Circle K....now known as Irving gas station Whately, MA

The 2 circle K gas stations across the street from each other in town are called Irving 


now. This one doesn't have as many pumps as the other so it's usually a lot less busy 


so I usually go here if I have a choice. ATM is a Bank America vestibule though so 


that's A DEFINATE NEGATIVE, I WOULDN'T TAKE OR GIVE A PENNY TO ANYTHING WITH 


THAT DISHONEST, THEIVING, SHADY BUSINESS NAME ON IT. Great friendly staff and i've 


even hit for a few hundred multiple times on $2 scratch tickets as well so that made 


up for the -1 the BOA atm was going to give.






Irving view using Google Maps




It's incredible how great the coverage has grown to for Google Maps and Earth. This photo is for the Irving Circle K gas station which I added because I did a quick  review on the station. It's not terrible but i've seen much much better clarity on other ones....when I looked up my old apartment last year when it first came out I could see my car so perfectly in detail that I could read my license plate from all the way down driveway across the street. (To be honest I don't really like just how easily someone could use these apps to commit several serious crimes. 

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Georgio's Restaurant- South Deerfield, MA

Georgios Restaurant-Business has been closed. New ownership opened Primo's

4 Sugarloaf St, South Deerfield, MA

(413) 665-3300 ‎

GEORGIO'S NO LONGER EXISTS! BUILDING WAS SOLD TO A DIFFERENT OWNER WHO NOW IS RUNNING PRIMO'S HOWEVER, I'LL COMMENT ABOUT GEORGIO'S A LITTLE. Georgio's had literally the worst pizza and service I have EVER had at a place that attempted to pretend to be "nice" 2 of the first 3 times I ordered the foreign waitress they had answering the phone got my order wrong, and there was a bartender that was an english speaking american standing next to the phone as well. That is one of my biggest annoyances

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Small World Pre-school+ Child

Small World Preschool & Child 

52 Sugarloaf Street, South Deerfield, MA 01373-1144

(413) 665-4501 ‎smallworldsouthdeerfield.com

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Fantastic preschool! All of the staff is so helpful and they are all amazing with the kids. When a friend of ours went to visit to look into sending their daughter they staying for an hour watching different groups and didn't even go home to talk first, wrote a check to hold their spot that moment. Seems to really be a caring place from the kids, teachers, owner and parents. They have different events like a hike one sunday with a picnic for all the fathers and the kids to spend time together, and the teachers volunteer their time. How great is that? You don't see that very often. Overall just a 5 star place and I'd recommend absolutely sending your children if you live within a reasonable distance. One parent drives almost a half hour just to bring her child because she's so happy there.

Police Departments- Local Western Mass Towns

Deerfield Police Department: For years the Deerfield police department was a solid group of veteran policemen that all lived locally and had built longterm relationships with the community as a whole earning them respect with almost everyone. They had a job to do but balanced the need of having a positive re-pore. Knowing when to give a simple warning on the first nice day of spring rather then a speeding ticket can go a long way in a small town. In a place like this where news spreads like wildfire the poor treatment of citizens won't be kept quiet and won't be tolerated. By poor treatment I don't mean a needless speeding ticket either though, it's obnoxious but not something to stage a protest about.

The department has now shifted to bringing in a younger generation of officers by sending local applicants to the academy and then hiring them afterwards. Out of the total of 6 or 7 full time police officers working in the town 3/4 are from the "old guard" and I went to school with at least 3 of them. 1 a year below me, 1 in my class and 1 a year or 2 years ahead of me. This is the kind of hire that could really help the community by having officers that can relate and easily communicate with the citizens along with working knowledge of possible trouble areas and overall knowledge of roads and landmarks.

However, they happened to choose guys who don't exactly scream "Thank you for being a citizen in this town, we are here to serve and protect you and if there is anything you need were always here" More of the kind of guys that wear sunglasses indoors in the summer, hand out tickets to people like there is an expiration date on each one and one has set the record for most tickets/overall money brought into the town by those tickets in a month+quarter. That's quite the accomplishment for someone that has only been working there a couple years and there has been a department for a little while longer I think, haha.

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Western Massachusetts Reviews.....as of 11/12/11

Thinking of visting New England? Going on a trip to Massachusetts? Maybe catch a Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics or Bruins game? Planning on taking route 2 or 91/Mass Pike? Well, your going to need where to stop for any number of things and these are the reviews to let you know what's popular for the locals and tourists like Yankee Candle, where the quaint little lunch spot is that out of towners won't know about like the Bridgeside Grill and where you should stay away from if you want to make your trip nausia free, or at least what part of the menu to avoid if you stop at a place like Frontier Pizza.....Here we go!

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