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By SCOTT MERZBACH

BELCHERTOWN — A Connecticut man who pleaded not guilty to a series of charges related to a New Year’s Eve shooting in Hadley is being held until a dangerousness hearing in Eastern Hampshire District Court on Tuesday, according to the Northwestern...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

WESTHAMPTON — One Belchertown warm-up 3-pointer swished the Hampshire Regional net. Then a second. A third. A fourth followed with a fifth, each from a different shooter. The Orioles groaned collectively when the sixth bounced off the front rim and...

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

BELCHERTOWN – Amherst’s defending state champion girls swim team won nine events against Belchertown on Monday at the Chestnut Hill Community School pool and defeated the Orioles, 105-65.Belchertown held serve at home in the boys meet, 104-65.Lucy...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Amherst’s blockbuster girls swimming season ended with its first state championship in 2022. The Hurricanes will shoot the sequel with a new director.A four-time conference swimmer of the year in the mid 90’s at New Hampshire, Denise Leckenby took...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Jack Holt spent a Cape Cod vacation with his toes stuffed into shooting boots rather than the sand.The Belchertown senior broke his scapula during the summer soccer season and returned just in time for a family beach trip. He and his younger brother...

By BERA DUNAU

BELCHERTOWN — A Belchertown man was arrested on a murder charge Monday in relation to the 2021 shooting death of Charleen Figueroa in Springfield. According to a release from the Springfield Police Department, Victor Oquendo, 25, was arrested in...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

BELCHERTOWN — A lieutenant with the Belchertown Police Department has been charged with illegal wiretapping after allegedly filming women naked inside his own home without their consent or knowledge.Lt. Michael Beaupre appeared in Eastern Hampshire...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

BELCHERTOWN — A federal grand jury has indicted the superintendent of Chicopee Public Schools on two charges of making false statements in connection with prosecutors’ allegations that she sent threatening text messages to a candidate for the city’s...

By BRIAN STEELE

“Every child is entitled to be loved, cared for, secure, and protected from verbal, sexual, emotional and physical abuse, exploitation and neglect.” So begins Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle’s proclamation recognizing April as National Child Abuse...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

BELCHERTOWN — Chicopee’s superintendent of schools has been arrested on a charge of lying to the FBI, which has accused her of sending threatening text messages to a candidate for the city’s police chief job.On Wednesday, federal prosecutors and the...

By LARRY PARNASS

SPRINGFIELD — The former district court judge who lost his job over what he terms a consensual sexual affair has settled a lawsuit against him, seeking “to close this ugly chapter in my life and to focus on the future.”Thomas H. Estes, who formerly...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

BELCHERTOWN — A Brooklyn, New York man arrested Wednesday for his role in growing close to 1,400 marijuana plants inside a Granby home will be held at Hampshire Jail and House of Correction on $30,000 cash bail.Haolin Yu, 30, pleaded not guilty to...

By BRIAN STEELE

BELCHERTOWN — State and local economic development officials announced Wednesday that Brisa Ventures LLC has purchased a 12-acre parcel at Carriage Grove, the site of the former Belchertown State School that closed in 1992, with plans to build 100 new...

By LISA SPEAR

There are no church bells. There is no steeple. Leticia Figueroa, 25, is wearing a white dress, but that’s the only thing that’s typical about her wedding day.She’s on the side of a busy the road, at the end of a dirt driveway, in Belchertown,...

By EMILY CUTTS

BELCHERTOWN — A South Hadley man accused of raping a woman last week will be held without the right to bail after an Eastern Hampshire District Court judge deemed him dangerous Thursday.Michael Durgin, 36, pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of...

By DANIELLE DUSEAU

BELCHERTOWN — When Longmeadow pulled up to Jabish Brook Middle School with nine players Monday, Belchertown North initially didn’t take it seriously.“You think ‘oh, this isn’t going to be hard,’ even though Longmeadow is a great team,” Belchertown...

By NYSSA KRUSE

BELCHERTOWN — Members of the public will be able to tour the town’s new animal control facility during an open house with light refreshments from 12-4 p.m. on Sunday. The facility, located at 165 George Hannum Road, has eight dog kennels, eight cat...

By JONATHAN TUCKER

The recent Second Amendment event in Belchertown has spurred some community discussion, if not a lot of real dialogue, and some introspection (“Second Amendment rally in Belchertown draws ‘toughest sheriff,’ gun rights activists,” June 19).Gun owners...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

BELCHERTOWN — Voters shot down a measure Monday that would have withdrawn Belchertown from the Hampshire Council of Governments.By a 134-69 vote at a special Town Meeting, voters decided to stay part of the quasi-governmental agency.Some officials,...