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By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — There were no surprises in Sunderland’s town election on Saturday as there were no contested races and just 97 voters went to the polls at the Sunderland Public Library.

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 CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Select Board Chair Tim Hilchey was reelected to his seat on Monday, fending off a challenge from former Select Board member David Wolfram, 814-558.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CHESTERFIELD — Town elections, which will be held Monday, feature a single contested race for a spot on the Hampshire Regional School Committee between incumbent Laura Somes and Westfield Middle School Principal Jesse McMillan.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — A total of 23 uncontested spots for town positions will be on the ballot at Monday’s town election, when polls will be open for residents to cast their votes from 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the second floor auditorium of the Town Offices on Main Street.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WORTHINGTON — On Saturday morning, residents will have a four-hour window to cast their ballots for town officials, with the most prominent being a race for a one-year spot on the Select Board after Steve Smith stepped down earlier this year, whose term continues until 2026.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The May 5 town election will see a rematch of 2022’s race, as former Selectboard member David Wolfram challenges incumbent Selectboard Chair Tim Hilchey for a three-year term.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Incumbents captured most of the votes in Tuesday’s annual town elections, which featured few contested races and drew only 1,552, or 5.79%, of registered voters to the polls.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Races are heating up for the May 19 town election, where two seats on the Select Board and one seat on the School Committee are up for grabs.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — With the deadline to pull election papers set for Wednesday, contests are shaping up for a handful of municipal positions on the Select Board, Board of Health, Town Clerk and School Committee.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — It wasn’t the coffee that had the people inside the First Churches of Northampton energetic and on edge Saturday morning. Some 500 crowded into the church shoulder to shoulder, mutually distressed about the state of national politics — and they voiced those concerns in a coffee hour town hall with U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern that lasted close to two hours.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — For the first time in the city’s 175-year history, the mayor and City Council will have power over the city’s treasurer after voters at a special election on Tuesday agreed to change the position to appointed from elected.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — Saying that serving as mayor has been the greatest honor of his life, Joshua Garcia intends to seek a second term this fall.

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — In the wake of the chaotic approach and results of the United States’ last election, distinguished Amherst College professor Austin Sarat dares to ask whether American democracy is doomed. 

By COLIN A. YOUNG

Just less than half of the roughly 3.5 million voters who cast a ballot in November’s elections here did so in person on Election Day, Secretary of State William Galvin’s office said in a new report on the roughly $8 million costs associated with the...

By HANNAH EDELHEIT

The night before electors for the 2024 presidential race were announced, 19-year-old Kaveesh Pathak wasn’t sure he was going to win. He had spent the last two weeks calling and campaigning to become one of the 11 Massachusetts Democrats to serve on...

By ALEXA LEWIS

Hunched against the cold in a warehouse filled with freshly picked vegetables, a farm laborer sat down for lunch. But her mind was somewhere else.“I’m feeling scared, because when I go out, I’m not feeling safe to walk to the supermarket. I’m worried...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Even many in Donald Trump’s circle are unsure whether the president-elect intends to follow through on his often expansive, and some would say, hyperbolic rhetoric — the kind of exaggerated speech that heralded a “big, beautiful wall”...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and SAMUEL GELINAS

In the days following the presidential election, local LGBTQ organizations began hosting support sessions to help foster community amid rising fears that a second Trump administration will rollback the progress made on rights and legal protections...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Psychedelics hit a dead end on Election Day when the commonwealth’s electorate vetoed legislation to legalize the substances.While supporters of legalizing certain types of psychedelics say they can save lives, opponents fear that such...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Why did the American people elect Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, and not Kamala Harris? Is the status of the nation’s democracy in peril? And where do the American people as a nation go from here? These were some of the...