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By Nyssa Kruse

NORTHAMPTON — Matt Grimaldi, a graduate of Northampton High School’s class of 2017, read encyclopedias for fun as a child.Years later, as a high school student, he put this eclectic knowledge to use as a member of the school’s Quiz Bowl team, which...

By ANDY CASTILLO

CONWAY — Miracles come in small packages. And, as River Street resident Amanda Kantor discovered early Tuesday morning, sometimes at the bottom of a muddy well.The evening before, while out for a walk along the South River with her mother-in-law,...

NHA board chairmanresponds to tenant issues I am writing to respond to some of the points made in the article on Hampshire Heights (“Tenants irked by NHA crackdown on outside items, gardens,” June 20).To start, the Northampton Housing Authority...

NORTHAMPTON — A water main break that interrupted service on Audubon, River and Reservoir roads this morning has been repaired. All water service has been restored.Leeds residents should flush their cold water systems, said Donna LaScaleia, director...

By EMILY CUTTS

BELCHERTOWN — A Hadley resident was taken into custody by the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge in Eastern Hampshire District Court on Monday.Abdul Ismail, 27, a citizen of Ghana, pleaded...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

EASTHAMPTON — If you hear a knock on your front door, it might be Nicole M. LaChapelle.The attorney and 20-year Easthampton resident formally announced her candidacy for mayor on Tuesday in front of the Old Town Hall at 43 Main St. Over the next five...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — It was late October 2016, and then FBI Director James Comey had just reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.In a press box at a Donald Trump campaign rally in New Hampshire sat reporters from the New York Times, ABC...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HADLEY — After more than four years of talks, planning, setbacks and fundraising, work finally began Tuesday to repair the historic dam at Lake Warner, also known as North Hadley Pond.The repairs will save both the deteriorating historical structure...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Longtime Amherst educator Mary Custard won the 2017 Louise Gaskins Lifetime Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts Teachers Association on Friday.The dean of students and former athletic director at Amherst Regional High School, Custard...

SOUTH HADLEY – The Select Board will be hosting a coffee hour Wednesday morning.The “In The Community” event will be hosted at McCray's Farm & Creamery from 8 to 9 a.m.Residents are encouraged “to stop by, grab a cup of coffee (or an ice cream – we...

By REBECCA MULLEN

NORTHAMPTON — Erin Samson’s condo sits on a corner lot at the Hampshire Heights public housing development.Like all the homes at Hampshire Heights, Samson’s has a covered front porch and an expanse of grass that leads out of her back door down to a...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTHAMPTON — Voters will decide next week whether to support a $110,000 override to fund additional staff and necessary supplies at the William E. Norris School.A town election to decide on the override is set for Thursday, June 29, from noon to 8...

By NYSSA KRUSE

State officials are advising consumers to use cash instead of debit and credit cards when buying gas after a state investigation found skimmers attached to pumps at two Hampshire County gas stations last month. The state’s consumer watchdog agency...

HADLEY — On Thursday, June 22, Whole Foods Market in Hadley will host a 5 percent Community Giving Day to benefit food security nonprofits in the Pioneer Valley. The store will donate 5 percent of that day’s sales split between Greenfield-based Just...

As communities confront the opioid epidemic in their homes, on the streets and in treatment centers, a new program aims to widen the prevention effort to middle schools through a public-private partnership.Attorney General Maura Healey this month...

By LISA SPEAR

Doug Adler opens his mouth as wide as he can and out booms his voice, “Ahhhhhhhhhh,” smooth and low like an a cappella baritone.He is a slender man, 68, with perfect pitch, but he isn’t in a recital hall, he is a Parkinson’s patient strengthening his...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — An event coordinated by  Hampshire HOPE and the Northwestern district attorney’s office aimed to offer just that: hope in the fight against the opioid crisis.And that’s exactly what it did for Deb McNeice, who said she was devastated...

By FRAN RYAN

WILLIAMSBURG — Staff and faculty at the Anne T. Dunphy School threw a surprise celebration Friday for six longtime teachers who are retiring this month.The retirees, thinking they were attending a simple retirement ceremony at the school, were taken...

By NYSSA KRUSE

The Valley Community Development Corp. will host a community block party, its first, from 1-4 p.m. Sunday on the old courthouse lawn in Northampton, 99 Main St.Tenants of Valley CDC properties can enter a raffle for a free month’s rent, but they must...

By GEIR MOULSON

BERLIN — Helmut Kohl, the physically imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe, has died at 87.Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union party posted on Twitter: “We are in...