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By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — For the first time in months, Samantha Daviau felt like she could finally take a breath.Her father, Richard Daviau, owner of Damn Yankees BBQ on Elm Street in South Deerfield, was released from Baystate Medical Center in Springfield...

By STEVE PFARRER

Mail art, as Dean Brown explains, became a big deal in the late 1960s and the 1970s, a populist movement based on sending small-scale artworks — drawings, paintings, graphic designs and more — through the Postal Service.Over the past couple of...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — The theft of a Northampton activist’s lawn sign has stirred up a firestorm online centering on ethics, free speech and race.Billy Park noticed June 6 that a lawn sign he had displayed in his front yard on Crescent Street — depicting a...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

EASTHAMPTON — Andrew David Morini, a former Northampton Fire Rescue firefighter who retired last year after over 22 years on the force, died June 7 in Southampton. He was 49.“No matter who you were, he treated everyone the same — he treated everyone...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Medical Center intends to close its maternity services unit, leaving Holyoke residents with no place to give birth and receive obstetric care within the city.The decision comes after HMC temporarily closed its Birthing Center in...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

WILLIAMSBURG — Attorney General Maura Healey filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a Pennsylvania developer alleging “irreparable harm” caused by polluting of the West Branch Mill River and damage to more than two acres of protected wetlands.The lawsuit...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Costs associated with Amherst College’s decision to move instruction online, and sending students home for the remainder of the semester in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, could exceed $10 million, according to a memo sent to students and...

By MARTY DOBROW

Editor’s note: With the NCAA Tournament canceled, the Gazette looks back to when UMass made its run to the 1996 Final Four. Here is the game story from UMass’ loss to Kentucky on March 30, 1996. This story appeared in the Gazette on April 1, 1996....

By BERA DUNAU

EASTHAMPTON — For more than four decades, a star shining over the city from Mount Tom has been a holiday tradition. Now, as residents deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic, the star is again lighting up the night in a gesture meant to spark and...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

NORTHAMPTON — A city man was sentenced to seven to eight years in state prison Friday after he admitted covering up the killing of Daniel Cruz by helping to burn his body after he was killed at Meadowbrook Apartments in 2018.Pedro Soto-Rodriguez, 22,...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The landscape for postseason high school tournaments just underwent its biggest change in 40 years.Member schools of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) voted at a special assembly to change the postseason format from...

By JACQUELYN VOGHEL

Former owners of Chez Albert in Amherst have made a return to the Pioneer Valley restaurant scene with the opening of their new restaurant, The Waxwing Cafe in Hatfield. The restaurant, located at 34 West St., is co-owned by Hatfield couple Paul...

By JACQUELYN VOGHEL

AMHERST — In what researchers are describing as an unintentional discovery, a team at the University of Massachusetts has developed new technology capable of generating electricity from moisture in the air.The device, called an Air-gen, is “a totally...

By BERA DUNAU

EASTHAMPTON — As the number of cars for sale continues to dwindle at its soon-to-close dealership off busy Northampton Street, Cernak Buick’s longtime owner wistfully remembers a time years ago when there were six new car dealers in the city.Now, more...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

NORTHAMPTON — For John F. Heaps Jr., president and CEO of Florence Bank, giving back to the community and providing good customer service isn’t just an expectation.“It’s our responsibility,” he said.Since he started in his position in 1995, Heaps, 71,...

By GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON — When Diva’s Nightclub closed in 2016 after a 16-year run, the city was left without a gay venue.But that’s no longer the case. In September, the Majestic Saloon, which opened as a craft beer and wine bar last year, became a “fully popped...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

SPRINGFIELD — The lawyer for a city man accused of stabbing another man to death in Holyoke last July is saying his client acted in self-defense after he pleaded not guilty in Hampden Superior Court to the murder on Thursday.Samuel Rosario-Calderon,...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

HOLYOKE — After a months-long investigation into a large-scale heroin distribution operation, police and federal authorities raided two addresses and arrested a city teenager on drug and firearm-related charges Wednesday. Luis Garcia-Figueroa, 19, was...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

HOLYOKE — After a sixth reported shooting in Holyoke in less than a week, police arrested a city woman on unlawful gun charges and another man who was with her on Tuesday night.Leshmarie Marin-Viera, 20, of Holyoke was arrested on charges of...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

NORTHAMPTON — A Florence woman was arrested for kidnapping after police say she forcefully held another woman against her will in her apartment Friday night.Darbie Lynn Young, 42, was charged with kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous...