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By HANNAH BEVIS 

HOLYOKE – The last two regular season games between the Bristol Blues and the Valley Blue Sox both ended in ties. It would have been folly to believe their first postseason matchup could have been anything different. The No. 3 Blue Sox and No. 6...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The Valley Blue Sox clinched a playoff berth with a 12-6 road win over the Danbury Westerners on Thursday in Connecticut.Christopher Willis drove in three runs on two hits for the Blue Sox. Matthew Bergevin homered among his two hits and had two RBIs,...

What a wake-up call. As reported in the New York Times front page article July 17, Big Orange plans to become America’s first dictator if he manages to corrupt the election process in 2024 [“Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power...

HOLYOKE — A second Holyoke man is being held without the right to bail for his alleged role in the murder of a Chicopee man on Lyman Street on May 13.Ryan Navarro, 29, was arraigned Wednesday in Holyoke District Court on a charge of murder in the...

By KERRY DUMBAUGH

Having just passed the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision to restrict abortion access, it is worth considering Anthony Comstock’s terrible legacy of doing more to restrict American women’s reproductive rights than anyone...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Holyoke’s Dante Whitley was one of six Massachusetts seniors that received a college scholarship from Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams.Williams partnered with the organization MENTOR and formed a group mentoring program with young men of color...

Staff reports

A host of Hampshire County athletes represented western Massachusetts in Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association All-Star games last week.In the West Central Senior All-Star Game, Hampshire Regional’s Edward Przybyla had a hit, stole two bases and...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

 HOLYOKE – The seventh inning turned Thursday’s Valley Blue Sox home opener against the Bristol Blues at MacKenzie Stadium from a pitcher’s duel to a blowout.The Blue Sox only trailed by one run after six innings, but the visitors stacked seven runs...

Hopkins students recognized by Junior AchievementHADLEY — Students at Hopkins Academy in Hadley and Holyoke High School are among those recognized by Junior Achievement’s 18 Under 18 Class of 2023.Eleventh graders Veronica Colon, who attends Holyoke...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — For Christina Royal, the power to help students realize their full potential is just like magic. In front of a group of former graduates, state dignitaries and city officials gathered at Holyoke Community College last week to bid Royal...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HOLYOKE — A tradition calls for the Massachusetts governor to hang a framed portrait of a predecessor over the fireplace in the governor’s ceremonial office at the State House, joining the numerous paintings, mostly of white men, lining the...

By RAY AHEARN

The “Americans,” the 1980s TV series which ran for six years, was one of my favorite shows of all time. This drama featured two Russian spies masquerading as northern Virginia travel agents with orders to steal intelligence secrets to send back to...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

A criminal trial can proceed against two former Holyoke Soldiers’ Home officials accused of negligence that led to the deaths of elderly veteran residents early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday.In a 5-2 decision that...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Mike Nuñez sat on his Endicott dorm bed and wondered.His roommate Joseph Matteo had just left for another event with the Gulls men’s rugby team. The sport was unfamiliar, but he understood that camaraderie. Longed for it.“What would that feel like to...

By GRETCHEN SIEGCHRIST

‘Your generation should be out in the streets.” It’s something my father started saying to me just about 20 years ago, at the start of the Iraq war. Or maybe it was a few years earlier, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.He had a point about...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Was anyone surprised that co-coaches Sean MacDonald and Courtney Parent were able to take a group who had never played volleyball before and in just a few months turn them into Western Mass. champions? With the success MacDonald and Parent have had...

By PATRICK O’CONNOR

I considered not writing about my son’s experience playing soccer this winter. I didn’t want to turn a positive —  children competing, learning teamwork and having fun — into a negative, experiencing racial biases in white suburban communities in the...

On Sunday, April 16, at 1 p.m. a memorial ceremony will take place in honor of the late John W. Olver, who served our region in the state Senate and U.S. Congress for 44 years. The event will be held in the beautiful, award-winning, John W. Olver...

STAFF REPORT

HOLYOKE — A cooking fire on Friday claimed one man’s life and injured two firefighters, according to local and state fire officials.The Holyoke Fire Department responded to the area of 19 Donlee St. at about 1:20 p.m. following a report of a fire. On...

Staff Report

HOLYOKE — A Florence man allegedly in possession of about 150 half packages of fentanyl was arrested by Massachusetts State Police on Interstate 91 in Holyoke early on the afternoon of March 24.Jose Rosado, 34, was taken into custody on a charge of...