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By SARA WEINBERGER

When pro-Palestinian student protests in the U.S., prompted by the war in Gaza, began last fall, Republicans in Congress saw an opportunity to score points ahead of the November elections. Under the guise of protecting Jewish students from...

Tommie Riggins conducts his fishing in a vigorous way. He prowls the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge connecting South Hadley and Holyoke from one end to the other, reaching back with everything he has and casting powerfully into the churning white...

By JAMES PENTLAND

EASTHAMPTON — Hampshire County’s longtime emergency service workers were recognized and roasted and medical teams were honored for life-saving efforts over the past year at the recent annual EMS awards dinner.Receiving 50-year service plaques and...

By ROB MOIR

 Why did sea surface temperatures go up when summer air temperatures did not? This perplexing question arose after last summer’s unusual findings.Ocean surface water temperatures off Boston, Portsmouth and Portland were nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit...

I noticed the city of Holyoke has a fund people can donate to in support of their local schools, and receive a tax deduction.Of course, there may be questions as to the wisdom of financing public goods as charities, and if tax deductions cost more to...

Austerity. This is what you as a city are proposing. Do more with less. You are proposing this for a cohort of students who did not receive a year of education. Let's be real: Zoom school was a failure for most.What is weath? Money sitting in an...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Strong Avenue in downtown will once again be pedestrian traffic-only beginning on Wednesday, marking the return of the “Summer on Strong” season in the city. The closing of the street to vehicle traffic is meant to encourage outdoor...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Continued worries about single-family homes being turned into student rentals in Amherst is prompting a Planning Board member to draft a letter to University of Massachusetts Chancellor Javier Reyes appealing for creation of a committee,...

For the first time in over a decade, the UMass baseball team is Atlantic 10 tournament bound.The Minutemen earned a 5-2 victory on Senior Day over Saint Louis on Saturday afternoon at Earl Lorden Field. UMass secured the series win and clinched a spot...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

AGAWAM – For the first time in school history, Holyoke has qualified a girls relay for Nike Outdoor Nationals.The girls 4x100-meter relay qualified earlier this season, and on Saturday, they won the Western Mass. Division 1 title at the Outdoor Track...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

AGAWAM – Moriah Luetjen’s best race is the 400 meters. Two years ago as a freshman, she won it at the MIAA Division 4 Outdoor Track & Field Championships and followed it up with a first-place finish in the Freshman 400 at New Balance Outdoor...

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WHATELY — A fire at the Rainbow Motel at 64 State Road shortly after midnight early Saturday morning has left 17 people without a home, though all of the residents in the building evacuated without getting hurt.Whately Police officers were the first...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — A $14.52 million fiscal year 2025 operating budget for town and school services and an additional $1.4 million to cover the costs of wastewater treatment plant upgrades were approved by voters at this week’s annual Town Meeting, along with...

By JAMES PENTLAND

CHESTERFIELD — Town Meeting voters approved budgets and a slate of spending articles Monday, but split over the two petition articles on the ballot, Town Clerk Sandra Wickland reported.By a 42-35 margin, voters decided against making the Cemetery...

By Elise Linscott

AMHERST — Several dozen protesters marched out of the 154th UMass Amherst Undergraduate Commencement ceremony this weekend when Chancellor Javier Reyes took the podium, including a few faculty members and people in the stands carrying banners,...

By JIM BRIDGMAN

200 Years Ago ■An enumeration of the inhabitants of Northampton has been recently made, under the direction of the selectmen, for the purpose of ascertaining the number of rateable polls, children in the several school districts, persons not...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

BUCKLAND – Nick Brisson stumbled to the infield grass, laid on his back and did a snow angel.After 750 meters stuck in the pack, Brisson had just completed a comeback in the final stretch of the 800 to win a Western Mass. Division 2 Track & Field...

The Granby softball team scored eight runs in the bottom of the first inning, only to watch visiting Smith Vocational take an 11-10 lead into the bottom of the seventh.The Rams rallied however, plating a pair of runs to walk off with a wild 12-11...

It’s the biggest series of the season for the UMass baseball team, and the Minutemen opened with a doubleheader split against Atlantic 10-leading Saint Louis on Friday at Earl Lorden Field in Amherst.UMass fell, 8-3, in game one before claiming a 6-0...

Many thanks to Lander-Grinspoon Academy for its brutal candor. In a recent recruiting missive, the private day school did a very 2024 thing and said the quiet part out loud: “As the Northampton public school system is introducing inevitable budget...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Weeks of debate over the Northampton school budget neared a conclusion Thursday night after Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra unveiled a nearly $137 million fiscal 2025 budget to the City Council that calls for an 8.5% increase in the city’s...