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Neal one step closer to 20th term in House By Ryan Feyre
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Fenton’s Governor’s Council bid fails Springfield City Councilor Michael Fenton failed to land a seat on the Governor’s Council.
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Neal secured 53% of the vote to Whalen’s 46%, or 46,125 votes to Whalen’s 39,714. Much like he had throughout his campaign trail, Neal touted his accomplishments as chair of the Committee on Ways and Means, the oldest tax-writing body in the House. He specifically highlighted the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the latter of which offered relief to the American
people during COVID-19, as major milestones during his most recent term. Neal also emphasized the reopening of a hospital in North Adams and the procurement of $265 million in earmarked money for a new Holyoke Soldiers Home as other major accomplishments under his tutelage. “I’ve spent my lifetime workSee NEAL on page 7
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was not always pretty for Neal. Underlying numbers suggested that the congressman lost some ground in some communities, including Holyoke, which Whalen won with 56% of the vote. However, those gains for Whalen ultimately proved futile once Neal earned major wins in Springfield (65% of the vote), Chicopee, Westfield, Agawam and Pittsfield. According to results on the NBC News website,
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U.S. Rep. Richard Neal embraces his family after defeating challenger Jeromie Whalen in the Massachusetts 1st Congressional District primary race.
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SPRINGFIELD — Uproarious applause rang throughout The Cedars banquet room on 375 Island Pond Road as Pittsfield’s numbers appeared on the NBC News telecast just before 11 p.m. Not only had U.S. Rep. Richard Neal earned 58% of the vote in the largest Berkshire County community, but he had also officially won the primary election against challenger Jeromie Whalen. Shortly thereafter, the applause turned increasingly boisterous as the crowd gave Neal a standing ovation when he and his team entered the room. Now past 11 p.m., the congressman basked in the victory, embraced his family, waved at the cameras and stood one step closer to his 20th term in the U.S. House of Representatives and seventh representing the westernmost part of the state. The only person now in his way is a familiar foe: independent candidate and aviation safety activist Nadia Milleron, whom Neal defeated in November 2024 by earning 62% of the vote. “I’m not done fighting for you,” Neal said in front of his supporters following the victory. “We’ve still got an election in November, but I know when I look at this audience, I’m yielding in your friendship, loyalty and support all of these years … let’s take it to November, reclaim the House of Representatives, and I can become chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.” Despite the victory, the night
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Fenton cites ‘geographic politics’ as Governor’s Council bid fails By Chris Maza
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SPRINGFIELD — Calling the results an illustration of “geographic politics,” Springfield City Councilor and local attorney Michael Fenton failed in his second attempt for the Eighth District seat on the Governor’s Council. Fenton conceded to incumbent Tara Jacobs, a resident of North Adams, who secured roughly 62% of the vote in the Sept. 1 state primary. With no Republican challenger on the ballot for the November general election, Jacobs earned her third term on the body that confirms the governor’s judicial nominees and approves nominations for positions such as the parole board. Fenton arrived with his husband at City Line Café in Springfield’s Hungry Hill neighborhood and told a group of supporters that included family members, former Springfield Mayor Mary Hurley, former Springfield City Councilor Tim Allen and Spirit of Springfield President Judy Matt that while he won Hampden
County, he was not able to make enough inroads in the district’s other three counties to win. “I’m really proud of the campaign. I think we did everything we could,” he told Reminder Publishing. “We spent a lot of time all across the district and spent a lot of time meeting voters in Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin. County and obviously Hampden, which is home base. But in the end, I think there’s, you know, certainly some geographic forces at play. You know, you can see the numbers happening in Berkshire and Hampshire and Franklin. And I think that it’s clear that the voters have of those places have shown that they’ve got a preference for somebody from Berkshire County than they do from Springfield, which is often represented in geographic politics.” Fenton, who ran on his record as a public servant on the Springfield City Council and his experience as an attorney, secured several Berkshire County endorsements during his campaign, including District Attorney Timothy Shugrue, Sheriff Thomas Bowler and Clerk of Courts
Lisa Denault-Viale, but those did little to move the needle on Election Day. Fenton won Springfield with 64% of the vote, but the city’s turnout failed to top 12%. Fenton also carried Chicopee with 58% and West Springfield with more than 55% and eked out Westfield. However, he narrowly lost Holyoke and saw significant setbacks in Jacobs’ home Berkshire County as well as Hampshire and Franklin counties. Jacobs dominated in key non-Hampden County communities including North Adams, Pittsfield, Amherst, Northampton, Greenfield, South Hadley and Easthampton. “I’m honored to have received the support that we had, especially in Hampden County and throughout the district, but I congratulate Councilor Jacobs on her victory and look forward to working with her to improve the judiciary for all of Western Mass,” Fenton said. In a social media post, Jacobs said, “This has truly been a campaign powered by the people who came together and made
Springfield City Councilor and candidate for Governor’s Council Michael Fenton addresses supporters at City Line Cafe after conceding to incumbent Tara Jacobs on election night. Reminder Publishing photo by Chris Maza
this win possible! Thank you to each and every one of you who wrote emails, letters to the editor, social media posts, who told your friends and families about what the Governor’s Council is, why it matters and why you support me continuing to serve Western Mass
in this role. I am so grateful for your love, your support and your encouragement.” In addressing supporters, Fenton repeated the phrase, “The See FENTON on page 7
Sen. Markey defeats Rep. Moulton, will face Deaton in November By Colin A. Young State House News Service
BOSTON — For the second cycle in a row, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey has dispatched a primary challenge from another member of the state’s all-Democrat congressional delegation, cruising to victory on Sept. 1 over U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton and positioning himself one election away from another six-year term. The Associated Press called the race in Markey’s favor at 8:31 p.m. As of 8:36 p.m., the AP showed 3% of the total votes were counted, split between Markey and Moulton, 74.2% to 25.8%. The primary win positions Markey to face off against Bolton
