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Another mass killing with an assault weapon. We grow numb, but we must address these attacks as the Greatest Generation did it during World War II. Fortunately, there are stirrings of action throughout our country to do just that. The following...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

WESTHAMPTON – Trailing 3-0 in the bottom of the seventh inning Thursday, the Hampshire Regional softball team wasn’t panicking against opponent Wachusett. Teaghan Charles calmly led off the inning, knocking a grounder into left field to get on first...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

I have been rather surprised about the paucity of columns and letters on the opinion page from Gazette readers concerning the latest banking crisis, which has affected the neighborhood and the world at large, for that matter. My assumption is that...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HADLEY – Hampshire Regional capitalized on two big spots in the first inning to power past the Hopkins Academy baseball team 8-0 Monday.With two batters on and two outs, Jack Boyle laced a double to center field that brought around both runners.“You...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Max Weir juggles a lot for the UMass baseball program.The Southampton native primarily works with the catchers as a volunteer assistant coach, but he also holds players’ elbow protectors while coaching first base and coordinates the teams’...

I am writing to express my gratitude to the Northampton firefighter/medical personnel who showed up at my husband’s car accident off Loudville Road on March 6. They took him into the ambulance and looked him over well. Miraculously, he emerged...

By JACOB NELSON

The Parsons family of Mayval Farm have stewarded their land in Westhampton for a long time.“It was actually a grant from the king to Noah Parsons III,” says Margie Parsons. That would be King George III of England, back in 1778.Currently Mayval Farm...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

The Gazette opinion page is my second favorite section of the newspaper. I prefer to begin my day’s journey by reading the comics. All too often they provide me with the only good laughs of the day. I procrastinate reading the news as it generally...

By Jonathan Kahane

Grüezi mitenand. After a three-year hiatus, I find myself back in Switzerland again visiting family and friends. Before Covid, I would come here to enjoy camaraderie, alpine vistas, skiing, hiking, chocolate, watches, cheese, it’s touted “purist...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH HADLEY – Drew Alley scored 10 points in the first half and helped the South Hadley girls basketball team pull away from Hampshire Regional 47-29 at home on Tuesday.The Tigers (5-1) scored the game’s first seven points and opened with a 17-2 run....

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

WESTHAMPTON – Connor White scored 14 points, and the Belchertown boys basketball defense clamped down to defeat Hampshire Regional 60-42 on Monday in Westhampton.The Orioles (5-2) used a 9-1 run to separate in the first quarter after an early 5-5...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

NORTHAMPTON – Kyle Dale cracked a window into the lane with a jab step. His Hampshire Regional boys basketball team trailed Smith Vocational by two with less than a minute to in the Vikings gym Saturday.The Raiders had lost their first seven games of...

By BERA DUNAU

WESTHAMPTON — Town Democrats will hold a party caucus Thursday, giving them a voice in the selection of candidates for governor and other statewide offices. However, eight other Hampshire County communities will not be sending caucus delegates to the...

By SARAH ROBERTSON

NORTHAMPTON — The crowd at Smith College Friday night had a 10-year-old to thank for a visit from civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who in 1960 became the first black student to attend an all-white public school in the South.Responding to a request...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HUDSON — The tears formed behind Brian McGan’s mirrored sunglasses.Hampshire Regional’s softball coach for the past decade watched his final game through the darkened frames, but took them off after the Raiders’ 5-0 loss to Grafton in the Division 2...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

WESTHAMPTON — Hampshire Regional’s last postseason softball loss occurred June 11, 2014.Grafton beat the Raiders 2-0 at Worcester State in the Division 2 state semifinals.Since then, Hampshire has won three more Western Massachusetts championships and...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

WESTHAMPTON — The large, black walnut tree that stands tall in the heart of Westhampton, towering over the Blacksmith Shop Museum, provides an iconic image: the tree’s branches, broadly reaching against a blue sky.That same image will now officially...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

MONTAGUE — Nerves affect even two-time defending state champions before their first playoff game.The Hampshire Regional softball team swung at pitches outside the strike zone and popped out three times in the first two innings against Easthampton in...

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Sophie Gatzounas led the South Hadley girls track & field team to a strong showing at the Western Massachusetts Heptathlon, Wednesday at Hampshire Regional in Westhampton.Gatzounas won the event with 3,522 points. Lindsay Marjanski was third with...

By GINNY CURTIS

There is a storm brewing in Westhampton. Some folks are looking to the skies; most taxpayers are glaring up at Town Hall. Will the Select Board prove Jonathan Swift wrong when he said, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”?Having attended...