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100
The word that got an Easthampton superintendent candidate disqualified from consideration.

Ladies

100
Domenic Sarno ends each of his speeches with this phrase.

God bless you, God bless your family and God bless the city of Springfield.

100

What does General Manager Fran Smith count in our newspapers?

Faces

100
According to Reminder style, how do we identify the largest university in Western Mass on first and subsequent references?

University of Massachusetts Amherst and UMass Amherst

100

This business was formerly located in Monson's newest dispensary - Dazed Cannabis.

The Magic Lantern

100

This Wilbraham School Committee member referred to a member of the public at a meeting as a "tool bag."

Bill Bontempi

200

In this community, from 2022 to 2023 superintendent Jahmal Mosley was placed on paid leave for nine months until he ultimately resigned in a one-sentence letter.

South Hadley

200

This mayor wore a Batman outfit in front of City Hall at Holloween and posted it to social media.

Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia

200

How many towns does The Reminder cover?

50

200

This is an acceptable term for marijuana under AP style in limited uses, but not for Reminder style?

Reefer

200

This community recently had a human who was ejected from their car dragged off by a bear.

Hatfield

200

This state representative captioned one of his Instagram photos of himself "cut from a different cloth, they don't make it anymore."

Orlando Ramos

300
This former Chicopee superintendent sent threatening messages to a chief of police candidate who she was having an affair with.

Lynn Clark

300

This mayor got into hot water in 2022 for commenting on a student "not acting white."

Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle

300

In what year did The Reminder purchase the Westfield News?

2019

300

What does Payton insist we cannot do with a meeting?

Hold

300

This former Westfield Police Detective had a 48 Hours special come out about him last week detailing the alleged murder and/or suicide of his wife.

Brian Fanion

300

This state senator consistently brings his mother to events he attends.

Jake Oliveira

400

These type of claims at Amherst Middle School initially published in a student newspaper led to the resignation of its superintendent.

Transphobic and homophobic treatment of students by teachers and counselors.

400

This former Western Mass. mayor currently runs a packing and shipping store with his twin brother.

Richard Cohen

400

Former Executive Editor Mike Dobbs refers to himself as this, and also recently named his podcast the same phrase.

An ink stained wretch.

400

What datelines would be placed on stories from Leeds, Feeding Hills and Thorndike?

Northampton, Agawam and Palmer

400

This town in Hampden County has residents of a mobile home community in upheaval as they currently struggle with their landlord.

Ludlow

400

Southwick Police Chief-elect Rhett Bannish committed this violation not once, but twice.

Fourth Amendment Rights Violation

500
This former superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers Home has been accused of mishandling 2020's deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.

Bennett Walsh

500

This current sitting mayor was the first mayor elected in his community from 1990 to 2000, took 23 years off from mayoral duties, and was elected as mayor once again in 2023.

Agawam Mayor Christopher Johnson

500

What married couple founded The Reminder in 1962 (first and last names.)

Carlo and Anne Buendo
500

This piece of punctuation is not included after the second item in a list of three.

Oxford comma

500

In this community, a select board member was threatened with violence and later resigned after not voting to renew town administrator Gary Brougham's contract.

Belchertown

500

Holyoke City Councilor Michael Sullivan controversially used this phrase in 2017 to push efforts to stop panhandling.

"Don't feed the animals."

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