Republican John Deaton in the Nov. 3 general election. Deaton, who got 40% of the statewide vote in his challenge of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2024 shortly after moving here from Rhode Island, did not have a primary opponent on Sept. 1. The Markey-Moulton matchup had all the markings of a defining race of the 2026 cycle for Democrats: it pitted a proud progressive against a more moderate Democrat, and represented a clash between a longtime incumbent and a younger challenger pitching a new approach. The twist to the contest was that the candidate claiming the progressive mantle was not the younger challenger, but rather the longtime incumbent looking to
defend his seat in power. Markey, 80, has said this race will be his last for U.S. Senate. The Malden Democrat joined the U.S. Senate in 2013, after beating fellow Democrat U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch and then Republican Gabriel Gomez in a special election to fill the seat that U.S. Sen. John Kerry gave up to become secretary of state. Before that, Markey was elected to 18 full terms and two partial ones in the U.S. House of Representatives — he has represented part or all of Massachusetts in Washington D.C. since early November 1976. Markey said last weekend that the contest between himself and Moulton gave voters “a fundamental choice to make: a choice
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (left) and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (right) talk to reporters after their first debate. Reminder Publishing file photo
between progressive values or the status quo,” framing himself as being separate from the status quo, despite his half-century in Congress. If reelected, Markey has said he will push measures to lower household energy bills and carbon emissions (you don’t hear him say “Green New Deal” nearly as often as in 2020); advocate for Medicare for All and expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing; continue to push federal legislation to regulate Big Tech and artificial intelligence; support a pathway to citizenship for so-called Dreamers; back abortion protections in the Women’s Health Protection Act; and push to tax ultra-millionaires and “extreme” CEO pay. On the road toward his third
full term in the Senate, Markey again had to run against and outpoll another sitting member of the state’s congressional delegation. In 2020, Markey rebounded from an early polling disadvantage to defeat then-U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III in a competitive primary, 55% to 45%. Moulton, who turns 48 next month, was elected to the U.S. House six times by voters on the North Shore. The Democrat has not been shy about challenging members of his own party — he won his seat in the U.S. House in 2014 by defeating longtime Democratic Congressman John Tierney, briefly challenged U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi for the speaker’s gavel in 2018 and joined a crowdSee MARKEY on page 3
CORRECTION In the Sept. 3 edition of The Reminder in the story titled “DiZoglio ostracizes Legislature for ‘patronizing’ voters”, Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi was listed as the Hampshire County sheriff. Reminder Publishing regrets this error.
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ed field for president in 2019. Moulton completed four combat tours in Iraq as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. In Salem, he co-founded and was president of Eastern Healthcare Partners. On the campaign trail, Moulton has argued that the Democratic Party has “clung to the status quo, insisted on using the same old playbook, and isn’t fighting hard enough.” He said he was not challenging Markey because he disagreed with the senator on the issues, but because “this isn’t a fight we can put off for another six years. The future we all believe in is on the line.” In a statement sent out by Moulton’s campaign at 9:20 p.m. on Sept. 1, Moulton said he spoke to Markey and “pledged that I will do everything I can to help him win re-election in November, to ensure a Democrat represents the state we both love.” “We entered this race as an underdog and know the outcome tonight might not be what we had hoped for. We ran a race that stood on principle — that wasn’t just about politics as usual — and that elevated the voices of Massachusetts citizens who have been left behind by the status quo in Washington,” Moulton said. “I am proud of the race we ran, the culture our campaign built, and the conversations we started. Challenging the establishment and calling for a new generation of leadership isn’t easy, but it is necessary.” Moulton added that while “this campaign has been everything for the last year of our lives... it’s important to keep this in perspective.” “People are dying in wars, people are struggling to survive around the globe and on our own streets, and a lot of people remain disillusioned with our country and its leadership. That all represents work we still have to do, regardless of whether I’m in the United States Senate or not,” Moulton continued. Deaton, a Marine veteran and
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attorney, earned the Republican Party’s endorsement unusually early in November and has spent much of his time since trying to appeal to the growing base of unenrolled voters and what he calls “disenfranchised” Democrats in Massachusetts. He pitches himself as “a voice for balance, accountability, and practical solutions for working families.” If sent to Washington D.C., which is currently controlled by Republicans, Deaton said he’d work outside the supermajority to advocate for Massachusetts residents. He has also been open about not voting for fellow Republicans across the country. “I talked to Markey voters today, and of course Deaton voters, but all the people they’re not looking for ideology. They’re looking for solutions. And so, if people can get past labels: Democrat, Republican, progressive, conservative, and say which one of these candidates has the best solutions to our problems, I’m going to win this race,” Deaton told the News Service during a primary night party. Asked how he’d govern differently than Markey, Deaton said, “Independent, that’s the best word to describe me.” “I would give Massachusetts an independent voice. I don’t have loyalty to a person, i.e. Donald Trump. I don’t have loyalty to a party — the Republican Party. I don’t have loyalty to an agenda. I have loyalty to Massachusetts and America,” Deaton said. Deaton said he “wrestled with” the idea of running as an Independent instead of Republican. But he said, “when you look at the polling and everything, unfortunately, we live in a two-party system.” Massachusetts has not elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate since Wrentham’s Scott Brown defeated Attorney General Martha Coakley in a 2010 special election, and no Republican has been elected to a full term in the Senate since Edward Brooke was reelected to a second term in 1972. Colin Young is the deputy editor for State House News Service and State Affairs Pro Massachusetts. Reach him at colin.young@statehousenews.com.
