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Scary and true: Half-hanged Mary and the real women behind the area’s most compelling ghost stories
10-25-2024 10:22 AM

By Melissa Karen Sances

“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich NietzscheI have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound. Not that long ago, and not that far from here, a...

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Belchertown Select Board cool to generational ban on nicotine sales, but health authority presses ahead
11-05-2024 6:49 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — The town’s Board of Health will vote to draft a generational nicotine sales ban on Wednesday, preventing anyone born after Jan 1, 2004 from ever purchasing tobacco products in town.Board members, along with Director of Public Health...


$11M in state grants to flow to region
10-27-2024 2:40 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Pedestrian safety and utility infrastructure improvements totaling $4.4 million for an affordable housing development in Easthampton, $1.94 million to build a new roundabout in Amherst at the edge of the University of Massachusetts...


Jack Tulloss: A sociopath at the helm?
10-16-2024 7:10 PM

The writer Alice Roosevelt Longworth once quipped, “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” Could she be Donald Trump’s muse? Seeing that he is a Juilliard-trained narcissistic prevaricator discharging daily geysers of...


Belchertown police chief appeals gun license ruling
10-11-2024 5:43 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Police Chief Kevin Pacunas is appealing an Eastern Hampshire District Court judge’s ruling that reversed his decision to deny a resident’s application for a gun license.In his appeal to Hampshire Superior Court, filed Sept. 23, Pacunas...


Leena’s Place in Belchertown faces state alcohol violation for allegedly serving 22 shots of liquor to underage employees
10-09-2024 6:14 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — A Belchertown restaurant is facing charges for allegedly serving 22 shots of liquor to three underage employees over a six-hour period in early August, one of whom got into a car crash while driving under the influence in Ludlow a short...


Valley Bounty: Beans are her thing: Five years in, Heather McCann of Rustic Outlook Farm has launched her own bean club
10-04-2024 2:30 PM

By JACOB NELSON

When Heather McCann founded her farm, Rustic Outlook, in 2020, she picked a niche that few local farmers have chosen. She decided to make beans her thing.Dry beans, specifically. They’re a pantry staple that lasts for years and a delicious part of...


Starbuck’s opens in Belchertown, as world’s largest coffee chain continues expansion in county
09-27-2024 11:10 AM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Starbucks continued its expansion in the Pioneer Valley on Wednesday with the opening of a cafe in Belchertown on North Main Street, just in time for pumpkin spice latte season.The franchise’s newest Hampshire County location now serves...


Binky battles: Annual Belchertown baby contest the cutest competition in town
09-26-2024 3:06 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

As the last notes of the 165th Belchertown Fair’s annual parade drifts off into the autumn air — quickly replaced by the joyous screams of children on carnival rides and the soft coos of barn animals — babies from around western Massachusetts take...


Arts Briefs: Vinyl and theater in Northampton, art contests in Ware and Belchertown, and more
09-26-2024 3:02 PM

A matter of record(s)NORTHAMPTON — If you like shopping for vinyl records, this news will be music to your ears: the Downtown Market Vinyl & Vintage Fair will have thousands of records (and other vintage goods from local and regional sellers, of...


Belchertown Fair this weekend will pay homage to town’s agricultural roots
09-18-2024 12:17 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — The Belchertown Fair returns to the Commons this weekend for the 165th annual celebration with a packed schedule of free competitions, demonstrations and entertainment for all ages.This year’s theme, “Barn in the USA,” pays tribute to...


Jack Tulloss: Gun rules or guns rule?
09-16-2024 7:24 PM

In his 1775 “Common Sense” pamphlet, Thomas Paine observed, “Society in every state is a blessing, but government in its best state is but a necessary evil.” While society propels collaboration toward goal achievement, government is the unfortunate...


Dave Gottsegen: Positive experience cycling
09-02-2024 7:45 PM

With all the things to be unhappy about these days, I am happy to report my experience as a cyclist in the Belchertown-Granby-Amherst area this summer.I have found drivers almost uniformly courteous, giving me a wide berth, slowing and even sometimes...


Belchertown rallies behind rising high school senior facing sudden cancer diagnosis
08-24-2024 12:14 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — When a Belchertown teenager faced a sudden cancer diagnosis at the beginning of the summer before her senior year, the community at large came out to support her by raising $40,000 through GoFundMe to support her medical treatments and...


Judge overturns Belchertown police chief’s denial of firearms license to resident
08-23-2024 4:49 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Saying that Police Chief Kevin Pacunas’ decision to deny a firearms license to a resident earlier this year was “overly broad, vague and therefore arbitrary and capricious,” a judge last month ordered the town to grant the license.In...


Belchertown to ask voters to reduce speed limits on roads it controls
08-23-2024 2:06 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Speed limits on town-controlled roads in thickly settled areas or business zones might see a decrease by five miles per hour, dropping from 30 mph to 25 mph, if approved at the annual Town Meeting.Police Chief Kevin Pacunas and...


Belchertown to create capital planning blueprint
08-21-2024 3:51 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — After years of rubber-stamping capital projects as funds become available, leaving critical infrastructure work to pile up and deteriorating buildings to wait for repairs, Belchertown this week adopted the town’s first capital planning...


Friends tap into a dream: Arcpoint brewery opens in Belchertown
08-21-2024 2:40 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Brewed with tenacity, poured with purpose.The two slogans of Arcpoint Brewing Company, Belchertown’s first brewery located at 30 Front St., stand out in bright red letters against the blue grey walls painted the same color as the skins...


Jack Tulloss: Into the Valley of Disappointment
08-20-2024 5:45 PM

“Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred.” So wrote Alfred Lord Tennyson in commemorating the heroic yet suicidal mission undertaken by the British Light Brigade in the 1854 Battle of Balaclava. Fast forward to the Pioneer Valley’s contemporary...


An old garden’s revival: Path at former Belchertown State School a labor of love for the volunteers who maintain it
08-19-2024 4:55 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — The only structure that appeared still intact from the first superintendent’s home at the Belchertown State School was a century-old stone wall outlining a small grassy plot at 47 State St.At least that’s what residents believed until...


Belchertown raises stormwater rates slightly this fiscal year after they dropped for three straight years
08-17-2024 3:01 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Despite stormwater rates dropping over the past couple years, residents won’t see similar savings on their stormwater bills for the upcoming year. The Select Board approved a stormwater rate of $6.62 for fiscal year 2025, up 78 cents...

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