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By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN — Officials are working to correct a software error that led to about half of the town’s taxpayers receiving inaccurate data on their motor vehicle tax bills this year.Members of the Select Board, addressing the issue with a handful of...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

A new hiking trail through Ashfield and Goshen is opening to the public this weekend.Hilltown Land Trust and Ashfield Trails will host an inaugural hike through the Hilltown Boulders Trail on Saturday at 1 p.m. Attendees will stroll along a 2-mile...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN — As a study examining the town’s roads takes shape, residents at a Select Board meeting this week said they’d like to see more of the town’s dirt and gravel roads in paved.More than a third, or 37%, of the town’s roughly 27 miles of roads...

This year I discovered a medication which could have been available to me decades ago. Politicians used drug hysteria to prohibit the research and development of drugs that help people with mental conditions such as PTSD and depression. If similar...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Pedestrian safety and utility infrastructure improvements totaling $4.4 million for an affordable housing development in Easthampton, $1.94 million to build a new roundabout in Amherst at the edge of the University of Massachusetts...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN — It wasn’t long ago that the memorial ellipse within the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) State Park — the oval-shaped area that honors people and historical events related to the American Revolution — was falling apart and in dire...

By Samuel Gelinas

GOSHEN — The town will begin its search for a new town administrator over the coming weeks, as Dawn Scaparotti has left for a new position as business administrator for the Hampshire Regional School District. In the meantime Trishna Amirault,...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN — The Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will acknowledge various commemorations and dedications at the DAR State Forest on Saturday, highlighting Goshen’s roots stretching back to the American Revolution.The day will...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN — As rehabilitation of the town’s historic Town Hall enters a key stage thanks to a new grant, an unrelated project nearby, “Re-imagine Goshen Center” — which supporters believe will transform Goshen from a “drive-through” community to a...

By JACOB NELSON

For people near Goshen, Oliver’s Farm Stand is bringing more local food within close reach. As they do, they’re bringing their neighbors closer together too.Farm stands come in many shapes and sizes. Since 2017, Oliver’s has grown into a nearly...

While reading “American Prometheus,” the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, I was amazed to realize that he began advocating against the proliferation of nuclear weapons almost 80 years ago. Yet despite his efforts and those of many other...

By PAIGE HANSON

Around 15 years ago, Frank Popkiewicz was in Aroostook County, Maine, when he found a stone, in a shape that he thought resembled a bear, face down in the Earth.Since finding that stone, Popkiewicz’s interest in stones and rocks has only increased...

Last year I became the director of Goshen Free Library. I’m a faithful subscriber to the Gazette so I knew there was a town called Goshen. There are plenty of Goshen stones used in the town I live in. In the last year I have learned that there is more...

By DOMENIC POLI

It seems people from all over are anxious for warmer weather to arrive as bookings at the three state camping locations in Hampshire and Franklin counties are filling up fast, mirroring a trend at state-run campsites throughout Massachusetts.The state...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTHAMPTON — The Southampton Select Board agreed last week to withhold paying its quarterly assessment to the Hampshire Regional School District in response to ongoing challenges in the school district’s business office that are putting the town’s...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

GOSHEN — About to begin its 96th year, Camp Howe is the longest running 4-H summer program in Massachusetts, one of five camps offering a place for youth and young adults to gain life skills as they bunk in rustic cabins, swim, canoe, climb, hike and...

In October, Goshen residents and landowners received a mailing of the Re-imagine Goshen Center project’s recently printed brochure. This mailing generated donations and inquiries about volunteering.On Nov. 12, an enthusiastic crowd gathered in the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Hampshire County faced several road closures, power outages and flooding after strong winds and heavy rainfall that began on Sunday night and continued through much of Monday.In Northampton, at least two streets, West Street and Meadow...

By Emily Thurlow

GOSHEN — It’s not uncommon to see Tiffany Marcinek preparing food in a kitchen.Whether it’s her own space or at a friend’s house, Marcinek has been long dubbed the go-to person for catering.But for the past three months, she’s been focusing on her...

By STEVE PFARRER

If you show it, they will come.That’s been something of a mantra over the years for a group of Hilltown potters who joined forces to open their studios over a weekend and invite customers and art lovers in, both to see the wares and get a view of how...