Staasi Heropoulos

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Danny Richard performs at the music festival Local Mojo organized in 2024. Local Mojo is planning a music festival in Hadley later this month. (Submitted photo)submitted photo

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HOLYOKE — The distant sound of a police siren drifted through an open door at the Wistariahurst Museum, as if it was taunting those who created the images and essays Megan Seiler was hanging on the walls. The artists and writers are men and women in prison—some serving decades in detention, others awaiting execution.

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When the federal government ordered cities and towns across the country to determine whether pipes in their public water systems contain lead, the superintendent of Southampton’s Water Department could not get all of the information the Environmental Protection Agency was demanding. Brett Simmons told The Republican information about pipes leading into nearly 700 homes and other buildings is unknown.

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NORTHAMPTON — The Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence is about to launch a year-long search for a new minister, and the congregation is counting on the Rev. Eric Cherry. He’s there to ensure everyone is happy, with no hard feelings when the next minister is installed. Cherry is the society’s interim minister. He knows the job is his only until the congregation finds its new spiritual leader. “I’m committed to leaving after the two-year period is over,” Cherry said in an interview.

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LONGMEADOW— When Eric Lesser celebrates the beginning of Passover in April by holding a Seder dinner with his family, the former state senator from Longmeadow will recall the night former President Barrack Obama toasted the Jewish holiday with him when Lesser was a junior staffer on Obama’s first presidential campaign. Fresh out of college after attending Longmeadow High School, Lesser was in charge of getting the campaign’s luggage from one stop to another.