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By GARRETT COTE

A trio of Hampshire County basketball programs have made it to championship Saturday, as the Northampton and South Hadley girls teams and Granby boys team will compete in their respective title games looking to raise hardware. These same three squads all competed in the Western Mass. finals last winter and are once again back in the big game.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Select Board is contemplating raising fees for trash and recycling over the next two fiscal years, a decision that if approved would come on the heels of a $100 increase this fiscal year to fund implementation costs for a new automated, cart-based trash system.

By RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY – Cara Dean’s 22 points helped the South Hadley girls basketball conquer Sprinfield International Charter School, 62-46, during the semifinal round of the PVIAC Class B girls tournament on Wednesday night.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — After three years of discussion and fundraising, Plains Elementary School will officially change its name to Henry J. Skala School to honor of the school’s late principal.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTH HADLEY — Families at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School are raising concerns to state officials after an educator, removed from a classroom for six weeks following allegations of sexual misconduct, was reinstated in December when a school investigation determined there was no wrongdoing.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Naomi Wood arrived at Plains Elementary School to pick up her 6-year-old son, Hunter Isaiah Wood, when she noticed him stumbling across the playground, eyes crossed.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Dispatcher Jay Rodriguez arrived to his shift at South Hadley’s Emergency 911 Center early — as he always does — when he heard a caller screaming at his co-worker, threatening to harm himself and any responding officers with his firearm.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The South Hadley Police Department has launched a new program that employs radio tracking technology to quickly locate and save residents who are prone to wandering off.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley’s interim superintendent is warning that the slew of new executive orders and funding alterations coming from the Trump administration could destabilize the district’s budget next fiscal year if federal education and health care costs are cut.

It’s not often that we get to tell readers to skank to their hearts’ content, but that’s entirely the point of an upcoming event at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8: namely, “The 1st Annual NU England Ska Summit,” an all-ages festival celebrating ska and nu metal (which the event description jokingly calls “the two most respected genre’s [sic] of music”) at CitySpace in Easthampton.

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST — The South Hadley boys basketball team hung on to clip Amherst, 60-49, Monday night.

By SCOTT MERZBACH and SAMUEL GELINAS

The ever-shifting tariff landscape took a turn late Monday, as the U.S. agreed to pause tariffs on Canada for 30 days, several hours after agreeing to do the same with Mexico. China, meanwhile, was also preparing to talk trade with President Donald J. Trump about impending tariffs on its goods.

By RYAN AMES

In just its third season as a standalone program, the South Hadley wrestling team is on the come up.

By STEPHEN FOX

Honestly, if you simply preached the Gospel to Donald Trump and made him listen, he’d be outraged. All that stuff about loving your enemies, the last shall be the first, and rich men having a hard time getting into heaven? “Radical ideology.”

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — With South Hadley’s Jack Loughrey sidelined tending to a lower leg injury in the fourth quarter, the Frontier boys basketball team clawed its way back into the game after trailing by 17 points entering the frame. The Redhawks went on a 12-3 run – Max Millette scoring 10 of those points – to make it 59-51 midway through.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — It took a leap of faith for Mount Holyoke student Diamond Abiakalam-Chinagorom to commit to a historically women’s college in bucolic Massachusetts an ocean away from her home in bustling Lagos, Nigeria.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A preliminary report on shared services between Fire District 1 and Fire District 2 outline several possibilities for collaboration on purchasing new equipment and standardizing technological systems between the two governing bodies.

Even though we are in the winter season, work is continuing on the Route 9/Norwottuck corridor. With this project, MassDOT is making it evident that safety is a paramount concern. Safety of pedestrians, bicyclists and autos is being addressed in all aspects of this project. The design of “separate” paths” for bicyclists and pedestrians and autos represents a new level of safety.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

SOUTH HADLEY — As they head toward finalizing proposed rezoning regulations along the Route 202/33 corridor, town officials invited residents to weigh in on the plans at a public forum late last week, and weigh in they did, citing concerns about traffic, affordable housing, pedestrian safety and housing density.