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The Westfield City Council passed a resolution opposing the Mass. Department of Public Utilities exempting a proposed lithium battery storage facility from the city’s Water Protection District zoning ordinance, and placing 219 stand-alone containers...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

WESTFIELD — A U.S. Department of Defense decision to assign at least 18 latest generation Air Force fighter jets to Barnes Air National Guard Base is an indication of how state legislation supporting service members and military families benefits...

Thank you to the residents of Westfield and Southampton who honored me with their vote to be the state representative of the 4th Hampden District. I’m grateful for their confidence in me.I also appreciate our many volunteers for their efforts. I’m...

I’ll be voting for Bridget Matthews-Kane for state representative in the 4th Hampden District. A native of Westfield, Bridget is now in her third term on Westfield’s City Council. Bridget has shown herself to be a helpful, communicative and...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WESTFIELD — Franklin and Hampshire county residents got a first-hand opportunity to see the presumptive Democratic nominee for president over the weekend as Vice President Kamala Harris landed in western Massachusetts on Saturday for a fundraising...

The Super Bowl was dominated by two teams playing great defense. As this is election season, a parallel could be drawn for the political games being played on the American people. Two commercials caught one team’s defensive plan and play-by-play...

MassWildlife’s Hunters Share the Harvest Program is a generous and practical effort to distribute venison to food pantries and other hunger relief agencies. Over 1,500 organic protein meals were donated to needy families in its pilot year of 2022....

Good news that the state has provided more funds for monitoring the water quality of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers. A relatively easy way to lower the damaging nitrogen inputs that flow from these rivers to Long Island Sound, would be to...

By EMILY THURLOW

WESTFIELD — While many students and staff from school districts throughout the region spent their spring vacation sleeping in, catching up with hobbies or simply treating themselves to some relaxation, a group of teachers and administrators from...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — A Westfield man accused of killing his 20-year-old girlfriend in their apartment in 2019 was arraigned Thursday on three new charges after allegedly attempting to arrange for the killing of a witness and the prosecutor in his case while...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A South Hadley teenager was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail in the death of a Westfield man delivering pizza in the spring of 2016.Ryan D. Brunelle, 19, pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to negligent motor vehicle homicide...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — A grand jury handed up a vehicular homicide charge for a South Hadley man police said caused a fatal, two-vehicle crash in May that claimed the life of Thomas Flanagan, a 29-year-old Westfield man and father of two who was delivering...