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By STEVE PFARRER

Summer brings outdoor music as well as any number of artistic performances, including theater, literary readings, dances and more.And it’s not just big blowout events like the Green River Festival.In Hadley, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum has...

By NAOMI Scully-Bristol

HUNTINGTON — Independent journalists in Romania are about to get a helping hand from Kathryn Koegel, a Huntington resident who recently landed a Fulbright award that will bring her back to the eastern European country where she did similar work in...

By JAMES PENTLAND

HUNTINGTON — Presents, clothing, books and other items were delivered over the holiday season to local children under the Hilltown Holiday Help program.The Hilltown Community Health Center, along with the Gateway Regional School District National...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

ERVING — Gateway Regional School District’s curriculum director, the principal at Athol Community Elementary School and the director of assessment and accountability for the Westfield Public School District are the finalists to become the next...

By Alison Kuznitz

BOSTON — A new State Police unit will work with other law enforcement agencies and community partners as Gov. Maura Healey’s administration looks to bolster strategies for addressing hate-based incidents tied to race, ethnicity and religion, among...

By STEVE PFARRER

In 1973, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington house in Hadley, which dates to 1752, won designation on the National Register of Historic Places, the federal program that supports and coordinates efforts to protect the nation’s historic and archeological...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — Mass Humanities has awarded over $160,000 to five cultural organizations in the Valley to help them sustain or increase their staffing, the larger goal being to help those groups “create, restore and grow humanities programs.”The grants...

ARC at A.P.E.NORTHAMPTON — In 2016, the A.P.E. Gallery started a new program with the acronym ARC: Activate, Research, Create, the idea being to stage short exhibits designed to probe “the relationship between the public, the work, and the space in...

By JOHN MCVEIGH

So for many years I have been complaining about the direction that Hilltown Community Ambulance Association was going in with their former director and some board members, publicly, privately and recently at Huntington’s Annual Town Meeting last June....

By DOMENIC POLI

The United States is experiencing the deadliest bird flu outbreak in its history, labor costs continue to increase and the national average price of gas hovers around $3.40 per gallon.But what’s that got to do with the price of eggs? It turns out,...

By BERA DUNAU

WILLIAMSBURG — Town residents will be able to get an update on the Mill River Greenway project and provide feedback on it and adjacent projects at a community forum on Sunday at the Town Offices in Haydenville.The event will take place from 2 to 4...

By BERA DUNAU

WESTHAMPTON — Town Democrats will hold a party caucus Thursday, giving them a voice in the selection of candidates for governor and other statewide offices. However, eight other Hampshire County communities will not be sending caucus delegates to the...

By BERA DUNAU

HUNTINGTON — A body believed to be that of Robert Sherman, who was last seen Feb. 7, was discovered Tuesday afternoon in the vicinity of Norwich Lake.According to the Northwestern district attorney’s office, the body was found about 75 yards from a...

By BERA DUNAU

Policing is changing in the hilltowns, and more change is on the horizon.Both Worthington and Plainfield moved to having full-time chiefs this year. Chesterfield and Goshen are considering regionalizing their police departments after the chiefs in...

By FRAN RYAN

HUNTINGTON — A one-time tavern that is believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad, the landmark 1790s building that houses the Huntington Country Store is for sale.Store owners Becky Butler and her husband, Randy, have operated the...

By FRAN RYAN

HUNTINGTON — A 136-year-old church will be sold at auction later this month in a first for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield.The diocese, which covers Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties, plans to place St. Thomas Catholic...

Last week’ s vandalism of the bronze owl sculpture on Main Street in Northampton struck a deep nerve in a community that values public art in many forms. The attack left an emotional scar as well as physical damage to a memorial for Eva Trager and...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — An early morning assault of a cab driver ended in the arrest of a Huntington man and an injured Northampton police officer.Police received a call around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday from a cab driver who said a passenger pulled a knife on him on...

By STEPHANIE MURRAY

HUNTINGTON — There is a portion of the Westfield River that runs through Paul LaPointe’s backyard in Huntington that separates the professional whitewater racers* from the amateurs.The rocky, 100-yard stretch called “the gorge” splits into two parts:...

By Fran Ryan

Three hilltown communities were among the 36 towns in western Massachusetts that received grants from the state’s Municipal Small Bridge Program this week.Chesterfield received $250,000 to rehabilitate a bridge on Ireland Street over the Jackson...