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By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY/AMHERST — One of the region’s largest independent and assisted living communities is in the middle of a significant renovation at its Amherst and South Hadley locations that it says will provide more apartments, add community spaces and...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — When Paul C. Robillard’s B-17 bomber went down over Europe on Oct. 4, 1943, he had no idea where he landed. A farmer approached Robillard and his crew, so Robillard took the opportunity to get his bearings. He asked the farmer a...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Voters will decide whether to approve a new senior tax work-off program and fund an additional assistant principal at the high school at a special Town Meeting on Wednesday.Half of the 12-article warrant establishes fees to generate...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A week after six South Hadley High School staff members were physically assaulted by students in three separate incidents, the School Committee and Select Board agreed this week to ask residents to approve funding for a second assistant...

By Emilee Klein

NORTHAMPTON — In the dim pink light of the Majestic Saloon on Main Street, people pack around tables watching “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” interrupting the movie playing on a screen above the bar every few minutes with an innuendo said in unison or...

By SHELBY BROCK

SHUTESBURY — By a vote of 40-37, residents at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting narrowly shot down a bylaw that would ban public access to the Lake Wyola Dam and institute fines for trespassers.Other topics on the 33-article warrant that merited the most...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Rather than stopping criminals, more gun laws in Massachusetts will only serve to punish “law-abiding citizens.”That was the message from a majority of those who spoke before a panel of experts as part of a comprehensive review of the...

By JAMES PENTLAND

After taking in the largest number of dogs it has received in a single rescue effort in its 54-year history last month in Plainfield, the Dakin Humane Society has made good progress in finding homes for them.“We have so many applications for them that...

By BERA DUNAU

BOSTON — A bill introduced by state Rep. Dan Carey, D-Easthampton, would make fleeing from the police in a vehicle in a reckless or negligent manner a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $2,500.“This proposed...

By BERA DUNAU

The lessons we learn as children can echo throughout our lifetime, sometimes emerging in crucial, defining moments.This was certainly the case for Britt Slabinski, as he sat on the ramp of a helicopter in Afghanistan in 2002, contemplating ordering...

By LISA SPEAR

Editor’s note: In this monthly column writer Lisa Spear indulges her sweet tooth by sampling desserts made at area restaurants.The bitter lavender flower isn’t an ingredient I would expect to find in a cream puff, so it caught me by surprise when I...

By LISA SPEAR

A Japanese maple tree with windswept branches leans to one side as if hanging off a mountain cliff —  but this tree has never seen high altitudes and the air here is mostly still.The tree lives in Jim Gipe’s backyard in Northampton in a shallow...

By LISA SPEAR

When polio swept the nation in the early to mid 20th century, Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton had a ward full of cribs for sick babies. Some children spent weeks in the hospital, behind glass, not able to touch another human being, survivors...