Hilltown Community Health Centers lands $1.8 million grant
Hilltown Community Health Centers Executive Director Eliza Lake talks about the opening of the new John P. Musante Health Center in the Bangs Center in Amherst during a tour of the facility on June 7, 2018. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 4/1/2021 7:44:17 PM
WORTHINGTON Hilltown Community Health Centers has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the American Rescue Plan Act, the largest financial infusion in the nonprofit’s history and part of $7.6 billion in funding approved for community health centers nationwide.
“It’s so fantastic we don’t know what to do yet,” said Hilltown Community Health Centers Chief Executive Officer Eliza Lake.
Officials tour maple sugar houses to celebrate year’s 1st crop
Paul Zononi, co-owner of Paul’s Sugar House, talks with state Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Kathleen Theoharides during a visit Monday. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Published: 3/8/2021 7:51:15 PM
WILLIAMSBURG Following a record-breaking year, maple sugarers Paul and Serena Zononi hosted a delegation of state officials who came to celebrate the maple crop.
Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Kathleen Theoharides and other dignitaries toured three different area maple syrup producers on Monday in recognition of Massachusetts Maple Month.
March was declared Massachusetts Maple Month by Gov. Charlie Baker this year, and in a release announcing the tour it was noted that annual maple production is worth more than $5 million to state farmers.
Hilltowners share fond memories of Shultz
George Shultz and his wife, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, are seen at the Fourth of July parade in Chesterfield in 1997. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 2/8/2021 8:16:58 PM
CUMMINGTON When Steve Magargal was 12-years-old, he caddied for George Shultz for the first time at the Worthington Golf Club, now The Links At Worthington. The pair would become good friends and years later Magargal, the owner and operator of Listons Bar & Grill, and Shultz, who served as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan, played a final round of golf together. Shultz was 93 at the time.
“He almost shot his age,” said Magargal. “It was pretty impressive.”
Published: 1/12/2021 10:28:23 AM
WORTHINGTON Route 143 isn’t the busiest of roadways. But thanks to a multimillion-dollar federally funded project, it now has a roundabout.
The roundabout is at the intersection of Old North Road, Huntington Road, Buffington Hill Road, and Williamsburg Road. So far reactions to the roundabout, which opened to traffic in 2020, have been mixed.
“People don’t like change,” said Charley Rose, chairman of the Worthington Select Board.
Rose said that some of the feedback has to do with how it feels to drive around the roundabout without its second layer of paving, which is scheduled to be put in this year. He also said that if a vehicle is too big to make the turn, the roundabout can be driven through.