WESTFIELD — This year’s Sons of Erin parade marshal in the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade on March 17 is Kellie Brown, chief operating officer for the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield.Brown said she was completely surprised by the recognition, which she learned about...
Dear Amy: My wife and I are staying with my sister and her family for a while because our house is being renovated.While staying with them, of course, we have witnessed how they do things, and I have a serious issue with how my sister...
Dear Annie: I have been married for 30 years and feel sad about the way things have been for the last couple of years.My husband and I were married in May 1993, and I feel like our lives have sent us in two different directions....
Major league athletes whose following-year salary increased 2½ times or more: Michael Jordan, 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, $3,850,000, 1996-97 Bulls, $30,140,000, an 8-times increase … Kobe Bryant, 1998-99 Los Angeles Lakers, $1,300,000, 1999-2000 Lakers, $9,000,000, 7 times ...
By Stephen Owsinski Fentanyl is a widely used word lately, stemming from the drug’s highly fatal potency ending the lives of users. While our still-unsecured southern border serves as a facilitator of fentanyl, the Volusia County, Florida, sheriff’s office Overdose Task Force (ODTF) combats the...
Chester Theatre’s 2024 season includes two world premieres, a fully staged production of Jay Sefton’s “Unreconciled,” directed by James Barry and starring Sefton, July 4-14, and more. Lucas Hnath’s “The Thin Place” opens the season on June 20. Tara Franklin stars. Broadway’s Bill Bowers stars...
Dear Amy: “Dave” and I have dated for four years.We love each other and are both committed to our relationship.Although we have both agreed not to marry, having survived devastating divorces, we have talked at length about consolidating our homes and moving in together.My trepidation...
SOUTHWICK — On Thursday, the Parks and Recreation Commission again endorsed a proposal from a former Southwick volunteer firefighter to build a dog park in town.“You can go right ahead and do whatever,” said Jeanne Reed, the chair of the commission, during Sarah Ann Leavy’s...
By Nathaniel PercyThe Orange County RegisterORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Deputy Tim Ott was given this scenario on Thursday, Feb. 22, inside the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s revamped firearms training center:A woman called dispatch and said she saw an unknown man rummaging through her trash cans...
By John MonkThe StateCOLUMBIA, S.C. — In the beginning, in 1947, tools for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s one-man crime lab could fit in the trunk of agent Millard Cate’s state-issued brown Oldsmobile — instruments for fingerprints and firearms, and a trusty box camera...
