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By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Michael Hixon medaled at his previous two world-class international competitions.The Amherst native and Indiana University diver captured bronze at the 2015 FINA World Championships in the 1-meter individual springboard and silver at the 2016 Rio...

By STEVE PFARRER

A hundred years ago, there was one relatively efficient way of crossing the country: by rail. To do it by road required using a patchwork of mostly unimproved surfaces — dirt, gravel, and sometimes just sand — on motorized vehicles that were still in...

Anyone looking for evidence of the random cruelty of President Donald Trump’s campaign to deport immigrants need look no further than the case of Niberd Alezendi Abdalla.Abdalla, 57, joined his family in fleeing their native Iraq four decades ago and...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — Ellen McShane said she’s been instructed to pack her fiance’s bag in preparation for what could be his deportation to Iraq later this month.Niberd Alzendi Abdalla, 57, came to the U.S. at 15, and now after over 40 years here, the...

 By LAUREL DEMKOVICH

NORTHAMPTON — Massachusetts needs a governor for the entire state, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz said Tuesday, and Newton Mayor Setti Warren can be that person.“Don’t forget about western Massachusetts,” Narkewicz said. “One size doesn’t always...

By EMILY CUTTS

EASTHAMPTON — You think you know someone after living with them for almost 17 years. And then they go and lay an egg and suddenly, things have changed.Sandy Gallant, 79, had the shock of her life last weekend when Larry Bird Bird, a blue crowned...

By AMANDA DRANE

Retired Easthampton firefighter Bill Simmons lobbied Massachusetts legislators in the 1970s for policies to help colleagues exposed to carcinogens on the job. Some 25 years later, he got cancer.He battled the disease for four years and endured eight...

Fans of passenger rail service in Northampton were glad to hear last week that the city is on track for improved service. Within the year, a larger two-sided platform will be built at the city’s railroad station off Pleasant Street, and beginning in...

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...

Kudos to the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District for its leadership in eliminating the indefensible practice known as “lunch shaming.”Across the country, students with a school meal debt have been publicly shamed with alternate food — often a cold...

By LISA SPEAR

Story, an enormous St. Bernard, lies down on Dennis Ashworth’s feet, as the 90-year old relaxes in his easy chair in his apartment in Amherst. The dog is panting hard, his long pink tongue hanging below his jaw.“He is going to drool on you and leave a...

By LISA SPEAR

Masseuse Nanci Newton of Hadley places a folded towel under Sue Monahan’s shoulder as she prepares her client for a massage.“Are you comfortable? ...Say uncle if you need to,” she says as she begins to work her hands across Monahan’s back. Newton uses...

By MIRANDA DAVIS

GREENFIELD — Nurses, union members and other supporters gathered around the two main entrances to Baystate Franklin Medical Center to cheer on the nurses who had to leave their shift because a three-day lockout began Sunday night in response to their...

Last week’ s vandalism of the bronze owl sculpture on Main Street in Northampton struck a deep nerve in a community that values public art in many forms. The attack left an emotional scar as well as physical damage to a memorial for Eva Trager and...

By EMILY LAUFER

On June 5, I came home from a long day at work to a letter stuffed in between my doors from the Northampton Housing Authority (NHA).The letter, titled “Removal of Furniture or Items in Common Areas,” instructed all Hampshire Heights Residents to...

By Nyssa Kruse

NORTHAMPTON — Demonstrations to raise awareness of sexual harassment continued Friday at JFK Middle School. As about 100 seventh-graders walked to Look Park for a school trip, about 10 in the group held signs with messages like “Our bodies, our...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — In response to the one-day strike by nurses planned for Monday, Baystate Franklin Medical Center has decided to lock out nurses from the hospital starting Sunday evening and lasting until Wednesday evening, according to a letter sent by...

Amherst and Sunderland have made commendable commitments to improve recreational opportunities in those communities.A partnership between a neighborhood group and the town resulted in reviving Markert’s Pond, which is part of the 5-acre Pondview...

By ANDY CASTILLO

CONWAY — Miracles come in small packages. And, as River Street resident Amanda Kantor discovered early Tuesday morning, sometimes at the bottom of a muddy well.The evening before, while out for a walk along the South River with her mother-in-law,...

By REBECCA MULLEN

NORTHAMPTON — Erin Samson’s condo sits on a corner lot at the Hampshire Heights public housing development.Like all the homes at Hampshire Heights, Samson’s has a covered front porch and an expanse of grass that leads out of her back door down to a...