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Sunlight Act on move, targeting legislature and governor

01-28-2024 10:02 AM

BOSTON — While the bill has a long path ahead of it, advocates for more government transparency are encouraged that a House-Senate committee on Tuesday gave a favorable report to a bill whose sponsors say it will bring needed “sunlight” to the...


Residents seek answers to big housing development at old Belchertown State Hospital

01-26-2024 3:59 PM

BELCHERTOWN — Donna Buxton hears every day that many Belchertown residents have no idea that a 108-unit residential development may be built on the old state school property off State Street.Prior to the creation of the Economic Development...


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Unknown no more: WWII sailor finally comes home to Holyoke

Photos: Dinosaurs Galore 

Easthampton Mayor LaChapelle tapped to lead state Mayors’ Association

Hitting it big for wrong reasons: In ‘American Fiction’ at Amherst Cinema, writer’s pastiche hailed as authentic

Columnist Susan Wozniak: Tracking my life through a small place

‘A natural, beautiful medicine’: NHS student, aspiring pianist plays for patients at CDH

A Look Back: Jan. 29

“Nice call, ref”: Pulling back the curtain in regard to the high school basketball officiating situation in western Massachusetts

Sports
Hockey: Charlie Fijal nets 5 goals in Belchertown’s 6-6 tie with McCann Tech (PHOTOS)
01-26-2024 11:04 PM

AMHERST — Trailing 5-3 to McCann Tech entering the third period, the Belchertown hockey team made it clear in the locker room during the second intermission that it wasn’t going to lose on its senior night.Charlie Fijal took matters into his own hands...

High schools: Hopkins Academy girls basketball gets 1st win over Athol
01-26-2024 10:00 PM

For the first time all season, the Hopkins Academy girls basketball checked off one in the win column on Friday night.Ten different players scored points, and the balanced Golden Hawks built a double-digit halftime lead en route to a 40-29 victory...

Swimming: Senior Day the culimination of a fun season for Amherst, Northampton programs
01-26-2024 9:50 PM

AMHERST — The bleachers alongside Amherst Middle School’s pool filled with supporters of the Amherst and Northampton boys and girls swim teams as the ‘Canes hosted their senior night in their final dual meet of the season on Friday evening.Amherst...

Boys basketball: Greenfield handles Hopkins Academy in HL South action (PHOTOS)
01-26-2024 9:48 PM

GREENFIELD — It was going to be a challenge for the Hopkins Academy boys basketball team on Friday against Greenfield. The Green Wave, which currently has the top record in the Hampshire League South, were able to get what they wanted offensively,...

Analysis: Mahomes and the Chiefs must win a Super Bowl this season to challenge Patriots’ dynasty
01-26-2024 4:00 PM

If Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are going to challenge Tom Brady and the New England Patriots’ unprecedented two-decade run of success, they have to win a Super Bowl this season.Mahomes and the defending champion Chiefs are facing their...

Opinion
Guest columnist Dan Peters: No, you bleep: Refs have had enough
01-29-2024 9:31 AM

Imagine being at your workplace trying to perform your job duties and you hear your boss yell the following comments directed at you:“That’s terrible!”“Open up your eyes.”“You blew that one!”“Where are your glasses?!?!”Can you imagine trying to work...

Guest columnist Daniel Cantor Yalowitz: Why does winning have to mean someone loses?
01-29-2024 7:01 AM

“Winning is not everything, it’s the only thing.” — Vince Lombardi (1955)We live in an increasingly ultra-competitive world. In the U.S., our children are trained from an early age not only about determination, discipline, and persistence, but also...

Matteo Pangallo: All the ‘good’ Trump did
01-28-2024 10:01 PM

A letter in the Jan. 25 Gazette urges us to remember “all the good Trump did when he was in office.” I would agree with that suggestion, and to make it easier for other readers to do as that letter suggests, I’ve prepared the following detailed list...

Randi Stein: Should try connecting with her tribe
01-28-2024 9:01 PM

I am offended and bewildered by the words of guest columnist Sarena Neyman, who says she is “losing her tribe over Gaza.” [“Losing my tribe over Gaza,” Gazette, Jan. 20]. While I want to hasten to say I too have come to a position that a cease-fire...

Guest columnist Rutherford H. Platt: Reasons to question ‘trophy projects’
01-26-2024 7:01 PM

On Jan. 5, 2023, the Northampton City Council celebrated the new year by allocating $1 million to each of Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra’s two trophy projects: “Picture Main Street” and the Resilience Hub. These amounts were drawn from the COVID-era...