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Roadway improvement project begins on Franklin St. By Cliff Clark
Franklin Street. There will also be an island installed down the center of the street with a flashing light, he said. That crosswalk has been the site of two incidents over the last two years involving pedestrians being struck by vehicles. In September 2024, a man using a wheelchair died after being struck there, and only two weeks ago, a man was seriously injured at the crosswalk after being struck by a vehicle while pushing a stroller carrying a baby. The vehicle just barely clipped the stroller, knocking it over. The baby suffered very minor injuries, Parrish said. He also said the family of the man struck was happy to learn about the safety improvements. Another reason for the crosswalk readjustment was that motorists on Elm Street heading south — after the bridge — toward the intersection with Franklin Street often turn right onto Orange Street and travel down to Kellogg Street to avoid the congestion.
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WESTFIELD — The city of Westfield’s Engineering Department has announced that work has begun on a roadway improvement project along a portion of Franklin Street, from Shepard Street through the Elm Street intersection, to enhance pedestrian safety. “This is one of the city’s worst areas for pedestrian crashes,” said Lt. John Parrish, the Police Department director of the Traffic Bureau. “Our goal is to have zero incidents involving pedestrians and vehicles,” he said. The improvements are significant, said the city’s Utility Engineer Matthew Gamelli. Perhaps the most consequential safety improvement will be at the crosswalk across Franklin Street between Madison and Kellogg streets, he said. The crosswalk will move west by about 20 feet, and solar-powered Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons will be installed on each side of
Gamelli said that as motorists on Kellogg Street approach Franklin Street to turn right, they typically look left for approaching vehicles, but not right to check for pedestrians approaching on the sidewalk. “This will make it safer for pedestrians walking east toward Kellogg to be seen by motorists,” Gamelli said. Another significant change will be at the intersection of Washington and Franklin streets. Currently, two lanes are heading toward Elm Street. As motorists approach Washington Street heading east on Franklin, the right-hand lane will be for right turns only, Gamelli said. Motorists who want to turn right from Franklin onto Elm Street must stay in the left lane, which becomes a single lane. Traffic will be funneled at that point. This choke point will prevent motorists who often continue straight from trying to merge into the left lane to turn left onto Elm Street, which is
This drawing illustrates the improvements that will be made to Franklin Street over the next eight months. The improvements are to enhance pedestrian safety. This area of Franklin Street is one of the city’s most dangerous areas for pedestrians. Photo credit: City of Westfield
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City remembers loved ones lost to overdose with Aug. 31 ceremony By Amy Porter
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WESTFIELD — Families and friends gathered to remember their loved ones lost to overdose at the Elm Street Plaza on Overdose Awareness Day, Aug. 31. “We’re here to honor the lives of those we lost,” said Jessica Lincoln, director of the Westfield Peer Recovery Center, one of the organizers, along with Gabby Nardacci of Tapestry Health and Hunter Pelkey, Westfield’s sub-
stance use coordinator. Many other community organizations were present to share naloxone and overdose response information, peer support and recovery connections, treatment and referral, grief support and community care. “We chose a puzzle piece as the symbol for tonight’s event,” said Lincoln at the start of the program. “Every person is a piece of something bigger. Sometimes people struggling can feel they no longer fit. Every piece matters.
One connection can be the reason someone gets another chance,” she added, pointing to a table with blank puzzle pieces on which family members could write a message or someone’s name. One group of friends there, in memory of their loved ones, was wearing T-shirts from a national Walk for Life that one of them had participated in earlier this year. On the back of the T-shirts were the names of those they had lost. Mindy and Chris Provencher talked about Mindy’s son, Austin Wise, who died in Westfield in 2023. “Forever 25,” Provencher said about Austin. She said two of the people listed on the back of her shirt were cousins; the others were friends and friends of friends. Wendy Godin of Westfield held up a photo of her son Zachary Saunders, who passed away in 2020. “Today, August 31 is his birthday,” she said.
Family and friends were invited to write messages of remembrance and hope on the memorial wall at Westfield’s Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31. Reminder Publishing photo by Amy Porter
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that address addiction and serious mental illness, rather than treating housing alone as the solution.” “We cannot solve homelessness by funding systems that perpetuate it,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said earlier this month. “We will fund programs that get people off the streets, into treatment and recovery, and back to self-sufficiency.” To bolster harm reduction efforts in Massachusetts, Health and Human Services Secretary Kiame Mahaniah said he’d like to see heightened federal investment in areas beyond healthcare, like job placements and specialized supportive housing. “I would say that’s probably my biggest wish list — is just (the) ability to have some of these efforts federally funded to just do the extra work,” Mahaniah told the News Service. He added, “The only way to really have the amount of money that I’m thinking of is if we had a federal partner that believed in it.” Healey told attendees she feels the “visceral anger,” as well as “overwhelming” pain and sadness, that they carry while grieving family and community members lost to the opioid epidemic.
She also became choked up while speaking about people who have made it into recovery. “I can’t tell you how proud I am to get to shake your hand, to get to touch you,” the governor said. Healey, who wore a purple ribbon, crouched alongside First Lady Joanna Lydgate to plant additional flags on Boston Common. As attorney general, Healey sued Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family for their role in fueling the opioid crisis, which led to a $4.3 billion settlement for prevention, treatment and recovery efforts. “Joanna was actually the one responsible for putting the case together over the course of several years, working with investigators and attorneys in our office,” Healey said. “And together we fought for accountability. I want to be clear: It wasn’t justice. The Sacklers deserve to be in jail.” A July 2021 press release from AG Healey’s office listed former Chief Deputy Lydgate among a team of officials in the attorney general’s office who worked on the case. Alison Kuznitz is a reporter for State House News Service and State Affairs Pro MassachuGraphic Design Manager: setts. Reach her at akuznitz@ Beth Thurber stateaffairs.com.
