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By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HAWLEY — After 25 years running Sidehill Farm, founders Paul Lacinski and Amy Klippenstein are moooving on.

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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The opening of the Lichter & Levin Delicatessen is proof that, in Emily Lichter’s words, “sometimes the silliest ideas become your greatest.”

By SAM FERLAND

EASTHAMPTON — Rhythm Section Music has remained permanently closed since 2020, but with site plan approval from the Planning Board on Tuesday night, the property at 24 Cottage St. is set to keep music in a different form — karaoke.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The former Polish deli on Thayer Street has been given new life.

AMHERST — Craig Martin, professor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been chosen as this year’s winner of the 2025 Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for his research into synthesizing vaccine quality RNA using a technique that improves its quality and yield while drastically lowering the cost. The Mahoney Prize comes with a $25,000 cash award.

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By SAM FERLAND

EASTHAMPTON — Greenfield Savings Bank held a groundbreaking event on Tuesday to mark the development of a new bank branch located on Route 10, envisioned as a southern headquarters in western Massachusetts.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Thornes Marketplace has found a new tenant for the space left by the departing Cornucopia, who themselves have secured a new, larger space in the city of Holyoke.

By LUKAS DUNFORD

HADLEY — The Gardener’s Supply store along Route 9, originally called Hadley Garden Supply, will continue to operate for the foreseeable future, despite the Burlington, Vermont-based company filing for bankruptcy last week.

By GRACE CHAI

Over 30 years ago, Lucimara Galo immigrated to the United States from Brazil in hopes of a better life. Now, she helps others improve the quality of theirs.

AMHERST — James E. Young, distinguished professor emeritus of English and Near Eastern studies and founding director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

AMHERST

By Staff Report

The most affordable homes in Massachusetts this year are selling in the four western-most counties, with the year-to-date median home sale price at $415,000 in Hampshire County and lower medians in Franklin ($348,500), Hampden ($320,000) and Berkshire ($325,000) counties.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The few hundred feet of undeveloped land between Industrial Drive West in Deerfield and Fairview Way in Whately, which separates the two communities’ industrial parks, was once jokingly referred to as the “DMZ,” or demilitarized zone, by Whately’s former police chief in 1995.

AMHERST

By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA

NEW YORK — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores drop now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. But there are things you can do to help your score rebound.

BOSTON — During the annual meeting of the Northeastern Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NEASDA), Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) Commissioner Ashley Randle, was elected as the president of the organization.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — Artist Michael Karmody knows a hard truth about concrete — that it is often associated with sidewalks and jails, not attractive things.

AMHERST

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Mall is in the middle of a so-called “center enhancement project” to revitalize and refresh the property with a number of improvements.