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50 Years Ago ■A Springfield firm has filed a request for a variance with the zoning board of appeals to permit it to construct a 219-unit condominium development around Fitzgerald Lake in Florence. The developer also contemplates building a community...

By GARRETT COTE

(NOTE: This is the final installment in a weekly series featuring some of the toughest golf holes across Hampshire County.)BELCHERTOWN — Throw out whatever it is you think you know about Mill Valley Golf Links.For most people, what they know or...

Smith Academy’s Caitlin Graves totaled an unbelievable eight goals and one assist on Friday to reach 100 career points in the Falcons’ 10-0 win at Taconic.Graves is the third player in Smith Academy soccer history to reach the milestone, joining Riley...

TURNERS FALLS – Following a 5-10-1 campaign in 2023, the Amherst field hockey team looks like a renewed group this fall. The Hurricanes opened the season with County League wins over Palmer, Hampshire and Holyoke to start 3-0, gaining confidence in...

Haly Doucette-Kaplan netted the game-winning goal with 3 minutes, 18 seconds remaining, and the Northampton field hockey team moved above the .500 mark on the season thanks to a 2-1 Valley League victory over Mohawk Trail on Wednesday in...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

Separated by five years, Cal and Chris Daskam never thought they’d get the chance to play together.The two brothers, alongside their older brother Clayton, all played football at Belchertown High School. They come from a long line of gridiron...

Michael Murray and Daniel Hulmes both fired rounds of 2-over 37, helping the Belchertown golf team edge Frontier, 154-158, in action played Tuesday at Cherry Hill Golf Course in Amherst.Jared Haynes shot 38 and Ryan Shea followed with a 42 for the...

Caitlin Graves probably ran out of goal celebrations midway through the second half of the Smith Academy girls soccer team’s 8-1 beat down of Mount Everett in Hatfield on Monday afternoon.The Falcons senior netted a whopping seven goals in the win,...

Amherst, Hadley to mark 23rd anniversary of 9/11AMHERST/HADLEY — The towns of Amherst and Hadley will hold Sept. 11 commemorations on Wednesday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.Amherst’s ceremony hosted by the Fire Department...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

At last fall’s Western Mass. Division I championships, Amherst girls cross country barely edged Northampton by three points to win the sectional title. Three weeks later at the MIAA Division 2 championships, the Northampton girls blazed past Amherst...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A steep drop in the number of Black students in the Class of 2028 at Amherst College compared to the preceding year’s incoming class, and less racial diversity in the first-year class, is likely a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against...

Amherst Volunteer Fair coming upAMHERST – The town invites students and community members to join its annual Amherst Volunteer Fair on Saturday, Sept. 21, to explore the many volunteer opportunities available in town.The event connects community...

By GARRETT COTE

EASTHAMPTON — The South Hadley boys soccer team wasted no time jumping on Easthampton during Friday afternoon’s game at Nonotuck Park, and the Tigers sustained their high level of play throughout.Following a down year in 2023 after winning the state...

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — During Brad Miller’s 16 seasons as head coach of the Longmeadow boys soccer team, he won three Western Mass. championships and led the Lancers to an undefeated season and Division I state title in 2019.So considering Hampshire Regional...

By ELISE LINSCOTT

A public art project by Puerto Rican artist Yanira Castro aims to undo the disconnection that happens as a result of colonization, and to think collectively about the future we, as a community, want to conjure.The project, titled Exorcism =...

The Northampton boys golf team edged Belchertown by one stroke, 175-176, in a Suburban East showdown between top Hampshire County squads on Thursday at Cold Spring Country Club in Belchertown.Belchertown’s Michael Murray put up the low score with a 40...

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — Playing field hockey for Dina Brunetti may seem like a lot of work, but the second year Belchertown head coach has a method to the self-proclaimed madness she puts her players through.It isn’t just about the sport itself. Brunetti wants...

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

Sometimes life teaches you things you never wanted to know.As I alluded to in a previous column, I broke my femur, or thigh bone, this past March 25th, when I went down on a patch of ice while bicycling. For those of you who do not know, the femur is...

Heidymar Diaz Lopez had seven aces, two blocks and eight kills for the Smith Vocational girls volleyball team in a dominant sweep over Duggan Academy on Wednesday.Set scores were 25-18, 25-11, 25-17. Katelyn Fedora (three aces, one block, one assist,...

By ROB OKUN

 Since the presidential campaign shake-up in July, the national conversation about manhood is abuzz with talk of a “new” masculinity, embodied by good, decent men like Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff. What’s actually new, though, is what’s now coming into...