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By HANNAH BEVIS

Seven different Gazette schools will travel to Fort Devens this weekend to compete in the MIAA Cross Country State Championships. Three different divisions will race on Saturday, with the Division 3 race slated first, followed by Division 1 and ending...

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

While watching our favorite show, “The Bear,” I noticed that many commercials are for drugs. And what are the No. 1 and No. 2 ads? They’re by companies calling themselves “ForHims” and “ForHers.” They advertise websites that reach “real doctors,” for...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Three days after Pickles the pig — a ham on the lam for the last three months that garnered the attention of residents and the media — died from injuries after being struck by a vehicle, owner Catherine Ruell recalled her pet with fondness on...

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 HANNAH BEVIS 

Just two years ago, the Belchertown girls volleyball team was in the midst of having one of the program’s worst seasons in recent memory. The Orioles finished the 2021-22 season without a single win, struggling to even make it to the finish line. That...

Congratulations to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The UMass football/athletic program has earned national recognition.Tom Fornelli, a writer for cbssports.com, on Nov. 29, 2022, ranked the bottom 25 NCAA football programs. Calling UMass...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

BELCHERTOWN – Not every game over the course of a high school season can be the prettiest. Sometimes during the grind of a season, when you’re tired and sore, the best thing you can do is just get by. That’s what the Belchertown boys soccer team had...

‘Constitution Day’ event will feature McGovernSHUTESBURY — The 7th Hampden District Coalition of Democrats from Belchertown, Ludlow, New Salem, Pelham, Petersham, Shutesbury and Wendell will host an event Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Shutesbury...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

The cross-country season dawns in the Valley with storylines swirling about recent graduates and who can step up to fill their shoes.This happens every year — it’s inherent in high school sports. But on the girls cross-country scene, it’s especially...

By HANNAH BEVISand THOMAS JOHNSTON

The Sean MacDonald era with the Frontier girls volleyball team is coming to an end at the conclusion of this season.MacDonald — who has won 11 state titles with the Redhawks, the second most for any program in the Commonwealth — said he plans for this...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Last year’s Frontier field hockey squad was one of the best in Western Mass., downing rival Greenfield 2-1 in the Western Mass. Class C final and making it all the way to the quarterfinals of the MIAA Division 4 state tournament before Uxbridge...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Every so often, a high school team has all the pieces fall into place at the right time. They have enough veteran leadership on the team to keep them grounded, promising young athletes to step up and boost the rest of the squad, and solid coaching...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A $682,085 project for watershed planning for the Mill River in Williamsburg and $304,800 for resiliency improvements on Emerald Place in Easthampton are among the $28.5 million in Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Action Grants...

By SCOTT MERZBACH and JAMES PENTLAND

BELCHERTOWN — A teenager from Henniker, New Hampshire, has been identified as the victim in a Sunday night car crash that left a North Main Street home with significant damage.Miles Murray, 19, was driving a 2011 Nissan Altima south on Route 202,...

Staff Report

BELCHERTOWN — A 19-year-old man was killed Sunday night after being ejected from the vehicle he was driving, and being pursued by a Massachusetts State Police trooper, according to a State Police news release.The identity of the driver, who was...

Elucidate: a euphonious word meaning to make lucid or clear. So it is elucidating to learn that the Florida State Board of Education, for clarity’s sake, has recently determined conventional impressions of slavery are a crock (pun intended) and...

By Emily Thurlow

BELCHERTOWN — Janice McCarthy Rogers has never made her way across the pond to behold the beauty of the Emerald Isle.That, however, hasn’t stopped her from bringing a wee bit of her Irish heritage to western Massachusetts with McCarthy’s Pub every...

Belchertown’s Emelia Maldanis, Evelyn Maldanis and Delaney Ochs represented the Belchertown Twirlers at the National Baton Twirling Championships in South Bend, Indiana.Emelia Maldanis, 11, and Ochs, 10, placed fourth in the Advanced Duet Competition....

Staff Report

BELCHERTOWN — The driver of a car that hit a motorcyclist, killing him and badly injuring his passenger, in 2021 pleaded guilty Thursday before Eastern Hampshire District Court Judge Tina Cafaro to a single charge of negligent operation of a motor...

The coverage of Andrew Leland’s memoir gave me some hope [“A radically distinct way of being in the world,” Gazette, July 21]. I am lost helping someone close to me get help and advice on adapting to living with low vision.She lost most of her vision...