This weekend’s 37th annual Green River Festival offers nearly nonstop music - beginning on Friday, June 21 - for three days on the Franklin County Fairgrounds, alongside plenty of food for all tastes, a juried craft fair with handmade creations, and lots for the kids...
While Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has dealt with the criticism, he won’t be hearing much anymore after he led the C’s to their 18th championship. The second-year coach was thrust into an awkward position, but he’s had plenty of success in the past two seasons,...
Thrift shopSpringfield - The thrift shop at St. Gregory Armenian Church, 135 Goodwin St., in the Indian Orchard section, is open Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, go online to saintgregoryarmenianchurch.org.Church eventsSunderland – First Congregational Church of Sunderland, 91 S. Main...
WESTFIELD — Robert Goyette won Tuesday’s special election for Ward 5 Municipal Light Board representative with 91% of the vote, according to unofficial results.He received 525 out of the 578 total votes. Write-in candidates, including Kenneth McLean, received 49 votes, 8% of the total. The...
Dear Abby: My cat recently passed away, and it has devastated me. He was my emotional support during some of the hardest times of my life — relationships ending, moving to different states, deaths in my family, lonely nights battling depression. My cat was my...
A letter-writer in the June 15 edition of The Westfield News wonders why we don’t fly a “heterosexual” flag and celebrate “straight” month, in the same way we celebrate Pride Month.Part of me hesitates to even dignify the letter with a response because I believe...
Dear Amy: I’m having a hard time letting go of being snubbed by a close friend of many years.My friendship with “Shelley” included our spouses and children.We’ve celebrated, laughed, shared meals, vacations, worries and mourned together.Recently I learned from a mutual friend that we both...
Dear Annie: I’ve been dating my boyfriend, “Tom,” for three years, and we recently moved in together. Things have been mostly great, but there’s one issue I’m struggling with. Tom spends a lot of time with his friends and usually doesn’t include me. He’ll go...
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TORONTO — After taking two of three from the Yankees over the weekend, Red Sox manager Alex Cora preached the importance of his team staying laser-focused as they began their road trip with a three-day trip to Rogers Centre. On Wednesday, behind a Houdini act...