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BOSTON — Flanked by a sea of more than 20,000 purple flags representing lives lost to the opioid epidemic, Gov. Maura Healey invited dozens of people gathered around the display on Aug. 31 to call out the names of loved ones who succumbed to fatal overdoses. “Today these purple flags not only ask something of us, they demand something of us, especially those of us in government,” Healey said during an International Overdose Awareness Day ceremony on Boston Common. “They ask us to not look away. They ask us to keep fighting, and they ask us to do everything that we can so that this field, as poignant as it is, doesn’t grow any larger.” The fluttering emblems, some emblazoned with people’s names, capture overdose fatalities in the commonwealth from 2013 through 2025. There were 978 confirmed and estimated overdose deaths last year, the first time in more than a decade that fatalities dropped below 1,000. Overdose deaths hit a “devastating peak” of more than 2,300 in 2022, Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein said. For three consecutive years, the number of deaths has declined, which Goldstein attributed to investments in treatment and recovery, plus harm reduction efforts such as making naloxone and fentanyl test strips available to Bay Staters. “We know, and we see firsthand, progress is possible,” Goldstein said. “We can prevent overdose deaths. What we are doing together is building a commonwealth where people struggling with substance use are met with dignity, compassion, treatment, recovery, support and the opportunity to live — to live well, to live safely and to live fully.” State Rep. Kate Donaghue, whose son died from an overdose eight years ago, recalled his struggles to find a treatment program that was covered by his insurance as he became addicted to prescription medications and heroin. “He was thrown out of programs for drinking and smoking. Why do we punish people for
showing the symptoms of the disease?” Donaghue said. “What if we had more beds and better quality treatment? What if an overdose prevention center had been available? What if our prisons and jails were not our largest treatment providers?” A 2024 substance use and addiction law required that insurers cover opioid overdose reversal drugs, established licensure for recovery coaches, and installed civil and criminal liability protections around the use of fentanyl test strips. A legislative conference committee dropped a controversial Senate provision that would have legalized overdose prevention centers, where people could use illegal drugs under the supervision of trained healthcare workers. This session, bills (H 5274 / S 1393) to legalize overdose prevention centers have stalled in the House and Senate Ways and Means committees. Goldstein, asked whether health officials are missing any harm reduction tools from the Legislature, acknowledged DPH supports overdose prevention centers “because we see them as an evidence-based way to prevent more overdoses here in Massachusetts.” “But you know, the Legislature has been a great partner in this work and has appropriated a lot of money to the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, which has allowed us to purchase a lot of naloxone and get that out on the streets,” Goldstein told the News Service. “It’s allowed us to build housing units all across Massachusetts – have low-threshold housing available to people. We know ‘Housing First’ as a strategy works.” The Biden administration’s plan to end homelessness involved a “Housing First” approach, which viewed housing as an immediate solution before connecting people to more resources to stay housed, such as healthcare, job training, and legal and education assistance, according to the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. The Trump administration says it is moving away from those “failed” policies and embracing a “Treatment First” strategy that “pairs safe housing with services
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SOUTHWICK — It took a “little bit of a ways to get there,” said Select Board Chair Douglas Moglin when making the “cool announcement” that residents can now sign up to become subscribers to the town’s fiber-optic network. He also said residents can indicate interest in receiving the service in the future. “As of this morning, the website for people to sign up to show interest in becoming a customer of the municipal fiber [network] is available,” Moglin said on Aug. 31 during the board meeting that a dedicated Southwick page on the Whip City Fiber website allows residents to express interest in signing up for the service.
Saying it took a “little bit of a ways” to get to the point where residents in three “fiberhoods” can sign up for the fiber-optic network would probably be considered an understatement. In fact, it was 2018 when current Select Board member Joseph Deedy was serving as chair of the board, when Whip City Fiber first presented the service as a possible option in the future. Nearly eight years later, what began as an informal discussion is now a reality. Moglin said residents in the Fernwood, Birchwood and Pineywood neighborhoods have probably noticed utility trucks with linemen from Verizon and Eversource, creating space on utility poles where the cable will be hung. However, on the Whip City Fi-
ber’s Southwick page, the three fiberhoods show where the service will be available, and they differ from the original fiberhood map. When construction starts next summer or fall, according to the Whip City Fiber website, service will be available on Birchwood Road, Feeding Hills Road, Fernwood Road, Gargon Terrace, Hudson Drive, Pineywood Road, Powder Mill Road and Whalley Way. Also in the service area are Bonnie View Road, Cedar Street, College Highway from Coes Hill Road to Bugbee Road, Crescent Circle, Feeding Hills Road, Juniper Road, Renny Avenue, Ridge Street, Sefton Drive, Shirley Terrace, Southwick Hill, Depot Street, Evergreen Terrace, Granville Road, Maple Street and Sheep Pasture Road.
