“We’ve got a system in place where it’s just, grab this money from mostly poor people, but don’t have mechanisms in place to really account for what’s taken.”
AMHERST A local man who was acquitted in the death of a pedestrian struck by the school van he was driving in 2019, and the town of Amherst as his employer are facing a civil lawsuit from the victim’s family seeking at least $100,000 in.
A new leader at Valley Community DevelopmentNORTHAMPTON Valley Community Development last month hired Alexis Breiteneicher as its new executive director. Breiteneicher comes to Valley Community Development after almost eight years at Community.