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By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — “Electronic cocaine.” “A youth behavioral health crisis on steroids.” “Nothing’s more aggravating to me as a parent.”

By RYAN AMES

Select athletes of the Amherst Regional track and field team are heading back to the Nike Outdoor Nationals in Eugene, Oregon as competition is set to kick off on Thursday morning.

By SHERYL HUNTER

GREENFIELD — There will be music, music and more music when the 39th annual Green River Festival returns to the Franklin County Fairgrounds this weekend.

By CAROLYN BROWN

In Silverthorne Theater Company’s latest production, Jordan Harrison’s “The Amateurs,” a deft cast nimbly weaves their way through a complicated but comedic script with COVID-era resonance.

By JOAN AXELROD-CONTRADA

I was scrolling through my Google feed (that algorithm really gets me in ways that are both spooky and oddly comforting) when, kaboom, a headline fired up my inner skeptic. “Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys (scientifically) makes people happier than any other song,” it said.

Valley Players’ production of Lee Blessing’s play “A Walk in the Woods” will run at First Congregational Church in Amherst at 7 p.m. June 20-22, June 27-28, and at 2:30 p.m. on June 29.

NORTHAMPTON — For the fourth straight year, Grow Food Northampton and Cedar Chest, the anchor store in Thornes Marketplace in downtown Northampton, are partnering to fight hunger in the city.

By JOHANNA NEUMANN

This week marks National Pollinator Week. This annual celebration in support of pollinator health reminds Americans how essential bees are to our environment and our lives, and what action we can take to protect these remarkable winged insects.

Regarding the June 16 guest column response to Gazette columnist JM Sorrell’s recent column on the conflict in Gaza:

A recent guest columnist asked your readers “What if this were your neighborhood?” (Gazette, June 13). I can provide an answer to that question because as long as I have lived in Haydenville, I have considered that it is my neighborhood. Am I to understand now that I was wrong — that South Main Street is exclusive to those who live on that one block on a road my family and I walk or drive on everyday?

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Just after Memorial Day, the first round of testing to determine the E. coli levels at Puffer’s Pond revealed the bacteria in the water exceeded acceptable state standards, requiring the temporary closing of the site for swimming.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Brenda Bialecki, 60, formerly of South Deerfield, was sentenced to two years probation and must pay $13,600 in restitution after she pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon to single counts of Medicaid false claims, larceny over $1,200 and Medicaid kickbacks.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

Three multi-generational traditions in Hampshire County are being maintained with the help of tens of thousands in funds from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR).

EASTHAMPTON — River Valley Co-op will hold its annual Strawberry Ice Cream Social & Austin Miller Co-op Hero Awards on Thursday, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Co-op’s Easthampton location.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Reparations Study Commission will ask the city to extend its operations for an additional year, amid contentious debate among members over whether additional public input from Black community members is needed before submitting recommendations to the City Council.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Despite both written and oral appeals from advocates for the town’s unarmed community responders, two positions in the department will go unfilled for the next year after the Town Council approved a $103.3 million fiscal year 2026 budget for town, school and library operations.

By EMILEE KLEIN

CHICOPEE — Inside Berchmans Hall at the College of Our Lady of the Elms on Tuesday, 90 Westover Job Corps Center graduates celebrated securing their driver’s licenses, high school diplomas and vocational certificates. But outside the ceremony in the rainy weather, three members of the western Massachusetts political delegation rebuked the Trump administration’s recent attempts to shut down the Job Corps programs that made these graduates’ achievements possible.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The bids are in for the 1888 Building rehabilitation project, with the lowest one coming in at roughly $5.93 million.