This week’s letter
Hard hats in Westfield, printing presses in Deerfield
The YMCA of Greater Westfield broke ground last week on a new welcome center, pavilion, and bathhouse at Camp Shepard, with CEO Andrea Allard taking the first sledgehammer swing on demo day.
- FridayWilson Printing Office
- FridayUMass Men's Basketball vs Boston College
- SaturdayYuletide at the Stone House Museum
- SaturdayMillinery: Revolutionary War Era Fashion and Dressmaking
· In every issue ·
Five sections, one letter.
We have edited it down so you do not have to.
- 01This WeekendFive to seven things worth leaving the house for, with the time, the place and the price.
- 02Kids CornerThings to do with the kids, with the ages and the cost up front.
- 03Real Estate PulseThis week's mortgage rates and what they mean for a buyer in the Valley.
- 04Around TownOpenings, closings, town meetings and oddities, a line or two each.
- 05Local WinsOne good story from a neighbor to end on.
From the editor
Issue 026
The Valley Weekly began as the email I wanted to read on Tuesday mornings, and could not find anywhere. Something that respected my time. Something that knew the difference between a good Thai place and a great one. Something that did not try to sell me a course.
So I made it. Every Tuesday, we pull together what is worth knowing in the Valley this week: the events we would go to ourselves, the restaurants we would send a friend to, the houses on the market that have a story. Some weeks the letter is 800 words. Some weeks it is 1,200. Always a handful of sections. Always Tuesday.
If this is your first Tuesday with us, welcome. If you have been here a while, thanks for sticking around.
Neal Quesnel
Editor, The Valley Weekly
Get it Tuesday, before everyone else does.
One letter, every Tuesday. No clickbait, no twelve-tab newsletter sprawl. Just what is worth your weekend.
Recent issues
Twenty-seven issues since May 5. Every Tuesday since May 19, not a week skipped.
- Nº 025
Oct 27 Houdini & Halloween One hundred years ago this Saturday, at 1:26 in the afternoon, Harry Houdini died in a Detroit hospital. - Nº 024
Oct 20 Gravestones, Ghosts, and Ghouls Halloween weekend fills the Valley from Deerfield to Springfield: Deerfield After Dark runs its final two nights Friday and Saturday at $30 a ticket, Historic Deerfield adds an all-day Graveyards and Gravestones program Saturday, and the Springfield Museums open their Halloween Quadrangle loop Saturday at 10am. - Nº 023
Oct 13 Haunted Trains, Bonfires and a 4-time Winner Look Park's Haunted Train runs ten nights starting Thursday October 15 in Florence, and the Hatfield Bonfire Festival lights up Saturday the 17th at 15 Billings Way with Giovannie and the Hired Guns for $35 a ticket. - Nº 022
Oct 6 Ashfield Fall Fest, Brew + Cider, and 9 more for the long weekend It's a three-day weekend, and This Weekend has 11 picks, a few more than usual. - Nº 021
Sept 29 Grenadiers, ghost walks, and climbing rates Mortgage rates jumped hard this week: the 30-year fixed hit 7.03% and the 10-year Treasury climbed 24 basis points in a single week, reversing any hope of a fall dip for Valley buyers. - Nº 020
Sept 22 Your October Guide to the Valley is Live October is the best month of the year in the Valley.
Reference pages we maintain
Updated continuously
- DirectoryBreweriesTaprooms across the Valley, by town, with their hours.
- DirectoryCoffee ShopsIndependent coffee shops across the Valley, by town, with their hours.
- DirectoryBreakfast SpotsDiners, bakeries and brunch, by town, with their hours.
- DirectoryFarmers MarketsEvery market by day of the week. Addresses, hours and seasons.
- SeasonalNovember in the ValleyCiderDays, craft fairs, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving weekend, weekend by weekend.
- NewsletterThe ArchiveEvery issue, back to the first one.