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By Stephen Fay

HOLYOKE — Something’s cooking in the lower level of the former Wauregan Paper Mill on Dwight Street.Crispy polenta. Mushroom and thyme risotto. Pork shoulder tagliatelle.The menus are many and varied. And should you be fortunate enough to be a guest...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — The state’s Department of Environmental Protection has fined the Holyoke Country Club, which is owned by Northampton businessman Eric Suher, $15,425 for violating air pollution, hazardous waste and underground storage tank regulations.The...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A Holyoke man was sentenced Friday to more than 15 years in state prison for raping a South Hadley woman and then attempting to have her murdered.Jason Coons, 38, pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to charges of conspiracy in the...

By FRAN RYAN

HOLYOKE — As the American shad migration upstream comes to a close, the numbers of fish passing over the Holyoke dam this year has been encouraging to fish biologist and those from who operate the Robert E. Barrett Fishway.On July 2, the total number...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A Northampton District Court judge has denied a request for four separate trials — one for each alleged victim — for former Hampshire Regional High School girls basketball coach Richard Moussette.Moussette, 56, of Holyoke, was charged...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — It was with music, chants of “freedom” and fists raised high in the air that Holyoke welcomed the controversial, long-jailed Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera on Thursday.Lopez Rivera, 74, is known for his role as a leader of the...

By EMILY CUTTS

HOLYOKE – A Southampton man is being held on $20,000 bail after allegedly assaulting a Holyoke man during a home break-in Thursday morning.Sean Younger, 45, of 5 Cheryl Lane, was charged with breaking and entering in the daytime, armed assault in a...

By JACK SUNTRUP

HOLYOKE — The Connecticut River powered over the Holyoke Dam Sunday under an overcast sky, and hundreds of people stopped to see it.From Route 116’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, that view is not a new one. But for the first time ever, MassDOT on...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A Holyoke woman is being held on $100,000 for her alleged involvement in two separate murder-for-hire plots.Cynthia P. Coons, 50, pleaded not guilty in Northampton District Court Thursday morning to a charge of conspiracy in the first...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTH HADLEY — A 67-year-old South Hadley man whose sister said had an adventurous streak died unexpectedly in India this week while trekking a popular trail in India. “He enjoyed life to the fullest,” said June Greener by phone from her home in...

By DERRICK PERKINS

HOLYOKE — Authorities have released additional details about an early morning drug raid Thursday that rattled the city’s long troubled Churchill neighborhood.Early reports indicated federal, state and local law enforcement officials netted massive...

By EMILY CUTTS

HOLYOKE — “Nothing about us without us.”The slogan used in the disability rights, identity and populist movements was echoed Wednesday morning by Daisy Hernandez, of Voices From Inside and Voices Carry, during an almost two-hour discussion on criminal...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HOLYOKE — Learning that two young girls were being abused while living with a Northampton man, Donna Lloyd turned to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, and its Children’s Advocacy Center in Franklin County, for help in bringing the...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — At least six women have accused former Hampshire Regional High School girls basketball coach Richard Moussette of exposing himself to them individually on multiple occasions when they were high school students between 2009 and 2012,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

President William McKinley's visit to Northampton, South Hadley and Holyoke in 1899 came with great fanfare: parades, public gatherings and accolades at the commencement ceremonies at Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges.Nearly 118 years after the...

By JACK SUNTRUP and AMANDA DRANE

HOLYOKE — Investigators said Wednesday an electrical problem was the cause of a New Year’s Day fire that killed three people and destroyed a five-story apartment building.“An electrical fault in the third- floor apartment ignited this tragic fire,”...

By AMANDA DRANE

HOLYOKE — Milton Galarza and his wife, who is seven months pregnant with their son, almost didn’t make it out of their fourth-floor apartment alive when a fire ravaged the building on New Year’s morning.He said his friend Trevor Wadleigh of...

By JACK SUNTRUP

HOLYOKE — Authorities on Tuesday had no word as to the cause of a New Year’s Day fire that claimed three lives in the Flats neighborhood of Holyoke.Hampden County District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni’s office did announce Tuesday, however, that Trevor...

By Caitlin Ashworth and Jack Suntrup

Radio personality Monte Belmonte’s fight against hunger took a giant step forward Tuesday when his two-day, 43-mile march from Springfield to Greenfield raised a record $183,299 and counting.“I felt like I had the wind knocked out of me for the last...

By STEPHANIE MURRAY

NORTHAMPTON — Joel Turcotte of Holyoke has played the drums in the downtown area before, but Saturday was a first. He wore a mask of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.But don’t call Turcotte a Trump fan. At his feet was a sign that revealed...