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By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — The Belchertown Post 239 Senior American Legion team improved to 2-0 on the season, with its latest victory coming in walk-off fashion in extra innings on Wednesday evening at Belchertown High School.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Kaia Couture had not even considered entering the 44th annual Congressional Art Competition until Belchertown art teacher Elizabeth Teixeira suggested her realistic painting of marbles had enough intricate detail in its reflections, light and shadow to contend with the thousands of submissions from the First Congressional District.

By GARRETT COTE

It was about as ideal a start as the Belchertown Post 239 senior legion baseball team could have asked for on Monday evening on the road against West Springfield Post 207, as Belchertown earned a 4-1 win to start the 2025 season fresh off its second consecutive District 3 title.

By GARRETT COTE

For the last two years, the Belchertown Post 239 Senior American Legion team has been the cream of the crop in Western Massachusetts. Post 239 breezed through their regular season schedule without a loss in 2024 before earning a 6-5 win in the District 3 championship over Aldenville Post 337 for their second consecutive title.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

In nearly six months of hits to the health of Americans, the actions of the House in passing Trump’s so-called “One, Big Beautiful Bill” budget last month have reached a new level of callousness and ignorance. The $880 billion dollar cuts over 10 years in aid to states for Medicaid programs would have disastrous effects.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — The 90-degree weather heated the sea of camping chairs and umbrellas that covered Belchertown High School’s Stadium Field Thursday evening, and people were doing their best to keep cool.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Last September, the City of Belchertown put out a call for muralists to decorate three unusual canvases: transfer station containers, which hold large amounts of recyclable materials. The intent, according to a press release, was to “enhance the visual appeal of the site while also conveying the message that every resident’s effort contributes to a larger process.” Each mural had to use imagery related to Belchertown, drawing from nearly 100 responses to a community survey, and follow the theme “recycle, reuse, reduce, regenerate.”

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — When the high school’s television projected 941 votes in favor of the School Department’s $34.54 million fiscal year 2026 budget to 154 votes against, a majority of the nearly 1,100 in attendance at a packed Town Meeting on Saturday erupted into cheers.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — Even though located at the edge of the Quabbin Reservoir that provides drinking water for millions of residents in and around Boston, Shutesbury has no municipal water supply and has spent almost $700,000 to address contamination from PFAS, or forever chemicals, in private wells.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — A $66 million fiscal year 2026 operational budget, tax relief for seniors and veterans and a slew of projects funded by the Community Preservation Act are hot topics that Belchertown residents will deliberate on Saturday morning during the annual Town Meeting.

By RYAN AMES

BELCHERTOWN — The Belchertown girls tennis team began its MIAA Division 3 state tournament trek with a resounding 4-1 win over Whitinsville Christian on its home court on Wednesday afternoon. The fifth-seeded Orioles’ only defeat came in first singles, but otherwise, it was business as usual for Belchertown in the Round of 32 victory.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Service, sacrifice, the commitment of veterans and active military service members from across Massachusetts and support from their families should always be recognized, says retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford.

By RYAN AMES

BELCHERTOWN — In less than ideal weather conditions, the Belchertown girls tennis team successfully defended its Class B Western Massachusetts title with a 5-0 victory over Frontier on Wednesday in the championship match. Second doubles was the only match to go three sets as the Orioles proved its place as the top-ranked team in Class B, who kept the second-seeded Redhawks pointless for the first time this season.

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 EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Since the first week in March, Belchertown has wrestled with the proper approach to the financial fiscal cliff that’s in front of them — a $1.6 million level-service budget shortfall in the school department that will eliminate 30 positions and close Cold Spring School.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — With two seats on the Select Board up for grabs, voters will decide on Monday which of three candidates will hold decision-making power in town for the next three years.

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — Make it seven wins in its last eight games for the Belchertown softball team, which came out of the gates firing with 13 runs in the first inning and cruised to a 16-0 victory over Hampden Charter on Wednesday afternoon.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — Cody Reynolds, 31, of Chicopee, pleaded guilty Monday to negligent operation of a motor vehicle in connection with a 2023 crash that killed Christopher Euvrard, 54, of Belchertown. Eastern Hampshire District Court Judge Bruce Melikian sentenced Reynolds to three years of probation.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

I was awakened this morning at 5:30 by thoughts of this administration’s destruction of our health care system, our economy, our democracy, our environment, and our friendships with allies around the world. (Many of those whom I know share these night time/early morning preoccupations.)

By RYAN AMES

The Orioles have taken flight.

By JACK TULLOSS

The year 1776 was not a capital one for George Washington. Having lost the Battle of Long Island to the British Army in August, General Washington and the Continental Army retreated across the East River into Manhattan, only to be forced from New York in November, across the Hudson River into New Jersey, and then southward into Pennsylvania.