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By AMANDA DRANE

HOLYOKE — Milton Galarza and his wife, who is seven months pregnant with their son, almost didn’t make it out of their fourth-floor apartment alive when a fire ravaged the building on New Year’s morning.He said his friend Trevor Wadleigh of...

By JACK SUNTRUP

HOLYOKE — Authorities on Tuesday had no word as to the cause of a New Year’s Day fire that claimed three lives in the Flats neighborhood of Holyoke.Hampden County District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni’s office did announce Tuesday, however, that Trevor...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

EASTHAMPTON – Kindergartners and first-graders got a surprise visit from the Pepin/Center Elementary Schools’ mascot, Eli the eagle, who came to thank students for raising a total of $701.74 for the Easthampton Community Center. “Guess how much money...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

EASTHAMPTON — The Williston Northampton School has donated a new rescue boat to the city of Easthampton, a gift that was officially accepted at Wednesday’s City Council meeting.A 14-foot inflatable Defender with a 25-horsepower outboard motor will...

By JACK SUNTRUP

EASTHAMPTON — Japanese war planes swept into Pearl Harbor 75 years ago, killing more than 2,400 Americans. The day after, from a podium directed toward U.S. lawmakers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, would be a date “which will...

By AMANDA DRANE

EASTHAMPTON — Bill Hobbie said the unconditional love canines offer is worth emulating.That’s why each year for the past five years he’s given to the Sidney F. Smith Toy Fund “in loving memory” of his late dog, Ozzie.“He brought so much joy and...

By Amanda Drane

In many Chinese restaurants, workers are expected to work well beyond the standard 40-hour week. Can those employees then expect time-and-a-half overtime pay? No. But, then again, yes. Restaurants are among the businesses that have won an exemption...

By CHRIS LINDAHL

In coming out to dozens of co-workers at a buttoned-up health research office, Aubri Drake had to start from the beginning.“When you’re born, when you pop out, the doctor takes a quick look between your legs and says ‘It’s a boy,’ or ‘It’s a girl,’”...

By TAYLOR TELFORD

NORTHAMPTON — In a blue American Eagle T-shirt, slinky black basketball shorts and tennis shoes, Wayne J. Dlugozima, 54, might have been mistaken for a casual observer rather than a prisoner, were it not for the handcuffs encircling his wrists and...