At a heated special Town Meeting this week, voters rejected a warrant article seeking to take by eminent domain the easement on a small portion of Shutesbury Road land to ensure that the easiest ...

Since the advent of ChatGPT and similar AI models, college professors have scrambled to try to counteract students from coasting on assignments when chatbots can seemingly do all the work for them.

NORHTAMPTON — Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School’s new lottery admissions system official opened for the 2026-2027 year on Nov. 1 and will accept applicants until Feb. 1, 2026. In May 2025, ...

In recent times of conflict, it’s common to picture young men in their late teens going off to war. But Samuel Eddy, a Chesterfield blacksmith, was 40 years old when left to fight for the Union in the ...

Readers of last month’s column will recognize this month’s as “Small-town Races II.” We recently had Greenfield’s Don Maynard race, the Summit Run in Hadley and Conway’s Covered Bridge 10K; now here ...

Fifty-three years ago this month I earned a title that to this day is one of my most cherished accomplishments, that of a United States Marine. The 10th of this month we celebrate the 250th birthday ...

David R. Knightly Sr. Amherst, MA - David R. Knightly Sr., a lifelong resident of Amherst, lived a full and active life defined by hard work, service, and devotion to family. In his youth, David was ...

HADLEY — Hadley officials are sticking with a single-tax rate for all properties this year, with the average homeowner expected to pay around $170 more, even as members of the Select Board say they ...

Dennis E. Barcomb, aged 76, of Hatfield, unexpectedly passed away at his home on November 2, 2025, a little over two weeks after the death of his wife Karen on October 18th. He wa ...

Ziomek, 92, died in her home at Applewood in Amherst on October 31, 2025. Beverly was born in Marlborough, MA on May 11, 1933, the daughter of Miriam ...

Over the course of a college hockey season, teams are bound to turn in a stinker of a performance every now and then. Under the tutelage of head coach Greg Carvel, those instances are few and far ...

On the same night that voters ushered in a new era in city government by selecting a new mayor for the first time in eight ...