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By SCOTT MERZBACH

CHICOPEE — A South Hadley man is dead following a shooting during an attempted robbery of a smoke shop and convenience store in Chicopee Thursday night, according to the Hampden district attorney’s office.Robert Papalardo, 53, died after being taken...

By LISA GOODRICH

Samaita (Sam) Newell is a first-generation immigrant from India. She met Jared Newell as a student in the five-college area. Following graduation and getting married, the young couple dreamed of buying a farm with a store.Without collateral, their...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Food and other necessities can be found at the Goshen General Store on Route 9. For low-income individuals in Goshen and surrounding communities, the Hilltown Food Pantry, at the nearby Town Office Building, distributes food every...

By ANDREW MOREHOUSE, CHRISTINA MAXWELL and LAURA SYLVESTER

Food banks are facing a food crisis. Two hundred food banks nationwide, including the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, form the Feeding America national network of food banks. A majority of food banks, which collectively serve almost every county...

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — Four towns were disincorporated and dismantled, and another eight had land stripped from them, to create the Quabbin Reservoir in the first half of the 20th century.People were forced to find new homes and the valley was flooded with water...

By ROBIN GOLDSTEIN

In Amritsar, India, on the banks of a shimmering pond called AmritSarovar (Pool of the Nectar of Immortality), sits the Sri Harmandir Sahib. It is the Adobe of God, known colloquially as the “Golden Temple,” and it is one of the most important sites...

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 SOFI SHLEPAKOV

HOLYOKE — Holyoke and Chicopee have landed a large state grant to help pay for programs — from career exploration to youth development and recreation — designed to address gang and youth violence in their communities.The Shannon Community Initiative...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

CHICOPEE — Dozens of school staff members, parents, students and others marched Wednesday in front of the Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School to protest officials’ decision not to renew the contracts of more than half the school’s...

By EMILY CUTTS

A Chicopee man alleged to have led police on a chase that ended in a fiery crash was arraigned from his hospital room Thursday.Darryl Whitaker, 54, pleaded not guilty at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield to charges of reckless operation of a...