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By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — After a quarter century downtown, Ten Thousand Villages is preparing to close its Main Street store for good on March 31.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CHESTERFIELD — Vox, an Alaskan husky who raced with the Hilltown Sleddogs, died last Friday after a GoFundMe account raced to raise funds for surgery to remove his spleen cancer that had been uncovered just days before.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GRANBY — For the first time in 23 years, Granby has a new town administrator after the Select Board this week unanimously agreed to appoint Shelley Poreda to the position.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

AMHERST — As visitors from throughout the country toured ServiceNet’s successful Prospect Meadow Farm in Hatfield on Monday to learn about “care farming” — a therapeutic approach that combines agriculture and health care — Shawn Robinson shared the story of an employee who was thriving while working at the 18-acre property.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE – City Treasurer Rory Casey is making the case for voters ahead of a Jan. 28 special election that he should be fired.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — When he was growing up, Daniel Nye says the presence of World War II vets had been “pretty ubiquitous.” Now he says, “they seem to have disappeared.”

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100 years old, has often been labeled exceptional, or different among his presidential peers in that his legacy is tied not so much to his politics, but his heart.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — After returning from a recent trip to Israel, state Sen. John Velis found himself unable to sleep. So to burn off some energy he headed to what he expected would be an empty gym at 4 a.m.“What do I see? The good captain, benching,” recalled...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — The Sidney F. Smith Toy Fund brought in a total of $52,923 in 2024, its 92nd year, falling short of its $60,000 goal.Gazette Publisher Shawn Palmer thanks those who contributed to this year’s annual drive, which raises money toward...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

EASTHAMPTON — Elizabeth Mutti is moving her online non-alcoholic beverage brand into a brick-and-mortar environment downtown — a transformation she hopes will capture the frivolity of the drinking culture but do so with beverages that have been...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

BOSTON — Pro-immigrant nonprofits, organizers, and politicians from across the state are bracing for a second Trump presidency as they seek to protect the state’s undocumented population — and a letter recently addressed to Gov. Maura Healey may give...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — In the 1950s, Holyoke’s first Puerto Rican migrants met a city trending toward a has-been industrial powerhouse that didn’t offer the same economic opportunities their French, Irish and Polish neighbors experienced when they moved to the...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN – The astronomers of antiquity would keep watch through the night, tracking the patterns of objects in the celestial dome. Bob Labrie, a Goshen resident, is probably as close as you come to a modern successor of these ancient watchmen – one...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

EASTHAMPTON — Several mysteries surround American eels, a species that spends a portion of its life in Massachusetts. For example, no one has ever observed the species spawn, and only one has ever been tracked in the wild.Students at Easthampton’s...

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NORTHAMPTON — Maura Healey, reflecting midway through her first term as governor, noted the many investments she is making in the state, such as access to free college and free school lunches and breakfasts, the results of which aren’t fully known as...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

SOUTHAMPTON — Saturday’s Lighted Tractor Parade is expected to be “largest event in Florence of the year,” and the “largest gathering in the Florence since Florence Night Out was last featured in 2022,” according to Florence Civic and Business...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WASHINGTON — The roller coaster ride last week over a down-to-the-wire congressional spending bill ended on a high note for U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, who expressed victory that some $220 million in federal money will soon be in the hands of New England...

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HADLEY — After five Christmas eves without organ accompaniment, Michael Stancill will be “pulling out all the stops” as he plays “O Come, All Ye Faithful” for the First Congregational Church of Hadley this year on Christmas Eve.That phrase has...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Two downtown commercial spaces are vacant in the heart of downtown across from the Academy of Music after the closure in recent weeks of side-by-side businesses. Shelburne Falls Coffee Roasters and Mexcalito, previously located at...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CHESTERFIELD — Chesterfield’s property tax rate for fiscal year 2025 will increase by 60 cents from last year to $15.57 per $1,000 of assessed property value. This translates to the average single-family home assessed at $300,000 paying $4,671 in...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Even many in Donald Trump’s circle are unsure whether the president-elect intends to follow through on his often expansive, and some would say, hyperbolic rhetoric — the kind of exaggerated speech that heralded a “big, beautiful wall”...