Jim Kinney

The 21-year-old restaurant, with its expansive views from atop Mount Tom, remains open.

Square One classrooms serving about 200 children will be staffed with supervisors and other current Square One employees who are licensed educators.

Square One management opened its classrooms Tuesday staffed with full-licensed employees from management and staff roles.

On Tuesday, state Sen. John Velis, who represents Holyoke, called for data centers themselves to bear the cost of meeting their power and water needs.

Organizers are hopeful, weather permitting, to have the river swim that was cancelled last year.

Easthampton City Council voted in November to back workers' rights to unionize, a move urged by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1459.

The faculty union had voted no confidence.

Baystate says it is seeing fewer patients, and people are delaying non-urgent and elective care with disruptions in insurance, economic uncertainty and inflation.

The purchase protects the source of water for the Hannum Brook and the Manhan River.

SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Health confirmed Friday that it cut jobs this week, saying it is $60 million behind budget.