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By GARRETT COTE

LUDLOW — Mabel Carillon stood at midfield and hesitated before making the long walk to the penalty stripe. A make would crown the No. 1 Granby girls soccer team as Western Mass. Class D champions, a miss would allow No. 2 Hopkins Academy a chance to...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — More than a year after approving permits for winery Wine Haus and Vineyard, the Select Board is seeking legal advice about the validity of a cease-and-desist order issued to the business in June by the town’s Building Department.Located at 16...

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — Easthampton City Council President Homar Gomez is ready to make the leap to Beacon Hill after concluding his uncontested bid to represent the 2nd Hampshire District in the State House.Once he is sworn into office in the new year, Gomez...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Still recovering from a devastating fire that destroyed its barn and farm store at 7 Carver St., Red Fire Farm in Granby is receiving $500,000 from the state’s Farm Security Infrastructure Grant program, money that will go some of the...

By GARRETT COTE

GRANBY — Riley Goodhind stepped to take a corner kick about two-thirds of the way through the second half of Tuesday afternoon’s Western Mass. Class D semifinal matchup between No. 2 Granby and visiting No. 3 Monson. With the game knotted at two...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Residents voted down the proposed animal control bylaw at the special Town Meeting Monday night, calling the legislation “unduly restrictive” for a farming community.“It seems very atypical for a farming community to have a leash law,”...

After a competitive and scoreless first half between the Hopkins Academy and Granby boys soccer teams, the visiting Rams finally broke through with a goal late in the second half.Riley Goodhind received a pass from Jaxton Roy and found the back of the...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — A special Town Meeting next week will give residents a chance to approve a property tax work off program for seniors and veterans and adopt a new animal control bylaw with stricter leash laws.Voters will discuss the six-article warrant...

In his Oct. 5 letter [”Weakening academic standards will result in fewer job opportunities for Mass. students”], Ed Lambert encourages citizens to vote “no” on Ballot Question 2. He states that businesses are having a hard time finding qualified...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Luka Azeuedo, who is just under 2 years old, squirms in the arms Alphabet Soup Childcare Center emplyee Casey Rougeau while she positions him to look into a small black machine playing bird sounds and flashing blue, green and red dots.“Can...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — The company that hopes to operate a gravel pit off Trompke Avenue has scaled back its proposed operations considerably in an amended special permit application that the Select Board took under advisement Thursday night.LJ Development, of...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — A new animal control bylaw approved by the Select Board would impose stricter leash and nuisance laws for all domestic and personally-owned animals, from dogs and cats to ferrets and horses.The decision to revamp the laws came in the wake of...

By EMILEE KLEIN

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes heroes are made by happenstance.That certainly is the case for Mike Barker, a 1998 Granby High School graduate and resident in the Washington, D.C. area who found himself at the right place at the right time late on the...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — While making its journey to the Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, a piece of a New York fire truck that melted and warped from the flaming aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks snapped in half from the vibrations from travel.Matt Bail,...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Give, touch, wait, OK.Winnie, a gray poodle mix with fluffy ears and a puff at the end of her tail, looks at her owner Naomi Rosenberg with big, excited eyes. She had followed each command from Rosenberg enthusiastically to get to her...

By GARRETT COTE

HATFIELD — It wouldn’t be a Granby/Smith Academy boys soccer game without a close, physical and grind-it-out style of play.The two teams have tied their last five regular season meetings dating back to 2021, and a game hasn’t been decided by more than...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — A public hearing to discuss a special permit for a controversial proposal for a gravel pit on Trompke Avenue was postponed Tuesday evening due after the applicant and representatives reported that three of them were too ill to attend the...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Father Michael Goodreau, pastor at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, will oversee the Catholic Charities Agency of the Diocese of Springfield as its new president, expanding his work as a Catholic and spiritual leader from his parish in Granby...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — A new roundabout is taking shape along Route 202 at its intersection with School Street — not far from The MacDuffie School — one of two busy intersections undergoing renovations under a combined $4.2 million project led by the Massachusetts...

By GARRETT COTE

GRANBY — Dan Fanion’s round looked as if it was about to turn upside down on the par-3 10th hole during Wednesday’s qualifier for the 2024 Massachusetts Mid-Amateur Golf Championship at Westover Golf Course.After carding a 1-under 35 on the front...

By ELISE LINSCOTT

“The first thing I felt was cancer … she said ‘I was tired and there was no way back,’ which is pretty common for cancer,” South Hadley-based psychic medium and fiction writer Lisa Lanno said to a room of about 50 people one recent Thursday night at...