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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Northampton girls soccer team came away with a grueling, 3-2 win in double overtime in its MIAA Division 2 tournament Round of 32 game against Somerset Berkley on Thursday. Time dwindled down in ...

The House Ways and Means Committee advanced legislation to create a licensing process for home care agencies, require background checks for home care workers, and establish a Home Care Worker and ...

Moving a step closer to a transcendent goal, the Granby girls soccer team remained focused on the immediate with a 6-0 win over Mahar Regional in the MIAA Division 5 tournament Round of 32 on Thursday ...