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Gary Michael Tartakov really nailed it in his Nov. 29 guest column, “Dems must truly become the party of the working class.” Progressive Democratic politicians must revolutionize their party or start a new one to counter the authoritarian drift of our...

I was privileged to spend some time in Amman, Jordan in the spring of 1991. I had no language and was impaired, but tried to learn as best I could. I encountered a number of Palestinians. At one point I was convinced every cab driver was a Palestinian...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — An average homeowner will have a higher-than-usual $272 increase in property taxes next year, due in part to the costs for renovating the locker rooms at Hopkins Academy.The Select Board approved a series of recommendations Wednesday from the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A nearly $20 million redevelopment of a former Route 9 hotel into a mix of 51 one-bedroom and studio apartments for low- and moderate-income residents will get an infusion of $100,000 from the Hadley Affordable Housing Trust Fund.At the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — A general town bylaw creating a licensing process for large-scale battery storage in Shutesbury has been struck down by the state attorney general’s office, for both unreasonably regulating renewable energy and improperly regulating...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — High school students aren’t the only ones learning from South Hadley High School’s criminal justice vocational program.During the spring semester, members of the class of 23 students will be at the Police Academy in Holyoke to act out...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Select Board recently made another key decision in the town’s effort to move to a new trash system next July 1, approving 65-gallon trash carts with orange tops and 95-gallon recycling carts with black tops.Earlier this year, the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — New life may soon be coming to the vacant farmstand at the intersection of Routes 5 and 10 and North Hillside Road.Maple Valley Creamery, the Hadley-based dairy farm that also operates Maple Valley’s Scoop at the Silos, is eyeing the...

Donald Trump says he is going to put punishingly high tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China for non-economic reasons. Instead of actually tackling immigration and fentanyl head on, he imagines tariffs as a some kind of “magic bullet” that will force...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — An overhaul of the two locker rooms at Hopkins Academy is expected to be scaled back as the result of rising costs associated with the project.With voters in December 2023 approving a $1.07 million debt exclusion to cover the refurbishing of...

So, let’s get this straight — a violent international fugitive, wanted for committing assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in Massachusetts, was finally arrested. Northampton and Amherst officials, including two new police chiefs, want to...

By ALEXA LEWIS

SOUTH HADLEY — Next school year, Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School (PVPA) hopes to offer free bus transportation to students within a newly revised region, and alter bus routes so that no student lives more than two miles away from...

By RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY – It’s a three-peat.The South Hadley football team hung on to beat Holyoke, 16-14, in Thursday’s clash on Thanksgiving Day, to earn bragging rights and the ‘Battle of the Bridge’ trophy for a third straight season.The Tigers led 16-0 at...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY —  South Hadley is the last community in Hampshire County to receive the green community designation from Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.On Nov. 22, the Healey-Driscoll Administration announced three new communities and...

By RYAN AMES

The seventh installment of Thanksgiving-Day football between South Hadley and Holyoke has arrived.The Tigers and Purple Knights will square off in their own ‘Battle of the Bridge’ on Turkey Day at South Hadley’s Turf Field at 10 a.m.South Hadley has...

The need for affordable housing is urgent. As I drive through South Hadley, I see signs supporting equality and social justice, but none advocating affordable housing — an essential social justice issue.Our country is failing to address housing needs...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Two annual events timed to the Christmas season will take place over the weekend.On Saturday at 5:30 p.m is the Celebration of Lights, hosted by the Edward Hopkins Educational Foundation at the Hopkins Academy Gazebo at 131 Russell St.Held...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Mount Holyoke College will endow two new faculty chairs named after accomplished alums Debra Martin Chase, a film and musical producer, and Suzan-Lori Parks, a playwright, thanks to an anonymous $6 million gift — the largest gift from a...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A building with 45 apartments for people 55-and-over, to be constructed at the Hadley Village Barn Shops site on Route 9 near the Coolidge Bridge, will move forward if revisions to the senior housing overlay district are approved by voters at...

By RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY – A 20-point second quarter powered the South Hadley football team to a 27-9 win past Pathfinder in a non-playoff game Friday night.Senior Julius Hebenth scored two of the Tigers’ three second-quarter touchdowns, including a lengthy run...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Town Meeting members voted down all four zoning bylaw amendments at a special Town Meeting on Wednesday, with a majority of residents expressing dissatisfaction about the lack of mandated affordable housing and natural resource...