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By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — With fanfare and oversize ribbon-cutting scissors, the WorkHub on Union, a community co-working space at 33 Union St., celebrated its awaited grand opening on Friday evening.The WorkHub, home to The Chamber of Greater Easthampton, hopes...

By Alexa Lewis

EASTHAMPTON — Four months from the opening of a much-anticipated co-working space downtown, the Chamber of Greater Easthampton has launched a capital campaign in hopes that a final fundraising push will provide the money needed to outfit the space on...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The South Hadley Education Association has issued a vote of no confidence in the Mosier Elementary School principal on behalf of 43 staff members at the school.Union President Amy Foley read a shortened version of a statement at a...

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — Outside of Small Oven bakery on Union Street, customers walk carefully around puddles, leaving footprints in the muddy strip where the sidewalk had been just days before. Inside, a line still forms at the register, but according to owner...

By EMILEE KLEIN

WESTHAMPTON — After over a year of contentious negotiations and 224 days without a contract, Hampshire Regional Education Association and the School Committee have agreed to a contract.The tentative contract between the school district and the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Ahead of what is shaping up to be a contentious budget year, school leaders are taking a step back to develop a longer-term vision for the city’s schools.Superintendent Portia Bonner has formed a new strategic planning team to craft a...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional and Union 38 school committees voted unanimously on Wednesday to renew Superintendent Darius Modestow’s contract for another five years.Modestow has served the district in different capacities over the years and...

By MADDIE FABIAN

WESTHAMPTON — As Hampshire Regional School District teachers approach five months of working without a contract, over 115 community members showed up to an online forum Thursday night in support of the union’s fight for a new deal.The forum was held...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Public School district is facing a potential budget shortfall of more than $2.75 million next fiscal year, with school administrators signaling that staffing cuts were not off the table to close the gap — a potential...

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — The number 8 featured prominently outside the UMass Campus Center Thursday afternoon, where dozens of faculty and staff gathered for an eight-minute protest calling on some of the state’s top lawmakers to follow through with 8% raises for...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — After nearly a year without a contract and two years with no raise, about 600 Cooley Dickinson Hospital workers will receive an average wage increase of 21% over 20 months, among other gains in a new contract ratified unanimously this...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — In a post-COVID world, working from home has become commonplace, with around 27% of the United States workforce remote at least part time in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Alongside the rise of remote work is the rise...

By HANNAH BEVIS

The Union Cycliste Internationale, the international governing body of cyclocross, made waves in the cyclocross world when it announced a sudden change in its transgender athlete policy, and those changes will have a direct impact on cycling in the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Unions at the University of Massachusetts are contending that more than 100 state jobs, and their accompanying benefits, are being unlawfully privatized by administrators at the Amherst campus in a restructuring of the UMass Advancement...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — As the Frontier Regional and Union 38 school districts continue the diversity, equity and inclusion work that started three years ago, they are prepared to undergo an “equity audit” to examine how it can provide an equitable...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Each year, the graduating senior girls of Frontier Regional School would walk across the street to join Principal Martha “Marti” Barrett for a traditional tea time at her home.“She used to invite the graduating girls to her house for...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Baystate Franklin nurses head back to the bargaining table Friday, the first time since before a strike and lockout that Baystate Health announced Thursday cost the organization about $1 million.Nearly a month since the nurses went to...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

BELCHERTOWN — After almost a year without a new contract for workers, Belchertown teachers and their school district have agreed to tentative terms, though custodial, secretarial, food service and paraprofessional bargaining units continue to...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — In what is believed to be a first in the region, the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee has unanimously approved a policy designed to protect undocumented students. The policy on the protection of undocumented students states that...

By DAVID McHUGH

FRANKFURT, Germany — The French presidential election could be a turning point for Europe’s biggest economic project, the shared euro currency.Markets are mostly expecting a pro-euro candidate such as former economy minister Emmanuel Macron to win....