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By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Voters in Monday’s town election narrowly selected incumbent Jennifer Turner and former Finance Committee member Jonathan Ritter to serve three-year terms on the Select Board.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Since the first week in March, Belchertown has wrestled with the proper approach to the financial fiscal cliff that’s in front of them — a $1.6 million level-service budget shortfall in the school department that will eliminate 30 positions and close Cold Spring School.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — With two seats on the Select Board up for grabs, voters will decide on Monday which of three candidates will hold decision-making power in town for the next three years.

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — Make it seven wins in its last eight games for the Belchertown softball team, which came out of the gates firing with 13 runs in the first inning and cruised to a 16-0 victory over Hampden Charter on Wednesday afternoon.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — Cody Reynolds, 31, of Chicopee, pleaded guilty Monday to negligent operation of a motor vehicle in connection with a 2023 crash that killed Christopher Euvrard, 54, of Belchertown. Eastern Hampshire District Court Judge Bruce Melikian sentenced Reynolds to three years of probation.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

I was awakened this morning at 5:30 by thoughts of this administration’s destruction of our health care system, our economy, our democracy, our environment, and our friendships with allies around the world. (Many of those whom I know share these night time/early morning preoccupations.)

By RYAN AMES

The Orioles have taken flight.

By JACK TULLOSS

The year 1776 was not a capital one for George Washington. Having lost the Battle of Long Island to the British Army in August, General Washington and the Continental Army retreated across the East River into Manhattan, only to be forced from New York in November, across the Hudson River into New Jersey, and then southward into Pennsylvania.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Tightly-packed rows of soil-filled plastic bags hang by clothespin to a laundry drying rack by a window at Renate Robinson’s home. Each bag holds what appears as a long, narrow potato, a few of which have a light purple or green eye peaking out.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

SPRINGFIELD — A Belchertown man was found guilty of one murder and cleared of another after a lengthy trial stemming from a gun battle that took place in Springfield in 2021.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Lucky drivers on the Mass Pike may look out their windshield to see an industrial-sized recycling container with brightly-colored murals of people gardening in upcycled tire planters, critters playing on the Jabish Brook or even the beloved buildings of Belchertown rather than the typical blue, green and brown neutrals.

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — Imanni Power-Greene thought she’d never do it. One hundred goals seemed so far away after tearing her ACL her freshman year. But countless hours of rehab and hard work allowed Power-Greene to come back stronger than ever, and the Northampton girls lacrosse junior entered Tuesday afternoon just one goal shy of the century mark.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — When Kara McElhone, executive director of child welfare nonprofit Children’s Advocacy Center of Hampshire County, searched in vain for a satellite office in Belchertown, Police Chief Kevin Pacunas personally helped her locate a place to rent.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Demolition and abatement of the environmentally-contaminated old power plant on the Belchertown State School property is underway as part of the redevelopment of the sprawling site.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

RFK Jr., the former environmental champion, now head of head of the Department of Health and Human Services, declared just last year that climate change is “real, manmade, and an existential threat.” Yet in late March, all research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — part of HHS — studying the effects of climate change on human health was canceled.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — In response to resident concerns and pleas from an April 1 listening session, the Select Board on Thursday voted to lower the Proposition 2½ override request from $3.3 million to $2.9 million in hopes that a more palatable number will pass at the ballot box.

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — Needing only two points to eclipse 100 for her career coming into Thursday’s contest against Belchertown, South Hadley girls lacrosse senior Ava Asselin wasted no time hitting the century mark. Asselin scored two of the game’s first three goals, the latter coming on a free-position shot where she beat Orioles goalie Riley Nestor low, to accomplish the feat.

The Belchertown baseball team needed extra innings to snatch a victory over Longmeadow on Tuesday night in a contest played under the lights at Dunkin’ Park in Hartford, Conn.

By GARRETT COTE

The Belchertown baseball team has been dying to play baseball. Thanks to a rainout last Monday, March 31, the Orioles’ game against Northampton got postponed. They would have to wait until the end of the week to host Minnechaug for their season opener. Some teams had already played three games by last Friday, but Belchertown was finally suiting up to play their first – a 3-0 loss to Minnechaug.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Residents at a public listening session last Thursday voiced their disappointment over the Select Board’s decision to advance a request for a $3.3 million Proposition 2½ general override to annual Town Meeting this spring, claiming the figure is too high for voters to stomach and puts school funding in jeopardy.