Hampden DA: Former priest killed boy, 13, nearly 50 years ago
Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni announces Monday, May 24, 2021, that nearly 50 years after police discovered the dead body of 13-year-old Danny Croteau floating in the Chicopee River, his office concluded that Croteau’s killer was former Catholic priest Richard Lavigne, a convicted sex offender who died Friday. STAFF PHOTO/DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
A photo of 13-year-old Danny Croteau, who in 1972 was found dead in the Chicopee River. Hampden County’s top prosecutor has announced that his office concluded Croteau’s killer was former Catholic priest Richard Lavigne, a convicted sex offender who died Friday. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Devotional Text: 2 Corinthians 9:8-10
As I sit at my desk this morning, I look outside and it is pouring rain. We need it. The ground is still dry and brown from winterâs passing, and the rain will help the grass, trees and flowers spring back to life.
The rain reminds me of an often-sung and well-known hymn written by Major Daniel Webster Whittle in 1883, âThere Shall Be Showers of Blessings.â
Whittle wrote this hymn, one of some 200 authored by him, during his many years as an evangelist. The words are based on the book of Ezekiel 34:26-27.
Letâs read the biblical verses: âI will bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing. The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land.â
Koffee Kup Bake Shop opens in Chicopee a year after owners buy Mickey’s Bike Shop building
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
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CHICOPEE The owners of the Koffee Kup officially sold their first cannolis and cakes from their new bakery in Chicopee Falls almost a year to the date that they bought closed former bike shop.
The much-anticipated opening on Thursday was a quiet one. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, owner Dino Facente said he wasn’t ready for a large gathering at his new location but did enjoy neighbors who welcomed him to the 520 East St. shop.
“We had one cute boy who came in with his grandmother, I guess he has been waiting for us to open for months,” Facente said. “He saw our open sign and he used his own money to buy a cupcake.”
Bellamy, socialism and utopia
Winter 1987-88 issue of the
World Socialist
For as long as there has been human oppression there have been dreams of the oppressed. Oppressed people have not usually had access to the means of recording their dreams, so too many of them have been lost. Nor have they had the power to communicate their dreams as widely as the powerful have been free to spread theirs, so all too often such visions of what could be have been relegated to an area outside of “serious politics”, derided as the literary yearnings of unimportant masses, or neatly filed away under the heading of “impossibility” a heading which is made to measure the needs of the ruling class of the day, as Mannheim clearly showed in his book,
Seven girls have gone missing from Chicopee over the last three months.On Friday, Jan. 29, Chicopee Police reached out to the public for help finding Saray Ortiz, 16, who has been missing since Jan. 26. Saray is the seventh missing girl .