Within the three fiberhoods are the regional schools, the Southwick Public Library and the length of Hudson Drive in the town’s Industrial Park. Whip City Fiber said service to those areas will be ready in late 2027. Interestingly, the homes on Rails End Road and Woodland Ridge are surrounded by fiberhoods on three sides but not included in the service area. That’s because the homes on those roads have underground service, according to Whip City Fiber. “The pilot program is focusing on homes with existing overhead service. Addresses with underground service will be considered in the future,” according to Whip City Fiber. When Moglin was making the
announcement, board member Joseph Deedy asked if anyone in town could sign up on the site. Moglin said yes. The Whip City Fiber Southwick page has the entire town broken into 15 other fiberhoods. Residents can enter their addresses to indicate interest in the service. If the pilot program is successful, Moglin said, those residents who show interest in the service and live adjacent to the first three fiberhoods, will determine the next phase. But that’s several years down the road. Moglin said that what is important now is for the pilot to be successful, which could mean future expansion of the network. See FIBER-OPTIC on page 8
Town to make another push for Middle Pond dredging project earmark By Cliff Clark
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SOUTHWICK — If the town never gets a $500,000 earmark to cover the cost of dredging an area of Middle Pond on Congamond Lakes, it won’t be for lack of trying. “[State Sen. Paul Mark’s] chief of staff has been organizing a boat tour of Congamond,” said Richard Grannells, the chair of the Lake Management Committee, during the committee’s meeting on Aug. 27. The tour, which will include town officials; representatives from Mark’s office and state Rep. Nicholas Boldyga’s office; officials from the state’s Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Conservation and Recreation; and the town’s chief administrative officer, Nicole Parker, Grannells said. Last year, Grannells announced that Mark and Boldy-
ga had secured a $500,000 earmark to dredge the cove between Saunders Boat Livery’s floating docks and the south boat ramp on Middle Pond. For years, the Lake Management Committee has been pushing for funding. In 2024, it applied for a pilot grant program administered by the state’s Executive Office of Economic Development for small dredging projects. Although Town Meeting endorsed $100,000 to sway officials to pick Southwick, the application was rejected. Once it was confirmed that the earmark was in the bond bill, Parker began actively advocating for the funds to be released, making the case to state officials about how important the project was, not only to Southwick but to the region. She contacted Mark in August 2025 to recount her experience as town manager in Hardwick. She wrote to Mark that while
getting the money released initially seemed impossible, it was eventually released. “We could possibly get it released here too, with a lot of support from our reps/senator/congressman and anyone else willing to join us. We MUST prove how integral this project is to the entire region and to the commonwealth,” Parker wrote to Mark. In response to Parker, Mark conceded that having a bond bill earmark released is an uphill battle. “It can be difficult, but with the right collaboration and a project ready to go, we can make it happen. It isn’t like the budget where a check just shows up; there’s lots of legwork,” Mark wrote to Parker, adding that he would work on his “end” to make it happen. The depth of water is the issue at the boat ramp, which is two feet and often less than that during drought conditions. Grannells said boats launched
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ing on these issues for the people of this district,” Neal said. “There’s not a family, and I want to say this firmly, there is not a family in Western or central Massachusetts that has not benefited from my work or been impacted by my influence in Congress.” Days before the election, Whalen and Neal faced off in their lone debate of the season at the WWLP TV-22 Studios in Chicopee. The head-to-head encounter illustrated a fissure between the candidates, as Whalen took shots at Neal’s lack of in-person town halls and use of corporate money to push certain agendas,
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one of the most dangerous areas for pedestrians in the city. Traffic in the left lane may be backed up, waiting for the traffic signal or for a pedestrian. If the pedestrian is in the crosswalk between Maple and Summer streets walking toward Grader Auto Service, motorists in the right lane heading toward Elm Street cannot see the pedestrian. This improvement will prevent
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can give back is meaningful to families who lost someone to an overdose. We’re keeping their legacy alive. We’re keeping their names alive,” Di Rosa said. Katie P. said that after 20 years of addiction, she overdosed and was confined to a wheelchair. “Without the lifesaving drug Naloxone, I wouldn’t be here today.” She said she had lost her
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work is not done,” but declined to confirm whether he would make a third attempt at the position. Fenton also narrowly lost to Jacobs in a four-way race that included attorneys Shawn Allyn and Jeffery Morneau during the 2022 Democratic primary.
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while Neal criticized Whalen for a campaign that was “Light on facts, empty on promises, big on platitudes.” That acrimony, however, seemingly fizzled out following Neal’s victory. The congressman said that Whalen called him to congratulate Neal on the victory. He described the call as “pleasant” and added that he was “delighted” by the conversation. In his own closing speech, Whalen said he congratulated Neal on the victory. “I would say that there was no acrimony, which is what a campaign is supposed to end on,” Neal said about his final encounter with Whalen. A high school educator of 11 years, Whalen ran on a promise of abolishing Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement, surtaxing the wealthy, supporting green new deals and protecting the working and middle classes. He argued that a new voice was needed for a new generation of Democratic leadership. Despite falling short of his goal, Whalen appeared to look back fondly on the experience. He said he was “eternally grateful” for his team that stuck by him and the campaign journey “restored faith” in himself and humanity. He argued that the opponent was not the congressman or corporate money, but a failure to believe. With that, he urged people to believe in themselves and the greater good going forward. “When I’m back in class, I will look back at this night, and at this inflection point in American
history, and know that we etched our names into it with courage, conviction and compassion,” Whalen said. “Because we’ve won regardless. No one can ever take this from us. The relationships we’ve made, the community we’ve built, the good we’ve brought into the world, these are ours to keep and ours to give.” Looking ahead, Neal said there’s still much to fight if he’s officially reelected. He said he intends to stand up to President Donald Trump on the tariff issue and his decision to eliminate tax credits from the Affordable Care Act. “Twenty-one million Americans received health insurance because of what we did,” Neal said of the legislation. “There was no reason for the president
to eliminate those tax credits for those people, and we’re going to return to that immediately as well and restore those tax credits to people who need decent healthcare every single day.” Neal added that he plans to fight for the nutrition programs that were cut from the tax bill and will continue to stand up for Social Security “like [he] always [has].” “I look at those credits, I look at Medicaid, funding to SNAP, and we’re going to rein in this reckless war in Iran that was a war of choice,” Neal said. “We are certainly going to hold ICE into account for what they’ve done, as well.” Neal will face Milleron in the general election on Nov. 3.
it from occurring, Gamelli said. For those in the left lane approaching Maple Street, a leftturn-only lane will be created at the intersection of Franklin Street. There will also be a significant realignment of the crosswalk between Maple and Summer streets — it will be moved toward Elm Street by about eight feet. Once the improvements are complete, Franklin Street from Elm to Maple streets will have only two lanes, and there will be a bump-out at the corner of Summer and Franklin streets.
