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By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A proposal to construct a new Mosier Elementary School building is moving forward after the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s board of directors approved the project to begin its feasibility phase. “We’re pretty thrilled,”...

I am writing to express my concern regarding proposed Article 9, which the South Hadley Planning Board intends to bring to a vote at the special Town Meeting on Nov. 13. In talking to my neighbors and people I know in town, many are totally unaware...

The article on new and amended zoning bylaws being voted on at the Nov. 13 South Hadley Town Meeting just scratches the surface of residents’ alarm over the harm they will cause. The zoning hands our town to developers.Even the chairs of the Tree...

By RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY – A pair of goals from Allison Fleury powered the South Hadley girls soccer team past Monomoy, 2-0, in its Round of 32 victory of the MIAA Division 4 state tournament on Wednesday night.Fleury scored once in each half as the No. 7 Tigers...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Despite a recent police staffing study suggesting South Hadley hire five more officers to fill in patrol gaps, residents at a recent forum had a different idea — reduce the workload of existing officers by spending more to address the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Even as about a third of eligible voters in the region and across the state have already cast their ballots in the presidential election, many more voters are expected to come out to the polls on Tuesday to decide national, state and local races, as...

By GARRETT COTE

LUDLOW — It wouldn’t feel right if the Belchertown and South Hadley girls soccer programs didn’t meet in a Western Mass. final. And on Friday, for the fourth consecutive year, the two teams battled it out in the Class B playoffs – the third time in...

I have been both puzzled and disappointed by the Kamala Harris campaign’s failure to put strengthening Social Security at the center of its message. This is an issue that transcends race and region, and appeals to a large majority of voters.Currently,...

By Staff Report

NORTHAMPTON — A South Hadley man was sentenced to serve five to seven years in state prison after admitting in Hampshire Superior Court Tuesday that he stole more than $100,000 in goods from antique businesses in Northampton and Deerfield in 2023,...

Now it’s Trump’s turn. Harris sat down for an interview with Fox and fielded hostile questions from Bret Baier. Little Donald Trump needs to sit down for an interview with MSNBC and answer questions from Rachel Maddow.But he won’t. He no longer has...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — With seven bylaws on the warrant for the Nov. 13 special Town Meeting, residents are raising objections to the proposed changes to zoning bylaws, including the flexible development bylaw, which they say gives too much control to...

By JESSE KOLODKIN

PITTSFIELD — It was close initially, with Taconic recording a first quarter safety and then forcing several South Hadley punts.But the Tigers recovered and their run game and defensive front found another gear in an eventual 33-2 victory at Berkshire...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Ever since Cash, a purebred black Labrador retriever, was about 8 weeks old, he has been University of Massachusetts senior Rachel Pranga’s constant companion, with her around the clock no matter where she goes or what she does.“He literally...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Massachussetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has named South Hadley High School one of the 2024 Schools of Recognition for their improvements in attendance and academic performance over the past three years....

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

SOUTH HADLEY — Sabrina Bardwell was dead set on field hockey.It was the beginning of the school year in the early 1990s, and the seventh grader was choosing her fall sport. But her mother, Betsy Riley, had just started a one-week volleyball program at...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — As the town awaits an invitation from the Massachusetts School Building Authority into the next phase of its school construction grant program, the state agency is estimating that future enrollment at a potential new Mosier Elementary...

By MIKE WALSH

The Tigers came into Friday night with a game plan, and it was a good one.This iteration of the Pittsfield Generals, though, can shred game plans as quickly as junior Freddy Conyers shreds opposing special teams.South Hadley sent the opening kickoff...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The large tower atop Mount Holyoke College’s Clapp Laboratory is named after the people whose fundraising efforts paid for a majority of the building a century ago — the students.The “blue lions” of a century ago raised thousands of...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — While lounging under a tree at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School, middle school student Addison Gosselin felt the tickle of a critter crawling on her leg.Gosselin ushered the little bug onto her hand, and immediately...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Luka Azeuedo, who is just under 2 years old, squirms in the arms Alphabet Soup Childcare Center emplyee Casey Rougeau while she positions him to look into a small black machine playing bird sounds and flashing blue, green and red dots.“Can...