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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — In a region where most businesses are small, with 20 or fewer employees, having an organization to advocate on their behalf, market them and assist them through unforeseen challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic is critical, says Amherst Area...

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Since Arcpoint Brewery partners Chris Peterson, CJ Eldridge and Dave Pare began their mission to open a brewery and taproom several years ago, all three men were determined to put it in Belchertown.Following their slogan “brew with...

By Emilee Klein

BELCHERTOWN — Donna Buxton hears every day that many Belchertown residents have no idea that a 108-unit residential development may be built on the old state school property off State Street.Prior to the creation of the Economic Development...

By JAMES PENTLAND

BELCHERTOWN — State utility regulators have given a green light to municipal aggregation in Belchertown, allowing residents and businesses to act as a bulk buyer of electricity supply.Aggregation typically helps to keep electricity rates down and can...

By JAMES PENTLAND

SPRINGFIELD — A Belchertown man who stole more than $114,000 in disability benefits over 16 years was sentenced last week in federal court to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release.Kenneth Pontz, 59, was previously convicted in...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Ever sat in a vehicle during a trip from New Jersey to western Massachusetts? How about while in labor?Well, Belchertown resident Christy O’Donnell has, and the result was Brooke Lynn Huyler, the first baby born at Baystate Franklin...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

BELCHERTOWN/SOUTH HADLEY — A new Jabish Brook Middle School in Belchertown and a replacement building for Mosier Elementary School in South Hadley are continuing to make progress, with the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s board of directors...

We gather here today, Minuteman football devotees, in these venerable pages to eulogize yet another season of gridiron grief. Autumnal pigskin pipe dreams spawned by hallucinatory optimism conjuring touchdowns, two-pointers and tackles are, once...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — For almost 25 years, a property at 163 Montague Road has served as a sanctuary for dogs, cats and other small animals, ensuring that otherwise unwanted and homeless pets would get love and attention, and eventually be adopted.Now, more than...

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...

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...

‘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 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,...

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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...

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....

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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...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

NATICK – Western Massachusetts baseball showed it can hang with anyone in the state.Though Belchertown Post 239 dropped out of the double-elimination American Legion Senior Division state tournament after an 8-3 loss against Beverly Post 331 on...