Search Results

By Credit search: Staff Writer

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A project that would bring 800 beds for University of Massachusetts students to new apartment-style developments along Massachusetts Avenue remains on track to open by fall 2023.UMass officials this week announced that Balfour Beatty Campus...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Students at Amherst Regional middle and high schools will begin their school days later in the mornings when the next school year begins in the fall, when most of them will return for in-person education for the first time since last March.A...

By BERA DUNAU

CUMMINGTON — At the start of the pandemic Gus Perkins, the second-generation owner of Cummington Supply, wasn’t sure how it would affect his business. Then, a whole lot of people started building.“Everyone was sent home and started doing projects,”...

By GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON — Rue Walther moved to the Bay State Village neighborhood in 2004, drawn to it in part because she could afford it. She bought an 840-square-foot home for $185,000.She knew her next-door neighbor had a large lot, but when it was sold, she...

By JACQUELYN VOGHEL

SUNDERLAND — Lanie Delphin understands what it’s like to seek out a dating service — in her early 50s, she met her husband, Bud, through one of these services — and what it means to use such a resource successfully.She and Bud have been together for...

By BERA DUNAU

CUMMINGTON — When Steve Magargal was 12-years-old, he caddied for George Shultz for the first time at the Worthington Golf Club, now The Links At Worthington. The pair would become good friends and years later Magargal, the owner and operator of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — When Legacy Craft Smokehouse opened earlier this month at 127 Elm St., it brought owner Zach Langlois back to the same building where his family ran the Smithsonian Grill and Bar for more than a decade.Frequently passing by what had become...

By BERA DUNAU

WORTHINGTON — When he was growing up, Jared Sena used to roller skate in one of the rooms of his family’s ski lodge, a barn that over three generations has held auctions, weddings and even potatoes. Now, the Worthington native is all grown up and...

By BERA DUNAU

CHESTERFIELD – David Kielson, whose work as an accountant and volunteer had a large impact on western Massachusetts, died Dec. 31 of COVID-19. He was 85 years old.“He always felt like he wanted to contribute to the local community,” said Leslie...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A 50-year-old sorority house on Olympia Drive recently sold for $1.5 million to an Amherst development team whose projects have included a college-student apartment building on an adjacent parcel and mixed-use projects downtown.47 Olympia...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Bed Bath & Beyond at the Holyoke Mall Crossing will be shutting down.The closure, first reported by The Republican, is announced on the store’s website. The store is one of approximately 200 that Bed Bath & Beyond announced at the end of...

By BERA DUNAU

HOLYOKE – “What do we want? Peace!” “Stop The! Violence!”These were the call-and-response chants in English and Spanish that rang out Sunday at a march in the streets of Holyoke, as dozens of people braved the cold and wet snow to call for peace and...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Police on Friday arrested a city man who has been charged with killing Robert James, a 52-year-old Agawam resident, in October.Police arrested Felix Torres-Rodriguez, 28, after a detective assigned to a road construction detail reportedly...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — After more than a decade of the topic being in the public eye, the School Committee voted Thursday night to push back the time the school day starts for high school students.“Every School Committee who’s faced this issue has agreed...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Across the city, intricate brickwork and beautiful architecture are found around every corner. But the Paper City also has its fair share of vacant, crumbling, and tax-delinquent buildings that cause city leaders plenty of headaches.When the...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Bomb manufacturers and defense contractors. Fortune 500 beverage and chemical corporations. Communications and technology behemoths.These are some of the industry giants with which the University of Massachusetts Amherst has struck sponsored...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Preliminary plans for the new building to house the Newman Catholic Center on the University of Massachusetts campus will be presented to the Planning Board Wednesday.Vinsu Shah, a representative of CBT Architects of Boston, will discuss...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

NORTHAMPTON — Before this year, Benjamin Maddison said he had never been pulled over by the Northampton Police Department. But during the first two months of 2020, he said, he was pulled over three times.In addition to filing complaints against...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

NORTHAMPTON — A Granby man answered in court last week to numerous allegations of child sexual abuse, including the aggravated statutory rape of a child.Steven C. Trznadel, 35, pleaded not guilty on Nov. 3 in Hampshire Superior Court to 11 sex crimes,...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Charlton-based Tree House Brewing announced Friday that it plans to open a new location next year at the site of the former Channing Bete Co. on Routes 5 and 10.“Tree House will open an expansive, beautifully located facility in...