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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The demand for school district spending in the city could be further compounded if the Northampton Association of School Employees (NASE) union is successful in obtaining additional wage increases its leadership is asking for in a new contract with the city.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

Mariel Hohmann spent a day late last month welcoming a group of 40 people to a new hiking trail in Goshen where she had spent thousands of hours coordinating volunteer trail construction over the last year and a half.

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — Unlike neighboring communities struggling with significant funding gaps for next fiscal year, Easthampton is heading into fiscal year 2026 on solid financial footing that will enable it to avoid layoffs or wage cuts.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — Cody Reynolds, 31, of Chicopee, pleaded guilty Monday to negligent operation of a motor vehicle in connection with a 2023 crash that killed Christopher Euvrard, 54, of Belchertown. Eastern Hampshire District Court Judge Bruce Melikian sentenced Reynolds to three years of probation.

By BILL DANIELSON

The great spring migration is in full swing and millions upon millions of birds are flying northward across our entire continent every night. The weather will always play a big role in the exact timing of the movements of the birds, but every morning offers up the opportunity to detect the presence of yet another new arrival. Birds often “surf” on waves of air associated with storms, so the first clear morning after a couple days of rain can be particularly exciting.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A consolidation from three elementary school buildings to two is expected to mean some savings for the school budget beginning in July 2026, but Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman is cautioning the spending reductions may be limited.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Heavy traffic, possible delays and road closures will be taking place around the University of Massachusetts campus, both in Amherst and Hadley, starting Wednesday, as students move out and then the undergraduate commencement is held late Friday afternoon. 

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — A condemned home at 320 West St., subject to a demolition order from the town, is heading to a foreclosure auction later this month.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Every UMass athletics program has finally found a home for next season.

By RYAN AMES

NORTHAMPTON – Down a goal with less than two minutes remaining in regulation, the Northampton boys lacrosse team got a break.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

EASTHAMPTON — It didn’t take long for the Easthampton baseball team’s bats to get rolling, as the Eagles put up 10 runs across the first two innings against Amherst on Monday afternoon at Nonotuck Park.

By GARRETT COTE

For so long, the cities of Amherst and Northampton have been ultimate Frisbee hot spots. Talent pours out of the area, starting at the youth level and reaching the collegiate world at UMass. If the fact that the Amherst Regional and Northampton High ultimate teams compete for state titles every year wasn’t enough to stamp the area’s success, having double-digit players in the professional Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA) certainly is.

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — Ahead of an expected round of workforce reductions at the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center based at the University of Massachusetts is preparing for the worst case scenario: elimination of the entire operation.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — One representative called it a “wonderful, reefer-smelling bag” and another worried a drug-sniffing dog might alert to him at the airport later as he passed the bundle of products down the Cannabis Policy Committee dais.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A Sunday afternoon fire at a four-story, nine-unit apartment building in downtown has displaced at least 24 residents, mostly college students, and closed a few businesses.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — With the $4 million plan to construct a new bathhouse at War Memorial Pool considered cost prohibitive, town officials are working with architects to come up with a less-expensive, long-term plan to either rehabilitate or replace the 1950s-era building.

By Staff Report

AMHERST — Easthampton, Amherst and Pelham are in the first cohort of Department of Energy Resources’ Climate Leader Communities, recently announced by the Healey-Driscoll administration

By Staff Report

HATFIELD — An outpost in the 17th century wilderness, Hatfield’s pivotal role in King Philip’s War nearly 350 years ago will be the topic of a presentation by local historian David Brule, president of the Nolumbeka Project, this week.

By Staff Report

HOLYOKE — South Holyoke Homes, a Holyoke Housing Authority development under construction, is taking applications from families interested in buying their own homes.