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Casino foes ask court to allow repeal effort
BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Attorney General Martha Coakley erred in excluding from the November state ballot a question that...
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Fox seeks re-election
SOUTHWICK – Russell S. Fox has been serving the town of Southwick since high school and continues that service today as the...
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Track trumps graduation tradition
SOUTHWICK – Students at Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional High School look forward each year to the tradition of “walking the hill” to graduation. This...
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Worthington home rule bill debated
HUNTINGTON – State Senator Benjamin B. Downing (D-Pittsfield) was at Stanton Hall last night, to hear his constituents’ thoughts and to share...
