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By KAITLIN JUNOD

BOSTON — Area legislators predict a busy new session beginning in January, with issues including the opioid epidemic, clean energy and educational reform on the priority list.Topping the list is the state’s new law legalizing marijuana, with the Dec....

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Following on the heels of the presidents of four area colleges expressing support for immigrant students, the Select Board has issued a proclamation in advance of Saturday’s Human Rights Day reminding the community that Amherst is a safe...

By AMANDA DRANE

AMHERST — In an ongoing effort to persuade Hampshire College leadership to once again fly the American flag, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno is scheduled to meet with the college president on Thursday.Sarno pushed for the meeting with President...

National attention is focused on Hampshire College, a private institution that finds itself at the crossroads of a debate that erupted after it temporarily stopped flying the American flag at the heart of its South Amherst campus.While the controversy...

By JULIE PACE and LAURIE KELLMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s leaving his business empire to focus on being the nation’s 45th president, bowing to pressure to avoid potential conflicts of interest between governing and profiting in the...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

NORTHAMPTON — Shel Horowitz was 12 years old when he attended a demonstration for peace during the Vietnam War. But that was just the beginning of his role in activism.In the 1990s, Horowitz organized a group called “Save the Mountain” to fight the...

By EMILY CUTTS

For the second straight election, incumbent state Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, is facing a challenge from James “Chip” Harrington in the race for the 1st Hampden and Hampshire District seat.Unlike the first go-around, however, Harrington is now...

By RICHIE DAVIS

Republican state Senate candidate Christine Canning has described herself as “a pit bull with lipstick” and the political byproduct of “a father who’s a left-wing Democrat and a mother who’s a right-wing Republican.” The Lanesborough educational...

By RICHIE DAVIS

After beating back two challengers in the Democratic primary in September, Adam Hinds of Pittsfield is involved in a two-party race for a state Senate seat.The 40-year-old Buckland native and Mohawk Trail Regional High School graduate has repeatedly...

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...

By RICHIE DAVISThe family portrait looks quite unremarkable.The formal 1900-era photograph shows Judah W. Smith, with a large handlebar mustache and neat goatee, along with his somewhat stern-looking wife, Elizabeth, and their five sons dressed in bow...