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By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — With the School Committee’s approval, Frontier Regional School will undertake more than $1.2 million in capital projects over the next two years.The School Committee unanimously approved the appropriation of $850,000 to rehabilitate...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Three years after they began looking for a site that could accommodate their rapidly growing polyurethane manufacturing business in Deerfield and Whately, officials at Nupro LLC hit pay dirt only a few miles up the road.Now the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After 15 years at its location on Routes 5 and 10, Hillside Pizza is consolidating its original Deerfield operation into its Yankee Candle location.Sunday, Aug. 22, is the original location’s final day and the Yankee Candle store’s...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Hamshaw Lumber Inc. has acquired Leader Home Centers’ five retail locations and will be transitioning those stores over the next month.The Keene, N.H.-based lumber company, which already has a location in Orange, has purchased Leader Home Centers,...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Charlton-based Tree House Brewing has been given the go-ahead it needs to begin its first phase of opening at the former Channing Bete Co. building on Routes 5 and 10.The three special permits that the Deerfield Zoning Board of...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Charlton-based Tree House Brewing announced Friday that it plans to open a new location next year at the site of the former Channing Bete Co. on Routes 5 and 10.“Tree House will open an expansive, beautifully located facility in...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — A brewery with roots in Connecticut has found its way to South Deerfield.Powder Hollow Brewery, which opened its flagship location in Enfield, Connecticut in 2014, opened its doors to customers last week at its new location at Yankee...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — For the first time in months, Samantha Daviau felt like she could finally take a breath.Her father, Richard Daviau, owner of Damn Yankees BBQ on Elm Street in South Deerfield, was released from Baystate Medical Center in Springfield...

By DOMENIC POLI

LEVERETT — Michael J. Kittredge II, whose homemade candle as a cash-strapped teenager evolved into an industry giant, has died. He was 67.Kittredge, founder of the Yankee Candle Co., died Wednesday evening at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston...

By DOMENIC POLI

WHATELY – Production of wax and wicks in town is expected to increase starting in the fall, when Chesapeake Bay Candle’s operations move from Maryland to the Whately plant that manufactures Yankee Candles.Chesapeake Bay Candle and Yankee Candle are...

By DOMENIC POLI

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Channing Bete Company expects to cease operations June 30, the South Deerfield publisher announced Tuesday.The first position eliminations will come June 24, and most employees will be released between June 24 and July 3,...

By ELLIOT WELD

AMHERST — Five runs in the first inning, including a three-run home run from Luke Leonard, helped Amherst beat Frontier 9-1 in the first game of the double-elimination Mickey Mantle baseball playoffs Tuesday.With the score 2-0 after Amherst had hit...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

WESTFIELD — College coaches sat in folding camp chairs behind the backstop at Bullens Field and aimed their radar guns.Ludlow Post 52’s Jayson Webb stared down West Springfield Post 207’s Zach Culver. Webb wore a blue jersey like the rest of his team,...

By ANDY CASTILLO

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Eve-Cowles Tree Farm will host a free public walk with a naturalist and forester to discuss forest management.The event will be put on with help from the Massachusetts Woodlands Institute Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon.“This walk and...

By MIKE MORAN

The South Hadley and Belchertown girls tennis teams are on a collision course again.The two schools met in the finals of the 2016 Western Massachusetts Division 3 Tournament. Belchertown, then the No. 1 seed, beat the third-seeded Tigers, 3-2.They...

By ELLIOT WELD

GREENFIELD — For a second straight year, the South Hadley baseball team was awarded the No. 1 seed in the Western Massachusetts Division 3 Tournament.Tigers coach Matt Foley said the end of the season was hard on his team, but he was satisfied with...

Staff reports

Kade Gewanter singled home Connor Waitkus to give the Frontier Regional baseball a 7-6 win over host Palmer in 11 innings on Tuesday.Seth Gewanter pitched four innings of relief for the victory. He gave up four hits, struck out one and didn’t allow a...

By ANDY CASTILLO

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Police are investigating an apparent break-in at Neighbors Convenience Store on Route 116 sometime overnight Monday into Tuesday.“An ATM machine was broken into — cash from there, a register, and a safe was taken,” Deerfield Police...

By ANDY CASTILLO

SOUTH DEERFIELD — About 30 Frontier Regional School students paused from their studies Monday afternoon to complete 22 pushups — promoting discussion on mental health and suicide among military veterans.“Twenty-two is the average (number) of veterans...