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By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A nearly 20-year-old housing subdivision off Rocky Hill Road remains a private way, something those who live on the street hope to change this spring.With the first homes built as part of the Birch Meadow Drive development in 2003, residents...

Two years ago, a crowd of hysterical insurrectionists stormed the Capitol to block the counting of electoral votes. Taking their cue from Trump, 147 distempered Republicans voted to throw a valid election into Never-Never Land. Five police officers...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Smoke drifting into New England from wildfires in the western United States last summer, tracked by sensors in Holyoke, Greenfield and other area communities, gave residents real-time information about its causing poor air quality.The...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A Hadley-specific business organization that would serve as a conduit of getting information between businesspeople and town officials is in the early stages of formation.The Select Board on Wednesday voiced its encouragement for the creation...

Why are people so upset about Republican congressman George Santos? Lying about your past isn’t a crime, and if it is, it shouldn’t be. If the people who elected him cared about his lying, they wouldn’t have voted for him. He was just telling people...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — How businesses are granted deferrals from complying with the new plastic bag reduction bylaw that went into effect on Jan. 1 will be the subject of a public hearing Monday.The Board of Health is holding the meeting at 7 p.m. at the Hadley...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A proposed drive-thru coffee shop on Route 9 near the Coolidge Bridge, on a small lot once used as a gas station, can proceed to construction.At a Planning Board meeting Tuesday, members gave their unanimous approval to site plans for the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A Hadley man is recuperating at home and his alleged assailant is in custody in Connecticut following a shooting on Mill Valley Road on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve.The incident occurred shortly before 4 p.m. in the area of 102 Mill Valley...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Email correspondence to all commissioners on the Hadley Housing Authority is prompting a board member to bring an Open Meeting Law complaint against her colleagues.Risë Smythe-Freed on Tuesday filed the complaint against commissioners John...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Customers trying to get into the Wanczyk Nursery parking lot Wednesday morning may have found their way blocked by a narrow trench dug for utilities extending across the entrance and a police officer directing vehicles past the Route 9...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Police reform legislation in Massachusetts and challenges to the health of several officers is making it difficult to keep the Hadley Police Department fully staffed.On the evening of Dec. 21, when the Select Board appointed Officer Jacob...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A small farm in Amherst near the Hadley town line is accepting Christmas trees, with ornaments and tinsel removed, to feed a half dozen goats.Michelle Chandler, who has six Nigerian Dwarf goats at her farm, said that people are welcome to...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Amherst’s blockbuster girls swimming season ended with its first state championship in 2022. The Hurricanes will shoot the sequel with a new director.A four-time conference swimmer of the year in the mid 90’s at New Hampshire, Denise Leckenby took...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — A 35-year-old South Hadley man charged with the September killing of his father in Hampshire County’s second homicide of the year, pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted arson of a dwelling in Eastern Hampshire District Court on...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A Bel Air, Maryland man will serve four years in state prison for sexually assaulting an Amherst teenager last year, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.David Gray Jr., 42, pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTH HADLEY — Typical single-family property owners in Fire District No. 1 will see a nearly $300 increase in their tax bills in fiscal 2023, a significantly larger jump than the average homeowners are facing in Fire District No. 2, based on...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Select Board members are being challenged by the executive director of the Hadley Housing Authority for what she contends has been inappropriate interference in the functioning of its board of commissioners.Executive Director Pamela Rogers,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A Williamsburg woman whose horse fell ill while being kept at a University of Massachusetts stable in spring 2019, and had to be put down, is seeking unspecified damages against the university in a lawsuit alleging negligence in the animal’s...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A Connecticut man allegedly in possession of illegal drugs and a loaded handgun, along with additional rounds of ammunition, was arrested on a series of charges following a traffic stop on Route 9 early Friday morning, according to Hadley...

By BERA DUNAU

HADLEY — A joint investigation by the FBI and Hadley police this week led to the arrest of a New Jersey man who allegedly convinced an Athol woman to buy $330,000 of gold bars from a local jewelry store in Hadley.Gaurang Contractor, 38, pleaded not...