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06-20-2025 4:12 PM

AMHERST — Graduate student Josie Pilchik’s career plans dissolved with just one email.


Celebrating freedom with joy: Amherst’s 16th Juneteenth Jubilee showcases music, culture and resilience

06-20-2025 4:15 PM

AMHERST — The auditorium at St. Brigid’s church swelled with sound Thursday evening as more than 100 people swayed, clapped and sang along to the Black national anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Spirits were as high as the temperature outside — which had reached 90 degrees — as people celebrated Juneteenth with music, food and community.


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Guest columnist Jon Huer: Trump’s new America
06-20-2025 11:01 AM

Liberals and Democrats are agitated out of their minds over Trump’s many transgressions. Virtually everything Trump does — so radically different from every presidential behavior we have ever known — aggravates them. They cry out: “Why isn’t he more like the other presidents?”

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Study to determine feasibility of connecting Deerfield, Whately industrial parks
06-20-2025 8:01 AM

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The few hundred feet of undeveloped land between Industrial Drive West in Deerfield and Fairview Way in Whately, which separates the two communities’ industrial parks, was once jokingly referred to as the “DMZ,” or demilitarized zone, by Whately’s former police chief in 1995.

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‘I’ve met friends in my books’: Eric Carle Museum celebrates author, illustrator Grace Lin with retrospective exhibition
06-20-2025 10:45 AM

Florence-based author and illustrator Grace Lin is known for books like “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” (for which she received a Newbery Honor in 2010), “The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon,” “The Ugly Vegetables,” and “A Big Mooncake for Little Star” (for which she received a Caldecott Honor in 2019). Now, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst is celebrating Lin’s work with a career retrospective.

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Christopher "Chris" H. Hillios Seminole, FL - IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER H. HILLIOS June 1, 2025 Loving Husband, Father, Grandfather and Inventor Christopher "Chris" H. Hillios, 79, passed away peacefully into the arms of the Lord... remainder of obit for Christopher H. Hillios

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Elena (Lella) Gandini Little Northampton, MA - It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of Elena (Lella) Gandini Little, a renowned educator, author, and tireless advocate for early childhood education, who died on June 16, 2025,... remainder of obit for Elena Gandini Little

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Easthampton, MA - Carl Gauger of Easthampton, MA passed away peacefully on May 28, 2025 at Care One in Northampton. He was born in Northampton September 3, 1930 the son of Carl and Margaret (Keohler) Gauger. He was raised in Easthampton... remainder of obit for Carl Gauger

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GREENFIELD, MA - Gerald R. Carey, Jr. passed away on June 12th with family at his side. He was the son of the late Gerald Sr. and Charlotte Carey. He will be greatly missed by his family. He leaves his sons Jim (Kate) and Jerry (Ale... remainder of obit for Gerald R. Carey Jr.

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