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By HANNAH BEVIS 

EASTHAMPTON – With less than 20 seconds to go on Tuesday night and the Easthampton girls basketball team down by four points, the Eagles needed a basket to keep their undefeated season alive – and they needed one fast. Easthampton charged down the...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Making the jump from high school to college athletics can be an intimidating move for any student-athlete. You never really know how you’re going to stack up against older, stronger and more experienced competition, or how you’ll gel with a new coach...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

HOLYOKE – Every time Devin Carleton made another impossible save, Fitzpatrick Arena echoed from the cheers of his teammates, who banged their sticks against the boards to encourage him. Carleton wasn’t the only reason the Tigers beat Ludlow on Monday...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

HOLYOKE – Call it whatever you want – bad puck luck, an identity crisis or road woes – but whatever it is, the Amherst hockey team has been struggling to play its own game lately.The Hurricanes and Chicopee played a tight matchup on Monday afternoon...

By HANNAH BEVIS

BELCHERTOWN — A Friday the 13th showdown between Belchertown and Frontier girls basketball squads made both teams unlucky offensively in the first half. Frontier managed to get hot behind the three point line in the second, propelling them to a...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

NORTHAMPTON – In a week full of nailbiters on the basketball court, the Northampton girls basketball team added to the list and pulled off a comeback for the ages on Thursday night with a 69-67 victory against Holyoke. It’s been an up-and-down season...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

NORTHAMPTON – After playing from behind the whole contest, Northampton pulled off a comeback for the ages against Holyoke on Thursday night, walking away with a 69-67 victory. Ava Azzaro paced the Blue Devils with 30 points in the win, while Bianca...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Whatever model Amherst creates for offering reparations to Black and African heritage residents could set an example for other cities and towns, states and the federal government, according to U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern.Taking part in the...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Despite quite a bit of rain that delayed the beginning of the alpine ski season, four local teams are ready to get back on the mountain for a new year. The first meet of the season will be on Thursday at Berkshire East in Charlemont, moved from...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL 

NORTHAMPTON — On the 21st anniversary of the opening of detention camps at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, activists in Northampton marched down Main Street Wednesday afternoon to call on U.S. President Joe Biden to close down the camp and free the...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

HATFIELD – The energy in Sherry A. Webb Gymnasium was electric on Tuesday night, ping-ponging around the court faster than anyone could keep track of. After three quarters of physical, intense basketball, the Turners Falls boys basketball team looked...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

HATFIELD – After their first win of the season in their last game against Sci-Tech, the Smith Academy girls basketball team wanted to keep trending in the right direction against Renaissance on Monday night. Despite a strong effort, turnovers and...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A controversial proposal to build a roundabout on North King and Hatfield streets is once again in the works at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation after a redesign intended to appease property owners and archaeological sites...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

AMHERST – Special teams were the difference-maker in a wild early morning contest between the Easthampton and Belchertown hockey teams on Saturday. The high-flying Orioles were lighting the lamp plenty early on, scoring right after two different power...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

HADLEY – Hopkins Academy’s boys’ basketball team isn’t the biggest one around, nor are they the oldest. But the Golden Hawks had one goal at the beginning of the season – they wanted to be the fastest. “The first three practices, we were just running...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

EASTHAMPTON — Birds of a feather flock together, and that’s perhaps truest for the Easthampton girls basketball team. The Eagles are off to a fiery start to the season, racing out to an unbeaten 8-0 record thanks to Tuesday night’s win over Frontier....

By HANNAH BEVIS 

While not much changed for the UMass women’s basketball team from last season to this year, the same can’t be said for the rest of the teams in the Atlantic-10 Conference.The A-10 landscape looks much different today than it did a year ago. Between...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

For Lauren Marjanski, soccer has always been a family affair. Her older sisters, Lindsay and Paige, played the sport before her, and she grew up kicking the ball around with them. Her father, Rich, coaches the South Hadley girls soccer team, and when...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — An experienced educator with local ties has been tapped to lead Northampton High School after a monthslong search.Interim Superintendent Jannell Pearson-Campbell announced Friday that William Werhli will assume the role as principal of...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

The Valley Blue Sox are entering into a new era of baseball, headlined by a new owner and a new-look team and mascot.After working with the team for 13 years, Fred Ciaglo sold the Valley Blue Sox to Matt Drury prior to the 2022 NECBL season. The...