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By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Of all Mount Holyoke College’s distinguished presidents, three stand above the rest as the most transformative: founder Mary Lyon, women’s education pioneer Mary Emma Woolley and Elizabeth Kennan.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Two separate automobile accidents on Sunday resulted in fatalities, claiming the lives of an elderly Hadley man and a Hatfield teen.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — In a town that has never had to bring a Proposition 2½ tax-cap override before voters, officials are beginning the process of informing residents about what adopting a budget up to $2 million above available revenues would mean for their wallets, as well as what services would be lost if they reject the spending plan.

In response to Daniel Lyons’ letter of July 15, regarding the difficulties of transitioning our energy infrastructure to net zero: Solar is now the cheapest method of power generation in the world. The sun works for nothing regardless of geopolitical events. Fossil fuel interests detest this fact, and use “studies” and “experts” to distract. A mixture of fact and fiction serves to preserve the fossil fuel industry.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Posing for pictures, signing autographs and participating in crafts and other activities, Blades, the mascot for the Boston Bruins, and more than 20 University of Massachusetts hockey players, thrilled hockey fans of all ages at the Hadley Public Library Tuesday afternoon.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Three town-owned dams for reservoirs no longer used to supply drinking water for residents are being examined for possible removal.

The new “big beautiful” laws in this country will slow our progress on climate change and increase the consequences. For electric cars, the law changes the amount of time we have for incentives, which are currently 30%. After September that program will end so this is a last chance to buy an electric car with the incentive. Many of the electric car dealers have direct pay. That means that you will be able to sign a document at the time of purchase and, if the car is qualified, you will get $7,500 off the price of the car. You will get your money, even if the law is changed yet again.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Residents in a neighborhood off Rocky Hill Road, being impacted by speeding vehicles whose drivers may be trying to avoid the ongoing Route 9 construction and attempting to find faster ways to get around town, are asking that a speed hump be installed on their road.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Town officials are moving forward with bringing a Proposition 2½ tax-cap override to voters that could provide an additional $1.7 million to $2 million to the $22.76 million fiscal year 2026 operating budget, staving off staffing cuts, covering rising health insurance costs and providing some support for capital and maintenance needs.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Karol and Fred Burgos have seen modest, less than $100, year-to-year increases in their monthly rents since moving four years ago into Woodland Crossing/ Vesta Apartment Homes, an affordable housing complex restricted to individuals and couples age 62 and over.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — An Amherst solar developer and a Hadley farmer could team up on a new agrivoltaic project on farmland on River Drive, continuing what they see as the success of an existing dual-use solar array on Shattuck Road.

By Staff Report

HADLEY — A Chesterfield man who allegedly injured another man with tree loppers during an altercation on Honey Pot Road was arrested Monday morning, according to police.

Two of our region’s most beloved businesses — Dave’s Soda and Pet City and Hadley Garden Center — have collapsed in eerily similar ways. Both were acquired by outside buyers who made warm promises: to keep the businesses running, protect employees, and honor their local legacies. And in both cases, those promises quietly unraveled. Now, Hadley is left with the prospect of shuttered storefronts, lost jobs, and heartbroken local founders and staff.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — As part of the town’s rebranding and marketing efforts, engineer consultant Stantec has identified around 80 signs to install around town for its wayfinding project designed to help residents and tourists navigate Hampshire County’s largest town in terms of landmass.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Formal and casual photographs of students, faculty and staff at Hopkins Academy, write-ups about academics, athletics and other extracurricular happenings and insights into school life and community traditions are included in yearbooks printed annually for more than 100 years.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Delays in getting reimbursements for MassHealth Dental patients remain a challenge for Hampshire Meadow Family & Pediatric Dentistry, more than two months after the practice considered suspending accepting appointments over concerns with the state’s new third-party vendor.

There are limits to what any of us can do to help any others of us. In Plato’s “Theaetetus,” Socrates says “I am like the midwife, in that I cannot myself give birth to wisdom”; and he then says, “The many admirable truths which they bring to birth have been discovered by themselves from within.” Our law schools are supposed to base their pedagogy on the Socratic method, whose applicability to real life situations might not always appear very great. That people cannot always argue their way to the establishment of abiding truths may be seen with the great eloquence of speechifying in Congress in the years leading up to our Civil War.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Massachusetts State Police apprehended a South Hadley man on Monday night after he fled from police in a vehicle and crashed into another vehicle on the Joseph E. Muller Bridge.

By DOMENIC POLI

NORTHAMPTON — The end of the fiscal year coincided with the conclusion of a 39-year career at the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, as Donna Dudkiewicz retired as the organization’s chief financial officer on June 30.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Despite recent repairs on Moody Bridge Road, including installation of a new culvert pipe, members of the Select Board say they are not inclined to support a full, end-to-end, reopening of the street.