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By GARRETT COTE AND CONNOR PIGNATELLO

AMHERST — For a coach who’s been in the business for as long as UMass football head coach Don Brown has, it’s hard to find something he hasn’t already seen.But during the Minutemen’s month of spring practice, they impressed the longtime coach with...

By JAMES PENTLAND and ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — State Sen. Jo Comerford was at home in Northampton on a Zoom call Friday morning when her home suddenly started shaking.“I thought maybe it was ice falling off the roof,” Comerford said. “It was quite jarring.” Leeds resident Jeffrey...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALLand CHRIS LARABEE

SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal touted a new tax relief bill passed by the House of Representatives this week, and shared his views on U.S. foreign policy during a gathering with the press on Friday morning.Speaking in the atrium inside the...

By GARRETT COTE and HANNAH BEVIS

The first PVIAC indoor track meet of the season took place at Smith College on Sunday, with five Hampshire County teams in action. Three local teams turned in perfect days, as South Hadley, Northampton, and Hampshire boys and girls teams led the way...

By GARRETT COTE and JEFF LAJOIE

AMHERST — A little over a week ago, the University of Delaware announced a move to Conference USA in all sports, part of the football team’s move up from FCS. A popular connection among Hampshire County fans was that UMass would make a similar move....

By HANNAH BEVIS, GARRETT COTE and THOMAS JOHNSTON

Thomas JohnstonOne of the great things about college sports is the rivalries between local schools. It's what makes weekends like this so exciting, getting to see Michigan play Ohio State, Auburn take on Alabama, etc. It's one of the best weekends in...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL and MADDIE FABIAN

Affordable housing projects in Northampton and Easthampton are receiving a combined $5 million from the state as part of efforts to decarbonize affordable housing and make it sustainable throughout the commonwealth.The money comes from the first round...

By GARRETT COTE, HANNAH BEVIS and THOMAS JOHNSTON

In this week’s edition of Through the Maroon, our writers tackle both the football and men’s basketball teams ahead of important games.The men’s basketball team looks to stay unbeaten with a rare Friday night home game against Harvard while the...

By GARRETT COTE, TOM JOHNSTON and HANNAH BEVIS

Garrett CoteFor the second time in as many seasons, Albany men’s basketball head coach Dwayne Killings visited the Mullins Center to match up against a Minutemen team he once suited up for in the early 2000s.Killings, an Amherst native, grew up going...

By GARRETT COTE

GRANBY — Northampton’s Reilly Fowles walked to the tee box on his 17th hole of the day sitting at two-over par. Fowles was in great shape to not only qualify for the state tournament next week, but finish Monday afternoon’s Western Mass. Division 1...

By GARRETT COTEand HANNAH BEVIS

HADLEY – The Smith Academy and Hopkins boys soccer rivalry was on full display Thursday afternoon, as the two teams battled to a 1-1 draw in their first of two meetings this season at Hadley Elementary School.Physicality was at the forefront of the...

By HANNAH BEVISand THOMAS JOHNSTON

The Sean MacDonald era with the Frontier girls volleyball team is coming to an end at the conclusion of this season.MacDonald — who has won 11 state titles with the Redhawks, the second most for any program in the Commonwealth — said he plans for this...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHAMPTON — In a town reporting $2.2 million in road damage last month, the “fun fact” tweeted out recently by the National Weather Service in Boston might come as no surprise: The highest July rainfall total in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico was...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALLand DOMENIC POLI

Donald Trump’s appearance in a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday marked another monumental occasion in his turbulent political career, an event that drew wide-ranging comments from residents and legal scholars in western Massachusetts.The former...

By JAMES PENTLAND and ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton woman was ordered held without the right to bail Wednesday after her arraignment on a charge of murder in the stabbing death of a 23-year-old man at the home they shared.Jean Marie Echevarria, 23, showed no emotion during...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI and JEFF LAJOIE

EASTHAMPTON — Williston Northampton point guard Paul Ippolito kept a steady hand on the Wildcats’ gear shift.He knew Williston’s opponent in the NESPAC Class A boys basketball quarterfinals, No. 6 seed Trinity-Pawling, wanted to red line....

By SCOTT MERZBACHand BELLA LEVAVI

AMHERST — John Olver of Amherst, who served as a U.S. congressman for 22 years and was on the local and national political stage for more than 40 years, died Thursday, leaving a legacy of progressive advocacy and achievements that continues to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL and SCOTT MERZBACH

Cities and towns in Hampshire County are advising residents to take shelter Friday and Saturday during an upcoming arctic cold front that will see wind chill factor temperatures drop to 30 below zero with gusts of up to 40 mph.The cold front, which...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL and MARY BYRNE

NORTHAMPTON — Community media organizations in Hampshire County are keeping an eye on a proposed bill in the Massachusetts State House that would expand state funding for such outlets by including revenue from streaming services.Traditionally,...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN and GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON — When it comes to investigating its own, the Northampton Police Department rarely disciplines an officer who is named in a civilian complaint. When a superior officer or fellow Northampton officer files an internal complaint, however,...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI and THOMAS JOHNSTON

Wondering why a high school sporting event was canceled on a hot day without any other weather variables? Check out the new MIAA Heat Modification Policy. The policy — which was adopted Jan. 16, 2019 and went into effect July 1, 2019 — is a way to...