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Sixth candidate emerges in race for Smith Voc board of trustees in Northampton >Published: 7/1/2021 11:12:16 PM
NORTHAMPTON – A sixth candidate has announced plans to run for the Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School board of trustees, setting up a potentially historic challenge for the board’s three elected seats.
All three incumbents are running for reelection against three challengers, and if all are certified for the ballot, it will represent the most candidates for the board in at least 22 years.
Richard Aquadro, 63, a third-generation commercial carpenter and a 20-year member of Smith Vocational’s carpentry advisory board, said Thursday that he pulled nomination papers this week.
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NORTHAMPTON As the names of the city’s veterans who have died over the past year were read aloud at Park Street Cemetery in Florence Monday morning, members of the Junior Girl Scouts Troop 64642 placed flowers at the gravestones for several.
AGAWAM Steve Cimma, an Air Force veteran, member of Agawam American Legion Post 185 and one of the organizers behind the town’s Memorial Day observances, wove his way through a crowd of onlookers Monday and peered up Main Street toward the distant sound of advancing marchers. “This does us good,” he said of the parade. “It’s good to see people coming together again. It’s good to see people .