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NORTHAMPTON — Two downtown commercial spaces are vacant in the heart of downtown across from the Academy of Music after ...
12/23/2024

NORTHAMPTON — Two downtown commercial spaces are vacant in the heart of downtown across from the Academy of Music after the closure in recent weeks of side-by-side businesses. Shelburne Falls Coffee Roasters and Mexcalito, previously located at...

Presents have been on my mind. Of course they are. It is the end of the year, the turning to the deepest dark. It is the...
12/23/2024

Presents have been on my mind. Of course they are. It is the end of the year, the turning to the deepest dark. It is the time of Advent and the time of Hanukkah.When I was very young, all of the descendants of my mother’s mother gathered at her home...

HADLEY — Nationwide testing of all dairy herds for the bird flu, testing already completed four times so far in Massachu...
12/23/2024

HADLEY — Nationwide testing of all dairy herds for the bird flu, testing already completed four times so far in Massachusetts, is winning praise from state agricultural officials and local farmers.The virus, also known as Type A H5N1, or Highly...

AMHERST — A contract with the low bidder to construct the $97.5 million elementary school could be in place before the n...
12/23/2024

AMHERST — A contract with the low bidder to construct the $97.5 million elementary school could be in place before the new year, following a delay in signing the deal caused by protests seeking to disqualify CTA Construction Managers of Waltham that...

“Did you smell the barbecue smell in the air?” That was the question many Massachusetts residents frequently asked over ...
12/22/2024

“Did you smell the barbecue smell in the air?” That was the question many Massachusetts residents frequently asked over the last two months.New England is well-known for its vibrant autumn foliage, especially this fall — when days were mostly bright...

HADLEY — Putting standing seam sheet metal or synthetic slate on the roof of the Hadley Public Library, or making signif...
12/22/2024

HADLEY — Putting standing seam sheet metal or synthetic slate on the roof of the Hadley Public Library, or making significant modifications of the roof’s perimeter to allow better venting, could address problems in the 4-year-old building, including...

This column is about the possibility of a cease-fire in the war between Russia and Ukraine, what the terms might be and ...
12/22/2024

This column is about the possibility of a cease-fire in the war between Russia and Ukraine, what the terms might be and what would motivate the antagonists to reach an agreement.Background1991: Ukraine gained its independence upon the collapse of the...

NORTHAMPTON — Sunwood Builders, the Amherst company looking to build new housing on the site of the former St. Mary’s Ch...
12/22/2024

NORTHAMPTON — Sunwood Builders, the Amherst company looking to build new housing on the site of the former St. Mary’s Church in Northampton, has unveiled more details regarding their plans ahead of a Historical Commission meeting to obtain a...

12/22/2024

50 Years Ago■By 8:30 this morning more than 100 people were lined up, stretching around Pleasant and Armory Streets, waiting to sign up for unemployment checks. These were some of the 2,000 Hampshire County workers who have been temporarily or...

SPRINGFIELD — Sometimes when a team loses, self-inflicted wounds or a poor performance stand as the reasons why. Other t...
12/22/2024

SPRINGFIELD — Sometimes when a team loses, self-inflicted wounds or a poor performance stand as the reasons why. Other times, however, the opposing team is simply better.Both were the case on Saturday evening at the MassMutual Center in Springfield,...

AMHERST — Hour-long tours of the Jones Library building, including bringing people to places inside both the 1928 and th...
12/21/2024

AMHERST — Hour-long tours of the Jones Library building, including bringing people to places inside both the 1928 and the 1990s addition that are typically restricted to employees, are taking place over the next two weeks.Similar to tours offered...

HADLEY — A smaller increase in municipal revenues, while the ambulance fund is being incorporated into the town’s operat...
12/21/2024

HADLEY — A smaller increase in municipal revenues, while the ambulance fund is being incorporated into the town’s operating budget for the first time, are among challenges Hadley officials anticipate as they prepare a fiscal year 2026 spending...

CHESTERFIELD — Chesterfield’s property tax rate for fiscal year 2025 will increase by 60 cents from last year to $15.57 ...
12/21/2024

CHESTERFIELD — Chesterfield’s property tax rate for fiscal year 2025 will increase by 60 cents from last year to $15.57 per $1,000 of assessed property value. This translates to the average single-family home assessed at $300,000 paying $4,671 in...

HOLYOKE — Open Square, the net zero energy, mixed-use development spread across seven mill buildings, is getting a $2.5 ...
12/21/2024

HOLYOKE — Open Square, the net zero energy, mixed-use development spread across seven mill buildings, is getting a $2.5 million infusion from the state’s Housing Development Incentive Program for constructing 84 housing units.The award for the...

Makayla Tatro’s 17 points led the Smith Vocational girls basketball team past Hampden Charter, 50-19, on Friday night.Ta...
12/21/2024

Makayla Tatro’s 17 points led the Smith Vocational girls basketball team past Hampden Charter, 50-19, on Friday night.Tatro drilled seven field goals and also hit three free-throws as the Vikings improved to 2-1 on the season.Nyia-Marie Forbes (six...

The journey back to the NEPSAC title game has begun for the Williston Northampton girls hockey team, as the puck has dro...
12/21/2024

The journey back to the NEPSAC title game has begun for the Williston Northampton girls hockey team, as the puck has dropped on the Wildcats’ 2024-25 season.Williston lost to top-seeded Noble & Greenough in the Chuck Vernon Elite Division championship...

NORTHAMPTON — Even many in Donald Trump’s circle are unsure whether the president-elect intends to follow through on his...
12/21/2024

NORTHAMPTON — Even many in Donald Trump’s circle are unsure whether the president-elect intends to follow through on his often expansive, and some would say, hyperbolic rhetoric — the kind of exaggerated speech that heralded a “big, beautiful wall”...

Hunched against the cold in a warehouse filled with freshly picked vegetables, a farm laborer sat down for lunch. But he...
12/21/2024

Hunched against the cold in a warehouse filled with freshly picked vegetables, a farm laborer sat down for lunch. But her mind was somewhere else.“I’m feeling scared, because when I go out, I’m not feeling safe to walk to the supermarket. I’m worried...

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