UMass
UMass basketball: Matt Cross leads balanced Minutemen past Saint Louis for first A-10 road wi
01-27-2024 11:11 PM

Matt Cross led four players in double figures, scoring 19 points to propel the UMass men’s basketball team to an 84-73 Atlantic 10 Conference victory over Saint Louis on Saturday night at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Mo.The Minutemen won on the road...

UMass basketball: Minutewomen drop 7th game in a row in 63-48 loss at Rhode Island
01-27-2024 10:55 PM

The UMass women's basketball team fell on the road at Rhode Island on Saturday afternoon in the Ryan Center, 63-48.It was the seventh loss in a row for UMass, which fell to 3-18 overall, 1-8 in the Atlantic 10.Stefanie Kulesza led the Minutewomen in...

UMass basketball: Minutemen look to rebound against Saint Louis; Minutewomen hope to snap skid at URI
01-26-2024 4:43 PM

After winning two of its first three Atlantic 10 Conference games, the UMass men’s basketball team has now lost three of its last four – including two crushing defeats at the buzzer stemming from an inability to rebound down the stretch.The Minutemen...

Slow start dooms UMass women’s basketball against Davidson 
01-24-2024 9:22 PM

A slow start plagued the UMass women’s basketball team in its 72-42 road loss to Davidson on Wednesday night. The Minutewomen scored just eight points in the first quarter and found themselves down nine at the end of the frame. Although UMass played...

UMass basketball: Minutemen to host La Salle, Minutewomen on the road at Richmond
01-09-2024 4:33 PM

AMHERST — The effort and no-quit attitude that the UMass men’s basketball team showed against Dayton on Sunday was a promising sign for the Minutemen moving forward.UMass’ 64-60 loss on the road was the closest the Minutemen have come to beating the...

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Arts & Life
‘Creole love call’: Gombo launches new music series starting Feb. 2 with jazz reedman Evan Arntzen
01-26-2024 2:18 PM

When John Piskor opened his Cajun-style restaurant, Gombo Nola Kitchen & Oyster Bar, in Northampton last year, he said he eventually wanted it to turn it into something akin to a New Orleans cafe, where people come out for a drink and live music after...

HomeBoxAlt Earth Matters: Facing the ‘age of humans’: Should a new epoch, the Anthropocene, be initiated to reflect human impact on Earth?
01-26-2024 12:35 PM

As I concentrated on the computer screen, the news played in the background. A story about the environment got my attention, causing me to sit back and listen more carefully. I played the piece again to be sure I heard it correctly.In summer 2023, the...

HomeBoxAlt Staying in the game: Veteran actors and teachers Raye and Candace Birk are still involved with theater after decades of performance
01-25-2024 3:02 PM

Looking for some talented older actors who can play a wide range of roles? Who have decades of experience in theater, film and television?Raye Birk and Candace Barrett Birk are at your service.The Florence couple, relatively new transplants to the...

HomeBoxAlt The Beat Goes On: A busy couple of weeks at The Drake, a new acoustic music series in Holyoke, and more
01-25-2024 2:58 PM

In my last column, I mentioned that The Parlor Room in Northampton and the Marigold Theater are maintaining busy schedules right through these early, dead-of-winter days.Another area venue that keeps pumping up the music is The Drake in Amherst, and...

HomeBoxAlt Speaking of Nature: Drama at the feeders: The arrival of winter means the arrival of some foul-weather friends
01-24-2024 10:30 AM

It appears as though winter has finally arrived. November and December (most of which is technically autumn) were very mild and all through the Christmas break the high temperatures were consistently above freezing. This resulted in little to no snow...

Obituaries
Diana L. Adair

Amherst, MA - Diana L. Adair, 70, passed away January 22, 2024. Born in Northampton, MA on July 26, 1953, she was the daughter of Howard I. Mann Sr. and Marietta Tataro. Diana grew up in Be... Read More

Philip Stanton Hall

Florence, MA - Philip Stanton Hall of Florence, MA passed away peacefully on January 22, 2024, surrounded by his loving family. He was 89. Philip was born January 30, 1934 in Bennington... Read More

William J. O'Neil

Hadley, MA - William J. O'Neil, 80, of Hadley, passed away surrounded by his family at the Cooley Dickinson Hospital on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. He was born in Cambridge, MA on July 24, 19... Read More

Annick Porter

Amherst, MA - Annick Porter, beloved mother, grandmother, and friend, died December 3, 2023. It was her dear departed husband's birthday. She would have cooed at the coincidence. Annick was... Read More

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