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By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Window World of Western Massachusetts has a long history of providing quality windows and doors, but the business only provides one piece in the whole picture of home improvement — until now.

‘Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!” Thus spaketh the Trojan priest, Laocoön, upon observing an enormous wooden horse left at the gates of Troy as a peace offering by the city’s mortal enemies. Disregarding the soothsayer’s wariness and in a triumph of optimism over experience, the Trojan leaders ordered the gates opened and had the exotic gift wheeled into the city.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Coming off a year of regional and national honors in baton twirling, the Belchertown Twirlers started their competition season strong when two members earned first and second place in the Pre-teen Miss Majorette of Massachusetts Pageant.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

The week of Jan. 20, 2025, made history in a way few Americans realize. For the first time in 128 years, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, originally called Public Health Reports, was not published due to a gag order placed on all federal agencies by the new president.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Four years after an online petition garnered more than 5,200 signatures in favor of Massachusetts returning 430 acres of state-owned land in Belchertown known as the Lampson Brook Farm to the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band, a new House bill proposes giving the tribe authorization to steward a majority of the farm and forestland.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Revised regulations on the sale of tobacco products in Amherst drafted by the Board of Health, including restricting oral nicotine pouches to adults-only tobacco stores, is winning both praise and criticism from the public, with advocates for curtailing access to tobacco calling for the town to bolster the rules by adopting a nicotine-free generation measure.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — The School Committee is pushing back against a potential $2.1 million cut to its proposed $36 million level-services school budget that would result in the loss of more than 20 positions, a blow to the schools after the committee’s proposed budgets have been cut $4 million in the past five years.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier girls basketball team hasn’t had many tests this season. 

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — The visiting Hampshire girls basketball team continued to hang around as it trailed Belchertown by 10 in the third quarter – looking to make a push to really put pressure on the Orioles.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — A new project called Branding Belchertown aims to overhaul the visual identity of the commuter community in hopes of distinguishing Belchertown as a destination for tourism and business.

Here’s a bit of history: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the reincarnated incarcerated H. Rap Brown, was a consequential figure of the 1960s Black Liberation Movement and author of one of the most iconic aphorisms to emerge from this period. During a 1967 media interview, Mr. Al-Amin declared, “Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie.”

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A New Hampshire timber company has closed on a massive land buy of nearly 2,400 acres in seven communities in Hampshire and Franklin counties, acquiring five parcels for more than $20 million from Amherst-based W.D. Cowls Inc.Including 1,050...

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Three artists will transform the Belchertown Transfer Station’s brown recycling containers into works of art that incorporate opinions from residents in the design and execution of the murals.A collaboration between the Creative Economy...

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — After the Belchertown girls basketball team took a 13-9 lead into the second quarter, visiting Drury went on a 7-1 spurt to start the frame and took a 16-14 lead. But the Blue Devils’ best ball handler, Jacinta Felix, ran into foul...

This Christmas Day, I did not want to read any of the mostly terrible news happening in this country and the world, but I was only too happy to read Andrea Ayvazian’s Dec. 21 column “A blessing while weeding a cemetery in the desert.” Such a moving...

On Friday, Dec. 20, about 5:30 p.m., I was driving home east on Route 9 from South East Street in Amherst. It was terrifying. My good snow tires had zero traction on the icy surface. Vehicles were going 10 mph yet still skidding.At one point I saw a...

BELCHERTOWN — The body of a 27-year-old Belchertown man, last seen by his family two days earlier, was discovered in a wooded area of town Thursday morning, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.Belchertown police officers and...

By GARRETT COTE

Ethan Czaporowski isn’t a stranger to game-winning goals in sudden-death overtime championship game situations. Although Czaporowski was ecstatic and stormed the field with the rest of his University of Vermont teammates after Maximilian Kissel evaded...

What do Sisyphus of Greek mythology and UMass football have in common? Let’s see. Sisyphus was a troublesome king and an unceasing provocation to Zeus. Consequently, Zeus dispatched Sisyphus to the underworld, where Hades deemed that Sisyphus would...

By GARRETT COTE

Maximilian Kissel scored a thrilling goal in sudden-death overtime to lift the Vermont men’s soccer team over Marshall, 2-1, in the NCAA Division 1 national championship in Cary, N.C. on Monday night.It was the ninth championship game decided by...