The lanes will be separated by a traffic island with a flashing pedestrian light. There will be a left-turn-only lane immediately after the traffic island for motorists who want to turn left into the CVS parking lot. Once a motorist passes the island and the bump-out to turn right onto Elm Street, a rightturn-only lane will open. At the intersection of Franklin and Elm streets, the island with the traffic light will be removed, and another island will be built to make it easier for tractor-trailers
to turn right. Work on the improvements, which will include new mill-andoverlay pavement treatment, will start this week, Gamelli said. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, two-way traffic flow is expected to be maintained throughout the project. However, motorists should expect moderate-to-significant traffic impacts during the morning and afternoon commutes, Gamelli said. “It will be open at least for one-way traffic — there might be
unforeseen circumstances. Obviously, a very heavily congested area for traffic, with moderate to heavy congestion at times during peak flow,” Gamelli said. Gamelli said the project is being funded through a combination of Chapter 90 and city funds from the Engineering Department. Major work will be completed by Dec. 1, 2026, with final completion by June 1, 2027. The total cost of the project is $1.02 million. Staff Writer Amy Porter contributed to this story.
father to an overdose at age 14, as well as two partners, her cousin and a good friend, but she had been saved time and time again. “Tapestry Outreach met me where I was with harm reduction just to stay alive. Because Tapestry kept me alive, I was there when the Peer Recovery Center opened its door.” She said the center is peer-led by people who “get it,” and has become a sanctuary under Lincoln’s direction. “Today I stand before you 1 ½ years in recovery and no longer in a wheelchair,” she said.
Another Peer Recovery Center member, Patrick H., said he is now an alcoholic in recovery, clean and sober for nine months. Still, last November he was in a homeless encampment in Westfield. “I’m learning how to face things one day at a time, one hour at a time, who I am without alcohol and drugs being the center of my life. I have people around me helping me get through it,” he said, talking about the center and Nardacci of Tapestry Health.
“When you have nowhere to go, having someone say ‘come in, sit down, you’re welcome here’ helps you more than you can know.” Patrick said he recently lost his brother, Greg, to addiction. “I knew my brother was more than his addiction. When we don’t talk about addiction, it can be incredibly isolating,” he said, adding that he was glad he got to see the old Greg a few weeks before his brother passed. “He died from an overdose on his birthday, a day that now carries two mean-
ings for me.” “People deserve the opportunity to survive their worst day until they’re ready,” Patrick said. “As long as someone is alive, there is still a possibility.” The evening ended with the lighting of candles and a moment of silence. Anyone with questions may call Tapestry Health Harm Reduction at 413-2415379, Westfield Recovery Center at 413-507-0787 or Westfield’s substance use coordinator at 413-572-6334.
“I’m definitely not in a position to say that tonight,” he said. “But what I am fully committed to is public service, and I’ve been committed to that since I was 22 years old in elected office, and that has not changed tonight. I’m still committed to my community and will continue to do everything I can to improve it.” Fenton has one year left on his term on the City Council.
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Stanley Park brings back Carillon Tower Dinner for four WESTFIELD — Stanley Park is once again offering one of its most unique experiences as part of the Heritage in Bloom Annual Fundraiser’s online auction and raffle: a private dinner for four in the iconic Carillon Tower. The Carillon Tower Dinner, valued at $750, gives four guests the opportunity to enjoy a private dining experience inside one of
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Stanley Park’s most recognizable landmarks. Surrounded by the beauty of the park, guests will enjoy an evening in a setting that is rarely open for private events. The Carillon Tower Dinner is just one of the many items available through Stanley Park’s online auction and raffle, which is now live for bidding and raffle entries.
This year’s collection features an incredible variety of experiences, getaways, gift certificates, family activities and unique items. Other highlights include a one-week stay at Sea Glass Cottage valued at $2,010, a one-year YMCA family membership valued at $1,010, a scenic plane ride valued at $750, a handmade rocking chair, a Wa-
ter’s Edge Resort & Spa stay, golf packages, Springfield Thunderbirds tickets, garden experiences and much more. Community members can browse all of the available items, place their bids and purchase raffle entries at: auctria.events/ heritageinbloom Online bidding and raffle entries are open now and will close
at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, in conjunction with Stanley Park’s in-person Heritage in Bloom Annual Fundraiser at the Beveridge Pavilion. Proceeds from the fundraiser help support Stanley Park’s gardens, trails, programs, events and continued stewardship of this treasured community resource.
ward,” he said. When the town-owned network project was being developed, it was intended to be financed by subscriber fees, which would pay off a proposed $15-million bond to have the network reach every town home. To make the project financially viable, the take rate, or partic-
ipation rate, of between 40% and 50% of the homes in a fiberhood would have to opt for the service, which would cost $89 per month. That percentage hasn’t changed, despite Town Meeting narrowly voting down the $15 million bond authorization to build out the network; the article needed a two-thirds major-
ity to pass. The final vote was 353 voted yes and 204 voted no, missing the two-thirds threshold by 14 votes. Being used as up-front money for the pilot project are a $3 million bond authorization that Town Meeting approved in 2023, $900,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funds, and a $250,000
state grant. “We’re working within the confines of what we have and we’ll see where we end up…it’s also going to give us an opportunity to prove out the take rate… now we just got to put [the cable] on the pole and go,” Moglin said during the meeting.
regulations. Bannish said it can be difficult for officers to respond unless the department’s boat is in the water and ready to go. He was also asked if he had
considered designating one or two officers whose sole responsibility was to patrol the ponds. It’s a question of staffing, and while officers can make timeand-a-half while patrolling the
ponds in the department’s boat, it’s not as much as they can often make on traffic details, he said. However, he said that with the new boat, the department has spent more time patrolling the
ponds than in recent years. He added that patrols were even more necessary this summer after the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department discontinued its patrols on the ponds due to lost funding.
