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By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

WESTHAMPTON – Hampshire Regional senior student-athletes gathered on Tuesday to sign letters of intent to play collegiate athletics. Seven graduating seniors will play college sports at the Division I and III levels.Fresh off a Western Mass....

By Alexa Lewis

WESTHAMPTON — In an unusual twist for any budget year, residents at Saturday’s Town Meeting gave serious consideration to voting down the town’s portion of funding for the Hampshire Regional School District.Their argument? The town’s contribution to...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

HARTFORD, Conn. – As the South Hadley baseball team exited the handshake line with Hampshire Regional and ran toward their team meeting in center field, Tigers players yelped with glee, flung their gloves into foul territory and smiled wide. They had...

By Alexa Lewis

WESTHAMPTON — The fraught debates surrounding the Hampshire Regional Education Association’s contract have come to an official end, with the School Committee voting to ratify a new three-year contract during at its Monday meeting.The contract, already...

By ALEXA LEWIS

WESTHAMPTON — An experienced educator who recently led the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District has been offered the job of interim superintendent for the Hampshire Regional School District, giving the district another year to find a permanent...

By EMILEE KLEIN

WESTHAMPTON — After over a year of contentious negotiations and 224 days without a contract, Hampshire Regional Education Association and the School Committee have agreed to a contract.The tentative contract between the school district and the...

By Aria Martinelli

WESTHAMPTON — Mary Poppins will be flying over the Valley this week — perhaps a precursor for the arrival of the total eclipse in three weeks time.But for those who don’t want to wait that long, Hampshire Regional High School is presenting the...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

BOSTON — Hampshire Regional’s Nick Brisson had an impressive showing at the MIAA Division 5 Indoor Track and Field Championship at the Reggie Lewis Center on Wednesday. Brisson, a senior, competed in the boys’ 1,000 meters where he finished in a time...

By BRADYN COTE

AMHERST — The Amherst girls basketball team’s fourth quarter scoring proved to be too much for Hampshire Regional on Monday as the Hurricanes defended its home court on its senior night, 42-34.Both teams were looking to bounce back from losses, but...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTHAMPTON — The Southampton Select Board agreed last week to withhold paying its quarterly assessment to the Hampshire Regional School District in response to ongoing challenges in the school district’s business office that are putting the town’s...

By MADDIE FABIAN

WESTHAMPTON — As Hampshire Regional School District teachers approach five months of working without a contract, over 115 community members showed up to an online forum Thursday night in support of the union’s fight for a new deal.The forum was held...

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON – After a close first quarter between the Amherst and Hampshire girls basketball teams, the Raiders ramped up the pressure and got hot on the offensive end.The Hurricanes had no answer.Hampshire outscored Amherst 21-5 in the second quarter...

By GARRETT COTE

Hampshire Regional boys soccer head coach Dan Moynahan decided midway through the year that he was going to put seventh grader Aidan Miklasiewicz on varsity despite him being undersized compared to the other players on the field he’d be competing...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HUDSON — The tears formed behind Brian McGan’s mirrored sunglasses.Hampshire Regional’s softball coach for the past decade watched his final game through the darkened frames, but took them off after the Raiders’ 5-0 loss to Grafton in the Division 2...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

WESTHAMPTON — Hampshire Regional’s last postseason softball loss occurred June 11, 2014.Grafton beat the Raiders 2-0 at Worcester State in the Division 2 state semifinals.Since then, Hampshire has won three more Western Massachusetts championships and...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

MONTAGUE — Nerves affect even two-time defending state champions before their first playoff game.The Hampshire Regional softball team swung at pitches outside the strike zone and popped out three times in the first two innings against Easthampton in...

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Sophie Gatzounas led the South Hadley girls track & field team to a strong showing at the Western Massachusetts Heptathlon, Wednesday at Hampshire Regional in Westhampton.Gatzounas won the event with 3,522 points. Lindsay Marjanski was third with...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

GREENFIELD — For the fourth straight year, the Hampshire Regional softball team will enter the Western Massachusetts Division 2 tournament as the top seed.“For the most part because of our strength of schedule we figured it would be that way,”...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

WESTHAMPTON — Students filling the auditorium at Hampshire Regional High School closed their eyes as motivational speaker Cara Filler asked them to think of the most important person in their life.Many friends and family members popped into the their...

By GAGE NUTTER

WESTHAMPTON — Hannah Labrie finished first in every event she competed in during the Hampshire Regional girls track and field team’s 85-57 win over Monson on Thursday.The sophomore finished first in the long jump (15 feet, ½ inch) and the triple jump...