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By GARRETT COTE

The beat goes on for the Belchertown Post 239 Senior American Legion baseball team, as a trio of runs in the first inning were just enough to get it past previously undefeated East Springfield Post 420, 3-2, for consecutive win No. 7 on Wednesday night in a game that was moved to Springfield Central High School due to field conditions.

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPDEN — The grueling third day of competition at GreatHorse is over, and Thursday’s quarterfinals are now set.

By RYAN AMES

MALDEN — Several area high school baseball players captured the silver medal in the 2025 Bay State Games Baseball Showcase tournament at Rotondi Field at Howard Park on Wednesday. The West team fell to Central, 10-1, in the Gold Medal game, which wrapped up competition of the three-day event.

By GARRETT COTE

BERNARDSTON — The pressure of playing in her first-ever Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship didn’t seem to bother Granby’s Ryley Regan, as the eighth grader who plays on the Hopkins Academy golf team cruised to a 3-up start through five holes.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The opening of the Lichter & Levin Delicatessen is proof that, in Emily Lichter’s words, “sometimes the silliest ideas become your greatest.”

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — Building codes in Victorian America were antiquated, but the nationally circulated story of a fire in Holyoke is a large part of the reason why the doors of public buildings, even today, open outward, allowing people to flow out of a building and not get caught behind doors in case of an emergency.

By SAM FERLAND

HOLYOKE — Due to several permitting issues, the city met with the owners of Schermerhorn’s Seafood in Holyoke last week after renovations were temporarily halted due to a stop-work order.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

A Holyoke man who worked as a corrections officer in Connecticut has pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to his harassment of an FBI special agent in South Carolina on messaging apps over the course of several weeks around the beginning of the year.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Amherst is moving forward with a process for creating a third local historic district, in the East Amherst village center, where homes, buildings and other structures could receive enhanced protections.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — Despite concerns circulating about the future of Baystate Franklin Medical Center after the passage of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act that cuts roughly $1.1 trillion in health care spending, Baystate Health’s chief financial officer advises the Greenfield hospital is not at risk of closure.

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPDEN — Thirty-six holes weren’t enough to decide which 32 golfers were going to make Wednesday’s match play in the 117th Massachusetts Amateur Championship at GreatHorse. After Monday and Tuesday’s first two rounds, 24 players were safely inside the 6-over par cut line while 10 players were tied at that number.

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPDEN — The tournament itself may not have gone the way Belchertown’s Zach Lebeau had wanted, missing the cut at the 117th Massachusetts Amateur Championship at GreatHorse with a total score of 12-over par. But as he stood atop the hill on the 18th green alongside his dad, Keith, the two were all smiles.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Massachusetts State Police apprehended a South Hadley man on Monday night after he fled from police in a vehicle and crashed into another vehicle on the Joseph E. Muller Bridge.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

BERNARDSTON — After two rounds of the 92nd Massachusetts Girls Junior Amateur Championship at Crumpin-Fox Club, it’s clear the course has been a challenge for all competitors.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WORTHINGTON — To say that Officer John Scobie was appointed police chief last week may imply that he oversees a department. But that’s not exactly the case.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — Beaver Brook Golf Course is officially going wild.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Exactly two months after closing the 43 Amity St. location to the public to make way for an expansion and renovation project, the Jones Library reopens at a temporary site at 101 University Drive on Monday.

By DOMENIC POLI

NORTHAMPTON — The end of the fiscal year coincided with the conclusion of a 39-year career at the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, as Donna Dudkiewicz retired as the organization’s chief financial officer on June 30.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Running a business downtown can come with its fair share of risks and challenges, but a car crashing into the store is generally not among them.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — More than two years after a woman died of an allergic reaction, allegedly from eating a pizza at a downtown restaurant, her estate is now seeking a court order to test the pizza, according to a civil lawsuit filed in Hampden Superior Court.