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ELISE LINSCOTT

HOLYOKE — The crowd roared inside the MassMutual Center in Springfield on Saturday morning as Holyoke Community College conferred associate degrees and certificates to 742 graduates from the class of 2025 at the college’s 78th commencement ceremony.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

To many lay people, the world of tech seems like something almost mythical: a world of innate genius, absurd wealth and complex mathematical algorithms that make the idea of entering the field seem almost impenetrable to those without the talent, the education or the privilege. 

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...

Staff Report

 HOLYOKE — Holyoke Community College has been awarded an $832,000 state grant to help train workers for clean energy sector jobs.The two-year grant, announced earlier this month, is part of an overall $3.4 million allocation from the Healey-Driscoll...

By ELISE LINSCOTT

SPRINGFIELD — When Carineh Santana was hit by a car last summer, she doubted she’d graduate from Holyoke Community College as planned this spring. That wasn’t the only challenge she’d faced, either, identifying as a queer, Latinx, first-generation...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — George Timmons knows just how much a difference a college president can make in a student’s life.As a senior at Norfolk State University, a historically black university in Virginia, Timmons faced the possibility of not being able to...

By STEVE PFARRER

Editor’s note: The performance at Northampton’s A.P.E. Gallery tonight with Fumi Tomita has been canceled. However, Tomita and Allen Fowler will be present for the artist’s reception at the gallery from 5-8 p.m.​​​​​​A new arts celebrationNORTHAMPTON...

By MADDIE FABIAN

On any given weekday morning, upward of 40 people fill the Holyoke Community College gymnasium to partake in the sport that has become a favorite pastime for those looking to socialize and for people of all ages and abilities looking for a little...

EDITED BY MAX DUTZIK HENRICKS,PARKER PETERS, NICO RIBADENEYRA and MIRANDA DEBRUYN

Note: This is the first of three narrative reports in a special series produced by Professor Kathy Roberts Forde’s “Longform Narrative” class in the Journalism Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Until the COVID-19 crisis disrupted...