Cliff Clark

The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield was notified Wednesday it had been awarded a state grant of $112,964 to upgrade the equipment in its kitchen where it prepares daily and after-school meals for children throughout the community.

Most people across the state know that the spotted lanternfly is more than a nuisance, and the ash tree borer is slowly killing every ash tree it touches, but most don’t know about the beech tree nematode.

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.

When one of the owners of Haven Southwick said in July that the town’s second recreational marijuana would be different that other dispensaries, he wasn’t kidding.

Because there are still too many people who don’t give the environment the respect it requires and deserves, the Westfield River Watershed Association will join crews from four states on Saturday, Sept. 19, to clean up what the carelessly discarded trash that ends up in Westfield section of the Connecticut River watershed.

A Special Olympic athlete is calling all cornholers to help him raise money for the Hampshire Eagles Sunday at Westfield's Shortstop Bar & Grill with a “Special Hole” tournament and raffle.

After Southwick's WGI, Inc. realized it couldn’t meet the requirements of the town’s major development bylaw, which is triggered for any new building over 60,000 square feet, it found a way around it by excluding the square footage of a mezzanine inside the building, moving a planned pickleball court, and remeasuring the square footage from inside the building instead of outside.

SOUTHWICK — When one of the owners of Haven Southwick said in July that the town’s second recreational marijuana dispensary would be different from other d

At the third Planning Board public hearing on Pioneer Valley Trading Co.’s special permit application to build a cannabis grow operation in Southwick on Granville Road, its owner offered the board a deep dive into the project, including the installation of equipment to minimize or eliminate the plants strong, pungent smell often described as skunky.

For as long as any Southwick resident can remember, the lot on College Highway directly across from the Scibelli’s Mobile has been vacant except for an aging outbuilding, until now.