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Frontier Regional girls capture Division 2 track & field championship

Saturday, May 18, 2013

BUCKLAND — The Frontier Regional girls track & field team may have had a 107-meet winning streak snapped this season, but on Friday night the Red Hawks showed the rest of the District F & G Division 2 field that they are still a force to be reckoned with. The Red Hawks finished with more than twice as many points as their nearest opponent to win the championship at Mohawk … 0

Friday’s high school baseball: Easthampton rallies to keep postseason alive

Friday, May 17, 2013

The Easthampton baseball gave its postseason hopes a significant shot in the arm Friday as the Eagles came from behind to beat Athol 2-1 in eight innings at home. After Shy Torres and Zach Lewis were each hit by pitches with one out in the eighth, reliever Bradley Bousquet surrendered a walk-off RBI single by Chris Starcun down the right-field line. The win … 0

Friday’s high schools: Krystel Enko strikes out 23 in Frontier 11-inning win over Taconic

Friday, May 17, 2013

For 11 innings, Frontier Regional softball pitcher Krystel Enko kept sending Taconic batters directly from the plate to the dugout Friday in South Deerfield. Enko struck out 23, allowed zero earned runs on four hits and one walk before the Red Hawks scored in the bottom of the 11th for a 4-3 victory over Taconic. “She got stronger as the game went on,” … 0

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Kristin Gross of Northampton, left, forces out Madison Grande of East Longmeadow on a hit from Mary Edwards Friday in Northampton. JERREY ROBERTS Northampton softball suffers another tough loss
Rear view of the Florence Community Center at 140 Pine Street in Florence. KEVIN GUTTING Florence Community Center tenants wary of change as building sale nears
Diezel, a Dutch Shepherd police dog owned by UMass Canine Officer Liana Varosky, searches Thursday for marijuana in vehicles during a K9 training event held at UMass. The task is part of the yearly certification required for all police dogs. SARAH CROSBY ‘They won’t mess with a dog’ ... At UMass K9 training, dogs build, prove police skills
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Naomi Cairns listens to the Yeskie families victim statement at the sentencing of Anthony Baye Wednesday morning in Northampton.

'For more than two years, an entire neighborhood lived in fear'

Friday, May 17, 2013

In those awful days following the fires set Dec. 27, 2009, people set up beds for themselves on living room couches to stand guard against an unknown arsonist. Less than 12 hours after the first fire ignited with … 0

left, Erica Desreuisseau, Elaine Yeskie's grandaughter, and Elaine Yeskie listen to special prosecutor, Brett Vottero at the press conference held after the sentencing of Anthony Baye Wednesday morning in Northampton.

Many heroes emerge from one awful night Dec. 27, 2009

Friday, May 17, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — Amid the accounting of the terrible deeds done and the pain and suffering caused by the arson spree that befell this city Dec. 27, 2009, were some stories of heroic behavior and public servants who went … 0

Defense attorney David Hoose speaks to Debra Baye with defense attorney Thomas Lesser in the background before the sentencing.

Response of Northampton to deadly fires praised

Friday, May 17, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — Minutes after Anthony Baye was shackled and led out of court to begin serving his prison sentence, Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan said, “The journey to justice has ended.” Sullivan spoke at a press conference … 0

Litany of arson, attempted arson stretches back to early 2007

Friday, May 17, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — When Anthony Baye pleaded guilty in Hampden Superior Court Monday, he admitted to 36 charges connected to a string of fires on Dec. 27, 2009, and 12 additional charges related to earlier fires, dating back to 2007. The following is a list of all 48 charges … 0

Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz to unveil budget to council

Friday, May 17, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council will get a look at next year’s proposed operating budget when it gathers tonight, though the information will come with one big Proposition 2½ asterisk. Mayor David J. Narkewicz is set to submit the budget for fiscal 2014 without figures from a $2.5 … 1

Ryan D. Welch, shown during his arraignment in September, is scheduled to be tried beginning June 10 for the murder of his girlfriend Jessica Ann Pripstein. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO

Easthampton slaying trial of Ryan Welch pushed back one week

Friday, May 17, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — Two days after setting a trial date for the murder trial of Ryan Welch, Hampshire Superior Court Judge Bertha Josephson pushed the date back a week to June 17 to allow Welch more time to review … 0

Proposed Easthampton Stop & Shop heads to court again May 28

Friday, May 17, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — A Hampshire Superior Court hearing on the last count standing in a lawsuit challenging a proposed supermarket on Route 10 in Easthampton will take place May 28. At that hearing, Mark A. Tanner, attorney for Kenneth Cernak of Cernak Buick, will argue that the Easthampton Planning … 0

Big Sandy

Clubland: Big Sandy and his boys fly right at Iron Horse

Friday, May 17, 2013

Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys is a band out of time. It speaks my grandfather’s vocabulary of pre-Beatles pop music, of songs aimed at the dance floor, guitar-driven tunes that kick it up on the common ground … 1

Weekend planner — art

Friday, May 17, 2013

Did you know that the Graham cracker was invented by Northampton’s Sylvester Graham as part of a health food diet intended to suppress carnal urges leading to self-abuse? We hope not. In any case, such a fact is … 0

Weekend planner — club

Friday, May 17, 2013

Sometimes called “The James Taylor of Scotland,” Dougie MacLean is known for his rich imagery, lyrical melodies and a folk style deeply rooted in his native heritage. “Caledonia,” his stirring ballad about the yearning evoked by separation from … 0

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