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EASTHAMPTON — The one and only Bread & Puppet Circus is back on the road, and its fall 2026 tour, “The Upside Down World Circus,” will once again return to Easthampton on Sunday, Sept. 13, at Park Hill Orchard. The annual tour continues to draw on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread & Puppet iconography by highlighting urgent issues of the day, touring the Northeast, Midwest and the South with puppets big and small, acts serious and silly and performances slapstick and sublime, according to organizers. Stilt dancers, paper mache beasts and a brass band will once again visit various communities, making “a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration,” organizers said. Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s. It is one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in the country. After the show, Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and “Cheap Art” — books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press — will be for sale. “Ever since [its founding], the company has made larger-thanlife, politically charged puppet spectacles and served sourdough rye bread with garlic aioli to empower domestic resurrection from the toes up,” said Bread & Puppet Theater Press Liaison Paul Bedard. The Bread & Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick, organizers said. Believing that theater is a basic necessity like bread, the company frequently brings its work to the streets for those who may not otherwise go to the theater. Its shows feature puppets often on stilts, wearing huge masks with expressive faces, singing, dancing and playing music. Using a “do it yourself” and “cheap art” mentality, the group makes work quickly, Bedard added. Any given show may have puppets made just for that year’s show or puppets that have been brought out of storage, repaired and repurposed decades after their creation. “We make and remake our puppets with gusto,” Bedard said. “Our shows are serious and silly, and I think people appreciate that.
A look at this year’s Bread & Puppet Theater tour, “The Upside Down World Circus.” Photo credit: Bread & Puppet Theater
At every show, audience members tell us that they last saw us in 1970-something or visited our farm in Vermont just last year. There’s a tradition and forward drive. We haven’t fixed the world yet, so we need these puppets to keep working and keep inspiring us to confront our upside-down situation.” Now in its 63rd year, Bread & Puppet will make stops in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Ypsilanti, Chicago, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Decatur, Cincinnati and more. In all, the company plans 40 shows in 35 places across two months on the road. The tour makes a stop once again at Park Hill Orchard; according to Bedard, it has become one of the most fun and largest shows on tour, he said. “The field and all the art there are beautiful. [owners] Russell [Braen] and Alane [Hartley] are wonderful advocates for our work and community builders in the area,” Bedard said. “We do have one request for folks attending this
year: please come early. Parking takes time, and the best way to help out friends at Park Hill Orchard is to one, buy their produce, and two, arrive with ample time to park.” Bedard said the tour’s theme of “The Upside Down World Circus” was a simple one. “The world is upside down. It seems everything is upside down,” he said. “We need to recognize that things are severely askew, demonstrate just how inverted it all is so that we can radically oppose this radically wrong system. This year’s circus looks at the brutality of empire, at home, abroad. But we also look to the many people and organizations banding together to oppose this brutality.” Ticket prices vary by venue, but as with all Bread & Puppet shows, no one is ever turned away for lack of funds, Bedard said. Those needing financial assistance with a ticket should email tickets@ breadandpuppet.org. For more details and the full tour schedule, visit BreadAndPupper.org/tour.
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Lorelai Whalley (Southwick) drives through a pair of WestConn defenders.
WESTFIELD STATE VS WESTCONN
WestConn’s Delaney Israel (Longwood, New York) tangles with Olivia DeMember.
SOCCER
The Westfield State University Owls hosted the WestConn Wolves Sept. 1 at Alumni Field, losing 2-1. REMINDER SPORTS PHOTOS TAKEN BY MARC ST. ONGE
Alexa Karabetsos (Belchertown) kicks the ball up the pitch with Raegan Englehardt (Lancaster), Tia Tollis (East Longmeadow), and Julia Dromerhauser (Islip, New York) close behind.
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Emersynn Cage (Longmeadow) moves the ball up the pitch.
The Westfield State University women’s soccer team gathers before their season kickoff game Sept. 1 against Western Connecticut at Alumni Field.
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The Westfield State University Owls women’s soccer team.
Owls’ goalie Kayla Santucci (Agawam) stops a WestConn shot at the goal.
Quinn Giggey (Leicester) kicks the ball away from the Owls’ goal.
Olivia DeMember (West Boylston) controls the ball near a sideline.
Riley Pryor (Westfield) competes with Abby Corcoran (Newington, Connecticut) for control of the ball.
Libby Puttick (Holyoke) battles Gracen Regan (Monroe, New Jersey) at the WestConn goal.
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HAGGER’S LANDSCAPING SERVICES, LLC
Veteran Owned & Operated 10% Sr. Discounts
HOME MAINTENANCE JOSEPH'S HANDYMAN COMPANY Carpentry, remodeling, kitchen, baths, basements, drywall, tile, floors, restoration services, doors, windows, decks, stairs, interior/exterior painting, plumbing. Small jobs ok. Projects designed to fit your needs, all types of professional work done since 1985. Call Joe (413)364-7038
HOUSE PAINTING
LETOURNEAU & SONS PAINTING ONE CALL DOES IT ALL! Family owned and operated, painting/home improvements. Serving Western MA since 1986. Specializing in residential/commercial , exterior/interior painting and staining. Exterior home repairs/carpentry of all type.
