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As we once again await yet another gun control bill to come roaring down the pike, one must ask is this really about the safety and well-being of the citizens, or just another bold step toward totalitarian rule?I come from a time and place (small town...

SOUTH HADLEY — The kid can ride. You see him coming all at once, pedaling hard and rat-a-tat fast, breath visible, expression confident. He is up on the handlebars, elbows at 90 degrees, head jutting forward, almost in what a mountain biker might call...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Owners of an average single-family home in Fire District 1 will see a $350 increase in their property tax bills in fiscal 2024, nearly $100 more than the average homeowner will face in Fire District 2.At a tax classification hearing on...

A recent article on printed books vs. libraries virtual lending did not mention one important aspect of this issue [“E-book access bill draws opposition from publishers,” Gazette, Nov. 2]. Print books are presently printed on paper made from trees....

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Tower Theaters received a $30,000 grant as part of an effort to save independent movie theaters — an industry hit hard financially by the pandemic and the two strikes in Hollywood.“Many industries were hit over the time, but we had a...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Amherst and South Hadley are among six Massachusetts communities receiving technical assistance from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to improve stormwater management and advance environmental justice in the face of Earth’s...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Five years since elementary students ran through its halls, the West Street Building might become the permanent home to town government offices if town voters approve $5.6 million for renovations at an upcoming special Town Meeting.“The town...

As a child in school, I experienced periodic fire drills. These aimed to instill coping skills to deploy in an emergency. We were taught it was very important not to panic.In considering what runaway climate change will look like, it may be hard not...

By HANNAH BEVIS

Now approaching their sixth Thanksgiving Day meeting, it seems fair to officially call the Holyoke-South Hadley Thanksgiving game a rivalry. The Purple Knights and Tigers will face off at the Roberts Complex in Holyoke on Thursday at 10 a.m. for...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY/AMHERST — One of the region’s largest independent and assisted living communities is in the middle of a significant renovation at its Amherst and South Hadley locations that it says will provide more apartments, add community spaces and...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Voters approved funding for a second assistant principal at South Hadley High School during the Special Town Meeting on Wednesday night — a position the school district lobbied for in recent weeks in the wake of several altercations at...

We are so blessed to have such a special resource as the Norwottuck Rail Trail in our valley community. There are not many communities that have such a unique resource. Valley citizens can go from Amherst to Northampton without touching an auto...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A week after six South Hadley High School staff members were physically assaulted by students in three separate incidents, the School Committee and Select Board agreed this week to ask residents to approve funding for a second assistant...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

SOUTH HADLEY — The final result Wednesday night – a 3-0 loss to No. 33 Mashpee in the MIAA Division 4 state tournament – seemed almost secondary to first-year South Hadley head coach Sabrina Bardwell. Of course, the 32nd-seeded Tigers wanted to win...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

SOUTH HADLEY – On paper, Monday night’s game between Belchertown and South Hadley was a Western Mass. Class B semifinal. But to every fan, coach and player in attendance, it felt like a western Mass. championship game. The two teams have gone head to...

By Emilee Klein

NORTHAMPTON — In the dim pink light of the Majestic Saloon on Main Street, people pack around tables watching “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” interrupting the movie playing on a screen above the bar every few minutes with an innuendo said in unison or...

By EMILEE KLEIN

During her record-setting swim of the Connecticut River, Kari Kastango found herself joined by the wildlife who inhabit the water: a duckling splashing along the riverbank during its first swim, a long sturgeon slinking past her, three fawns dancing...

Just off a late night shift she walks through the deserted parking garage, sensing him [drug addled and just out of jail] lurking in the shadows she reaches for the gun in her purse, the sound of a chambered round sends him scurrying off to hunt safer...

By Emilee Klein

SOUTH HADLEY — The School Committee will vote on Thursday to support a proposal to replace Mosier Elementary School and reconfigure prekindergarten through eighth grade among the school buildings.The district’s proposal to the Massachusetts School...

ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

SOUTH HADLEY — Mount Holyoke College welcomed new President Danielle Ren Holley onto its campus on Thursday, but the way the students cheered and lined along the entranceway upon her arrival, it may as well have been Beyoncé.Holley was officially...