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BY LARRY PARNASS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 2018 THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE PITTSFIELD — Each month, more than 700 people find their way to a building in the city’s Westside neighborhood. They […]

BY MELINA BOURDEAU SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 2018 THE RECORDER GREENFIELD — Residents will have a chance to consider and discuss the use of the Community Development Block Grant at a […]

BY ELIZABETH DONOGHUE DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE OCTOBER 8TH, 2018   Ear year on Shelter Sunday, community members and volunteers raise money for the homeless and hungry in Amherst and [...]

BY MELINA BOURDEAU THE RECORDER SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2018   GREENFIELD — The tape and sawhorses will be removed and the benches will be put back on the Common on Monday, according to […]

BY SUSAN STUBBS THE RECORDER SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2018   Homelessness is a complex issue, and it’s becoming more so. The opioid epidemic, plus funding cuts to vital support programs, and […]

THE RECORDER SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2018   Homelessness has bedeviled Greenfield and the region for years. An overnight “emergency” shelter was established with state money decades ago, yet the [...]

BY JOSHUA  SOLOMON THE RECORDER SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2018   GREENFIELD — First went Justin Costa from the Center for Self Reliance, then Mary McClintock of Community Action, followed by Elizabeth [...]

BY MICHAEL HUTTON-WOODLAND DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2018   The article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, “Baystate touts rooming-in program for drug-dependent babies, mothers,” [...]

By Joshua Solomon, Staff Writer The Recorder September 1st, 2018   GREENFIELD — The plan to quickly provide more shelter beds for the homeless, especially those who had camped on […]

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 2018 DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE   After Carol Elderkin was “left for dead” at age 10 by a hit-and-run driver in a pickup truck near the Topsfield Fair, […]