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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GRANVILLE
Robin Bach, trustee, and Virginia M. Tarney Irrevocable Home Trust, trustee of, to Brendan Eukers and Sharron H. Mund, 707 North Lane, $350,000. Thomas J. Daly to Edward J. Menino, 344 Beech Hill Road, $660,000.
HOLYOKE
Anibal A. Diaz Luna and Enid Y. Ofray Ocasio to Raquel Alvarez and Jesus Olavarria, 85 Brook St., $340,000. Carrie Schieppe to Kaizer Maximus Lopez, 45 Taylor St., $360,000. Joseph A. Gosselin and Karen M. Gosselin to Angelique Cadieux, 45 Kane Road, $357,000. Shaheen Sutterwala and Kimberly Tanudjaja-Smith to Nancy S. Lorenz, trustee, and N. Sipe Lorenz 2017 Trust, trustee of, 213 Locust St., $325,000.
MONTGOMERY
Frances X. Hogan, commr, to Joshua A. Heath, 86 Carrington Road, Vera Maerko and Alexander Maerko to Andrew Steven Lafrennie and Yahaira Lafrennie, 350 Main Road,
$430,000. $390,000.
SOUTHWICK
Andrew L. Gorenc to Atlas Development Services Inc., 17 Depot St., $230,000. Gary B. Roderick, trustee, and Gary B. Roderick 2015 Revocable Trust, trustee of, to Mark V. Pszczolkowski and Gabriela Pszczolkowski, 14 Iroquois Drive, $806,500. Louise Berrelli to Laurie Bernier, Barry Bernier and Nathan A. Leitl, 1 Echo Road, $291,900. Lucille M. R. Dewey and Lucille M. Dewey to Michael Chambers, 40 Point Grove Road, $245,075. Michael Fournier and Joanne Fournier to Paul Placanico and Danielle Placanico, 6 Iroquois Drive, $1,300,000. Robert Moineau to Albert G. Lyon and Theresa Koloski, 9 Rosewood Lane, Unit 9, $207,000.
WEST SPRINGFIELD
John J. Koufopoulos and Angela Koufopoulos to Bikash Chherti, 20 Sherwood Ave.,
$415,000.
MASONRY MASONRY AND CHIMNEY REPAIR Stucco/Repointing/Small Chimney Repairs/Rebuilds. Call or Text Chris 413-977-9041
TMR MASON CONTRACTOR All types of masonry and concrete: brick, block, stone stucco. Chimney repairs, foundation repairs, bulkheads, concrete sidewalks, stairs and patios, Fully licensed/ insured. Todd: 413-575-3839
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Our goal is to help 100 First Time Buyers purchase a home in the next 12 months utilizing Mass Housing Down Payment Assistance. Qualified First Time Buyers can get $25,000 to go towards their down payment and their closing costs. Please contact one of our offices for details.
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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FOR SALE: 35,000 square foot office/light industrial building on 4.5 acres of land in Concord, Massachusetts. Situated at the end of a cul-de-sac, this property is 15 minutes from Rte. 128 and 20 minutes from Rte. 495. Not only is there town water and sewer but the town of Concord has its own electric company. In addition, Concord has underground Concord fibre optic internet. 7 minutes from historic Concord center, enjoy Walden pond, Louisa May Alcott's house and many other historic sites as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. Use the entire building or keep some of the tenants already occupying the building. Mowing, plowing, and other maintenance already in place could remain. Call with any questions: 978.580.1895
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Migdalia Bernal to Deborah Lutkins, 123 Greystone Ave., $365,000. Nicholas P. Boccio, trustee, and 514 Cold Spring Realty Trust, trustee of, to Danyari Rodriguez Rosario, 514 Cold Spring Ave., Unit 514, $180,000. Omar Anderson to Emin T. Kurbanzade, 524 Cold Spring Ave., Unit 2A, $140,000. Richard L. Tyree and Ann-marie Moulton to Richard Laurence Tyree, trustee, Ann-marie Moulton Tyree, trustee, Richard Laurence Tyree Revocable Trust, trustee of, and Ann-marie Moulton Tyree Revocable Trust, trustee of, 311 Locust St., $100.
WESTFIELD
Alisha M. Bigos to Timothy Raymond Hull Jr., 36 Murray Ave., $200,000. Carole Pease to Gennadii Yevdoshenko and Ekaterina Evdoshenko, 9 Montgomery St., $295,000. Green Suburb LLC, to Kaleigh L. Wissmann and Chase D. Stutz, 67 Woodside Terrace, $400,000. Gregory S. Russian and Christine A. Saraceno to Josh Petit, 82 Montgomery St., $330,000. Joshua A. Heath and Murdock A. Douglas to Abbyrae M. Bennett and Mark Mojica-Rolon, 11 Furrow St., $285,000. Paula Fackelman Pierce, trustee, and Mary Louise Catherwood Revocable Living Trust, trustee of, to Sarah E. Limoges and Nicholas J. Limoges, 30 Cara Lane, $510,000. Sergey Gut to Clifton Hall, 17 Russellville Road, $546,100. Thomas Joseph Shea, Erin Marie Culross and Christopher Michael Shea to Emerson Spear Stevens and Kate Lynn Senecal, 45 Skyline Drive, $355,000. William H. Gero, Mary E. Delisle, Derek G. Grimm, Derek Grimm and Richard Gero to JoeJoe Properties LLC, 46 Lindbergh Boulevard, $230,000. Yevgeniy Ovechkin to Lucia-Kate Ciccarello, 1430 Russell Road, Unit 12, $216,200.
WORTHINGTON
James Bernhard to Donna Conlon, 90 Patterson Road, James O. Mendelsohn to Georgia Metz and Joseph Metz, 211 West St.,
$415,000. $120,000.
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