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It was an even match between the Smith Vocational and Frontier wrestling teams on Wednesday in Northampton. Of the eight matches that were wrestled, the Vikings won four and the Redhawks took four. With Smith Vocational taking 18 points from forfeits,...

An up-and-down contest saw host St. Mary’s hang on for an independent girls basketball victory over Smith Vocational on Monday night in Westfield.The Saints built an early lead and managed to secure a 43-40 victory.Smith Voc saw its six-game winning...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Inside Smith College’s Chase House building on a recent morning, several campus chefs could be seen working diligently in the kitchen, even after the usual breakfast hours in the building had ended.These food experts — about a dozen who...

By GARRETT COTE

South Hadley streaking into marquee matchupFor the second time this season, the South Hadley boys basketball team will meet Monument Mountain – one of two remaining unbeatens in all of western Massachusetts (Duggan Academy being the other). The two...

Clutch baskets and timely defense down the stretch propelled the Smith College women’s basketball team to a wild 82-78 victory over WPI in the Pioneers’ NEWMAC opener on Saturday afternoon at Ainsworth Gymnasium in Northampton.Smith improved to 12-2...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A debate is brewing between a group of legislators calling for a lottery system to determine who gets into vocational schools statewide and the state association of administrators that represents those schools who believe changing the...

By GARRETT COTE

HATFIELD — The Smith Academy girls basketball team came into Thursday night’s game with Duggan having its eyes set on a fifth consecutive win.But Arianna DeJesus (15 points), Shanyiah Jones (12 points) and the Jayhawks’ size were too much, as the...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College guard Ally Yamada battled for a steal, poked the ball to Hannah Martin and took off running up the sideline. Martin swung it up to Yamada as time ticked down in the third quarter.Yamada had no time to think, she just had to...

By STEVE PFARRER

As Christa Whitney sees it, chance has played a big part in her life. But so has her love of history and literature. Whitney is the director of the Wexler Oral History Project at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, a program that has recorded...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL 

NORTHAMPTON — A planned Community Resilience Hub in the works since 2019 may finally have a building to host it.Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra announced Friday that the city has executed an option to purchase the former First Baptist Church building,...

By STEVE PFARRER

Almost a century after she was born, Sylvia Plath is still winning admirers.The famous poet and Smith College graduate, who took her life in 1963 and was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize, has been the subject of a huge number of books and...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Sarah Willie-LeBreton, a sociologist who studies social inequality and race and ethnicity and serves as the provost and dean of the faculty at Swarthmore College, will be Smith College’s 12th president.Trustees for the college Thursday...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — Luma Mufleh, who was shaped by her experience at her beloved alma mater, Smith College, and went on to found the refugee and immigrant education nonprofit Fugees Family, will be Smith’s commencement speaker this year.“I thought it was...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College President Kathleen McCartney plans to step down as the school’s leader in summer 2023, a decade after arriving on campus.In an announcement Friday, the college said that McCartney — Smith’s 11th president — will leave her...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College knew two decades ago that a faculty member had been accused of sexually abusing a minor, but chose not to act on those allegations, allowing him to teach at the college until recently.On Wednesday morning, the Roman...

EDITED BY MAX DUTZIK HENRICKS,PARKER PETERS, NICO RIBADENEYRA and MIRANDA DEBRUYN

Note: This is the first of three narrative reports in a special series produced by Professor Kathy Roberts Forde’s “Longform Narrative” class in the Journalism Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Until the COVID-19 crisis disrupted...

ERIN O’NEILL

Rock legends Aerosmith were reunited with their original tour van from the 1970s, which was plucked out of the Chesterfield woods last summer on the TV show “American Pickers.”Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, hosts of the show on the History Channel,...

By Steve Pfarrer There’s a grand old Victorian house on Crescent Street in Northampton that dates from the 1870s and is full of the kind of architectural details such homes were known for: a steeply-pitched roof, pointed arches and gables and...

   By STEVE PFARRER

It began during a warm, beautiful summer, when many still viewed war as a glorious and noble pursuit, a rite of passage for men marked by dressed battle lines, colorful uniforms, dramatic cavalry charges and quick and decisive campaigns.But when the...

By Shell Lin

Every fall, college freshmen arrive on campus, excited to meet their new dorm mates. But what if one of those new neighbors has fur? More and more students are facing this reality with new policies regarding “comfort animals,” which are basically pets...