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By AALIANNA MARIETTA

LEVERETT — Residents elected town officials, signed off on a $7.56 million budget for fiscal year 2025 and passed a resolution calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza during their Annual Town Meeting on Saturday.After uncontested elections, the...

By SHELBY BROCK

SHUTESBURY — Voters gave their blessing to a new bylaw regulating large-scale battery storage and 27 other articles at Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting, with votes on adopting a specialized energy code for buildings and enacting a solicitation bylaw...

50 Years Ago ■Daniel L. Labato, 42, a sergeant in the police department, was appointed deputy police chief by Mayor Sean M. Dunphy at a special meeting of the City Council last night. The $12,999 per year position of deputy chief has been vacant since...

By MARIETTA PRITCHARD

 Recent news reports and events have reminded me that my husband and I are living in a parallel universe. We use a landline and we read print newspapers, which are delivered to our house daily.I have and use a cellphone, but my husband does not. He...

By LAWRENCE PARELES

 I’m writing to recommend that Massachusetts make a new requirement for high school graduation — completion of the FAFSA student aid form. This simple rule would encourage and help more young people go to college.In Massachusetts, where the demand for...

By DR. MEGHAN GUMP

 As a family practitioner and the medical director of Valley Medical Group, I care deeply about my patients and our community. During my 20 years of practicing full-spectrum primary care in Franklin County, I have come to value the relationships I...

We commend Bill Dwight for the historical perspective he provides in his guest column “How to make sense of Northampton’s school budget,” [Gazette, April 20].We are huge supporters of the Northampton Public Schools. Our four daughters all graduated...

Like the letter of April 16 [“More fuding for Ukraine not the answer”] about the war in Ukraine, I too think we must stop prolonging this conflict and carnage with more and more weapons, and urge Ukraine to negotiate a cease-fire and a political...

SOUTH HADLEY— Amid the cheerful greenery popping out everywhere like peepers, a red and black plaid mackinaw will pull you in every time. Inside the coat and under a pulled-down brim smiles Kim Harwood, hard at work with both shovel and spade at the...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — The partnership between HEC Academy and Western Massachusetts Rabbit Rescue began when a non-verbal student wanted to get involved with the community.Many of the volunteer opportunities offered by the therapeutic public day school for...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A fire station, possibly combined with a new community center, or an affordable housing development, are among the concepts unveiled for the front portion of the former Hickory Ridge Golf Course on West Pomeroy Lane, the 150-acre, town-owned...

By Alison Kuznitz

BOSTON — Looking to sidestep controversy over the Cannabis Control Commission leadership, regulators highlighted the increasing profitability of the industry Thursday while discussing their work to implement a state law promoting diversity in the...

By JAMES PENTLAND

WORTHINGTON — Annual town election and Town Meeting are on Saturday, May 4.Polls are open at Town Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Town Meeting begins at 9:30. There are options for early voting and vote by mail.The ballot includes one contested...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

FOXBOROUGH – When I was 8 years old, a Spanish friend of my dad gave me a present. It was a Lionel Messi FC Barcelona No. 10 jersey, with the club’s classic blue and red vertical stripes and the UNICEF sponsor across the front.That jersey was my most...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Significant capital investments that include a $9 million project to replace the Mount Warner and Mount Holyoke water tanks and $2 million to buy a ladder truck for the Fire Department, and adopting a bylaw to permit stand-alone battery...

Broad Brook Greenway parking construction NORTHAMPTON — All Broad Brook Greenway access from Cooke Avenue, including parking and trail access, will be temporarily closed to all public access starting on or about Wednesday. The parking lot is estimated...

Staff Report

GRANBY – Granby Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying three suspects who allegedly used a dump truck to steal $100,000 from a PeoplesBank stand-alone ATM machine in January. On Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 1:26 a.m., police responded to 77...

By GARRETT COTE AND CONNOR PIGNATELLO

AMHERST — For a coach who’s been in the business for as long as UMass football head coach Don Brown has, it’s hard to find something he hasn’t already seen.But during the Minutemen’s month of spring practice, they impressed the longtime coach with...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Northwestern district attorney’s office has identified Christopher Hairston, 35, last known to reside in Pittsfield, as the victim found dismembered in a barrel in a Chapman Street apartment on Monday evening.Suspect Taaniel...