By Credit search: Staff Writer
By CHRIS LARABEE
WHATELY — With the upcoming retirement of the town’s longtime highway superintendent, the Selectboard has kicked off the search process for a replacement.
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — The fifth meet of the PVIAC indoor track season took place at Smith College on Sunday, and six Hampshire County schools were in action across the two meets.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
SOUTH HADLEY — As they head toward finalizing proposed rezoning regulations along the Route 202/33 corridor, town officials invited residents to weigh in on the plans at a public forum late last week, and weigh in they did, citing concerns about traffic, affordable housing, pedestrian safety and housing density.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
HOLYOKE — For Shannon Rudder, the theme of civil rights in the year 2025 could be summed up with a Curtis Mayfield song: “Keep on Pushing.”
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — Residents worried about drivers speeding through their neighborhoods now have a new way to request traffic calming measures from the town.
By RYAN AMES
AMHERST — Cole O’Hara tied a career-high in points in the UMass hockey team’s 5-2 win over Merrimack on Saturday.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
DEERFIELD — As Tree House Brewing Co. prepares for its next summer concert series, company representatives recently met with residents to hear their concerns.
By RYAN AMES
SPRINGFIELD — Makayla Tatro needed one basket to surpass 1,000 career points after one quarter of the Smith Voc girls basketball team’s game against Pioneer Valley Christian Academy on Friday.
By CAROLYN BROWN
One of the most prosperous individuals in early Southampton was Ichabod Strong, who dammed the Manhan River and established a sawmill there in the early 1730s; that mill complex, once known as the Strong’s Mills complex, now part of the Lockville Historic District. Strong, who was described in a genealogy book as “a man of stirring business qualities of character” and “best of all, a remarkably godly man,” also built four farmhouses in the area, which his sons and grandsons inherited. One of those farmhouses, part of the National Register of Historic Places, is on the market right now.
By CAROLYN BROWN
Marigold Theater in Easthampton now has its own cafe.
By RYAN AMES
NORTHAMPTON — Three free throws decided Thursday night's Smith Voc-Smith Academy boys basketball game.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
The announcement of a proposed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has drawn a wide array of reactions from local organizations, activists and politicians in the Pioneer Valley and the commonwealth, many of whom have been protesting or closely following the events since the war’s beginning in October 2023.
By RYAN AMES
Six points in the Hockey East standings are up for grabs this weekend in the UMass hockey team’s upcoming home and home series against Merrimack.
By RYAN AMES
The Amherst girls swimming team’s 400-yard freestyle relay squad knows what it takes to win.
By GARRETT COTE
In what will go down as one of the best games in UMass men’s basketball and Atlantic 10 history, the Minutemen somehow, some way overcame sickness, foul trouble and 39 team fouls to defeat Fordham 120-118 in a triple-overtime marathon that lasted nearly four hours on the 100th anniversary of Rose Hill Gymnasium in the Bronx on Wednesday night.
By GARRETT COTE
Some high school basketball teams have reached 10 of their 20-game schedule already, and now at about the midway point of the regular season, it’s safe to say there has been some high-level basketball across Hampshire County so far this winter.
By RYAN AMES
AMHERST — On Field Trip Day at the Mullins Center, the UMass women’s basketball team gave the kids plenty to cheer for in its 82-66 win over La Salle on Wednesday.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Rebuilding Amherst Regional High School’s track and its interior field, both in poor condition and identified as priorities for replacement in a town study released more than six years ago, should be underway by late June, shortly after the school year ends.
By CAROLYN BROWN
The late artist Daniel Feldman died in November at the age of 67, a few months before an exhibition of 14 of his works at Gallery A3 in Amherst was slated to open.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — While Hadley has several shopping centers and malls on its commercial corridor, for nearly 20 years the town has prohibited construction of any new retail store exceeding 75,000 square feet.
By GARRETT COTE
HOLYOKE — It didn’t take a Chauncey Ruiz buzzer beater or an overtime thriller for the Holyoke boys basketball team to defeat Northampton on Tuesday night like it has needed in previous games this season, but the Purple Knights did have to dig deep after going the first three and a half minutes of the fourth quarter without a point.
By using this site, you agree with our use of cookies to personalize your experience, measure ads and monitor how our site works to improve it for our users
Copyright © 2016 to 2025 by H.S. Gere & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.