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By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — A course record that stood for 41 years at Amherst Golf Club was bested last week, and it perhaps couldn’t have been done by a more fitting member with familial ties to the course.Belchertown’s Michelle Morgan, the course’s 2024 women’s club...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

For the first time in 21 years, Sean MacDonald’s hulking figure won’t be patrolling the sidelines at Frontier girls volleyball matches. MacDonald retired from the girls program last year after 429 wins, 18 western Mass. titles and 11 state...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — An over 200-year-old barn at one of the town’s oldest former farms will be entering a new phase of its history, as its owners uplift and outfit the structure into a “functional” space.Built between 1812 and 1818 and originally designed...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Jones Library Director Sharon Sharry’s dedication to the Jones Library, its staff and patrons, and her continued planning for a renovated and expanded main branch, is being recognized with an exemplary annual performance review from the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — As a graduate of the School of Public Health & Health Sciences Kinesiology department at the University of Massachusetts, doctoral student Petra Ypsilantis is aware of the separation and lack of cohesiveness among the school’s six...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — When Mount Holyoke College researchers Serin Houston and Anatasica Tucker talk about their recently completed database of migrant sanctuary policies enacted across the country, they can’t help but laugh at the sheer amount of work they...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier girls volleyball team wanted to challenge itself early in the season to prepare for tough league matches like the one it played on Monday against Amherst. Facing Dennis-Yarmouth, Nauset, Westfield and Melrose to open the...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — For the second straight week to begin the 2024 college football season, the UMass football team proved to be more than talented enough to win a game yet came up shy of doing so.Two Saturdays ago the Minutemen had more first downs, rushing...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

The UMass men’s basketball team will play Providence in 2024, after all.The Minutemen and the Friars on Monday announced a charity exhibition game between the two New England foes on Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. at the Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence,...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

One step forward, two steps back. Two steps forward, one step back.That’s what it’s been like watching the UMass football team this fall, as the Minutemen’s square-dancing routine has led them to 19 penalties through two games, 14th-most in the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Maintaining and improving existing public housing properties is an ongoing challenge for local housing authorities with limited resources, an issue that housing advocates and professionals are hopeful the state’s $5.16 billion housing...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A poured-in-place rubber surface to be installed for the improved playgrounds and new swing set at Hadley Elementary School, making for a safer space for children, may depend on successfully getting a grant from the town’s Community...

By ALEXA LEWIS

For eight months, Northampton did not have a permanent police chief. In August, the city hired interim chief and longtime department member John Cartledge to lead the department, who was chosen from a pool of just four candidates. Similarly, Amherst...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

At last fall’s Western Mass. Division I championships, Amherst girls cross country barely edged Northampton by three points to win the sectional title. Three weeks later at the MIAA Division 2 championships, the Northampton girls blazed past Amherst...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A steep drop in the number of Black students in the Class of 2028 at Amherst College compared to the preceding year’s incoming class, and less racial diversity in the first-year class, is likely a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Don Brown has never been a moral victory kind of guy.But the veteran coach was at least a bit encouraged by an improved performance from a UMass football team that badly needed it on Saturday.The Minutemen did some of the things needed to win a...

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — In its prominent Easthampton location near Pulaski Park at the rotary downtown, the property at 1 Northampton St. is set to be sold at a public auction this week.The property is zoned for mixed use as a commercial-residential...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A manager of licensing and permitting for Eversource energy projects, who also brings experience chairing the Conservation Commission in Sandwich, will serve on the Planning Board through next May’s town election.In a unanimous joint vote by...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

The UMass football team travels for its first road game of the season on Saturday, a 3:30 p.m. contest against Toledo in the Glass Bowl. The Rockets beat UMass 41-24 last season in Amherst on their way to an appearance in the MAC Championship Game,...

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — During Brad Miller’s 16 seasons as head coach of the Longmeadow boys soccer team, he won three Western Mass. championships and led the Lancers to an undefeated season and Division I state title in 2019.So considering Hampshire Regional...