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By ALEXA LEWIS
SOUTHAMPTON — In addition to approving the purchase of 52 acres for a new public safety complex, more than 130 residents at last week’s annual Town Meeting OK’d a $21 million budget for fiscal 2025, adopted a new noise nuisance bylaw and rejected...
By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — Navigating the complex violence between Israel and the Palestinian peoples is a difficult task for anyone. For children, the conflict can seem even more daunting and inaccessible. These days, community members at Lander-Grinspoon Academy...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — A city man facing four counts of assault to murder and four felony weapons charges after allegedly trying to kill his neighbors by firing an assault rifle through a shared interior wall at their Wright Avenue home in December will remain...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — Of seven area communities with smart growth zoning districts, Northampton has been among the most successful at developing new homes and apartments, bringing on 211 housing units, 151 of which are affordable, since the district was approved...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HATFIELD — An additional $1.4 million for wastewater treatment plant upgrades, special legislation to allow golf carts on the town’s public ways and zoning amendments to promote cluster housing developments and permit detached accessory dwelling units...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
Amherst boys lacrosse attack Skyler Ferro tallied his 200th career point on Friday night in a 9-4 win over Pope Francis.He needed just two points to reach the milestone, and finished with five – two goals and three assists. On his 200th career point,...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It wasn’t easy for road races to recover following the pandemic. But when you have local support like the WMass Mother's Day Half Marathon in Whately, things can get right back to pre-COVID levels.The 14th running of the Mother’s Day Half Marathon...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
The UMass men’s basketball team added its third transfer of the week on Friday in former Murray State forward Malek Abdelgowad. He has one remaining season of eligibility.Abdelgowad stands 6-foot-10, 220 pounds and played 19 games off the bench for...
Amherst’s Sofia Holden locked it down in the circle on Friday against the Belchertown softball team. A day after recording her 600th career strikeout, Holden went the distance, struck out 11, scattered four hits and walked two while keeping the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — An Amherst resident with two children in the public schools, Jill Brevik made her way to the University of Massachusetts campus Tuesday evening to offer protection to students at a pro-Palestinian encampment, by bearing witness and...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — As the deadline for Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra to a submit a budget proposal for the city draws near, an entrenched battle over the city’s public school budget is coming to a head.The Northampton School Committee defied the mayor’s...
By ALEXA LEWIS
EASTHAMPTON — Outside of Small Oven bakery on Union Street, customers walk carefully around puddles, leaving footprints in the muddy strip where the sidewalk had been just days before. Inside, a line still forms at the register, but according to owner...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
Melissa Power-Greene is surrounded by Northampton girls lacrosse. Her eldest daughter Kyla Power is the varsity coach, her husband Ousmane Power-Greene is the JV coach, and her youngest daughter Imanni Power-Greene is a sophomore star attack.Normally,...
By GARRETT COTE
Tears uncontrollably trickled down Vanessa Butynski’s face as she sat inside her Belchertown home.The Northampton High School girls soccer team – which she’s coached since 2016 – was on a bus headed to Chicopee Comp for the opening round of the 2023...
By DAVID NARKEWICZ
Since leaving office I have avoided the public spotlight, but recent controversy regarding Northampton’s budget and the city’s Fiscal Stability Plan compel me to offer some historical perspective.When I was sworn in as mayor in 2012, our finances...
By STEVE PFARRER
If you build it … you can fly it, too.As Peter Elsea and Jason Lorusso have discovered in recent years, there’s a special satisfaction in building your own plane — or at least assisting in that construction — that can make the experience of flying...
By JAMES PENTLAND
Residents of the Rocky Hill Cohousing community are no strangers to working on art projects together.But, for the Global Art Project for Peace, they’re taking another step — exchanging artwork with a group in another country.“We’ve done other art...
By JACOB NELSON
Local wool for your wardrobe … and for your garden?That’s the idea behind a new project from Western Massachusetts Fibershed, an organization working to strengthen our local fiber economy, right alongside our local food economy.Peggy Hart is a core...
By MICKEY RATHBUN
After long weeks of yearning for gardening weather, we’re suddenly inundated by spring. Endless outdoor chores beg for our attention — composting, mulching, edging, scrubbing birdbaths and, at least in my garden beds, pulling out multitudes of maple...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Senior Center Board of Oversight has opted to not renew the center’s lease to use the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church’s function hall after a disagreement over the Rainbow Elders program.With the current lease expiring May 31,...
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