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UMass hockey: Maine rallies from two-goal deficit, ties Minutemen 2-2 in regular season finale
State bracing for cut of federal funds
Amherst’s town budget facing $500K deficit
Guest columnist H. Patricia Hynes: How women’s equality could change the world
UMass hockey: Cole O’Hara, Minutemen lock down Maine for vital 5-1 victory
Northampton council OKs about half of $600K midyear request to bring back some school positions
Fighting back at fear: Immigrant defenders’ briefing shares knowledge, resolve
Columnist Bill Newman: Battling Trump’s war on truth
Ally Landau’s last-second basket lifts Smith College basketball past Amherst 52-50, into fourth straight NCAA Div. 3 Sweet 16 (PHOTOS)
NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College women’s basketball team’s nine-point fourth quarter lead in the NCAA Division 3 Women’s Basketball second round had evaporated. Amherst College clawed its way back in it on the defensive end, holding the host Pioneers to just six points for the first 9 minutes, 30 seconds of the frame, and got a massive 3-pointer from guard Reagan Pahl with 13 seconds left to tie the game at 50 apiece. Smith’s deafening crowd turned silent as head coach Lynn Hersey called timeout to draw up a play.
South Hadley schools latest county district facing funding woes; 20 student-facing positions slated for elimination
SOUTH HADLEY — Danielle Kelly has offered supplemental reading instruction for almost 500 South Hadley students since starting at the district in 2006, preventing 95% of students from needing special education reading supports and boosting literacy rates.
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A Look Back, March 7
She’s every woman: Meet the western Mass chapter of the International Order of Mrs. Ropers
Arts Briefs: Magical opera at UMass, ‘Hedwig’ filmmaker at Mount Holyoke, and more
What is possible when you get to the root?: The peer-run Wildflower Alliance redefines mental health care
Sports
UMass basketball: Mullins Center says goodbye to the Atlantic 10 with final league home game before move to MAC
AMHERST — When the final buzzer sounded to signal the end of the UMass men’s basketball team’s regular season, which ended in a 74-51 loss to Loyola Chicago on Saturday afternoon at Mullins Center, the arena’s staff immediately began tearing up the floorboards of Jack Leaman Court to get ready for the Minutemen’s hockey game at 7:30 p.m.
UMass basketball: Loyola Chicago dominates Minutemen in regular season finale, 74-51
Women’s basketball: Amherst and Smith advance in Div. 3 tournament and will square off Saturday for first time since 2007 (PHOTOS)
Div. 4 girls basketball: No. 3 South Hadley cruises into Final Four for third time in four years following 55-34 win over No. 6 Carver (PHOTOS)
Div. 2 girls basketball: Defending state champion Medfield eliminates Northampton in quarters, 82-43Opinion
Deb Friedman: Mass deportation is Trump's gift to for-profit detention center contractors
Undocumented immigrants do not endanger the safety, writ large, of U.S. citizens, as shown by U.S. statistics on violent crimes. The tiny portion of undocumented immigrants who commit violent crimes is nonetheless used to justify inhumane treatment, such as the threat of deportation, toward all.
George Anderson: More to the utility bill story
Guest columnist Michael Carolan: A distant cousin helped run off Redcoats on eve of Revolution
Guest columnist Elly Vaughan: Indigenous land stewardship can safeguard food webs in the 413
Guest columnist Mariel E. Addis: What I don’t understand
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Business
Making News in Business, March 7
NORTHAMPTON — The Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce has hired Nia Stimage-Norwood as a program assistant and promoted Jack Brown to marketing director.
Food is in their DNA: New Holyoke restaurant Casa del Pollo offers African American soul food and Latin cuisines 
Clothing retailer J. Crew eyes summer opening at Mountain Farms Mall in Hadley 
Collective Copies renovating Florence store into new headquarters, will close Amherst location 
Business of video games: Digital Development Management has found success helping game developers find larger audience e-Edition
Arts & Life
‘On Golden Pond,’ directed by a therapist: Easthampton Theater Company will stage play about complex relationships later this month
In the play “On Golden Pond,” three generations of a family reconnect at a summer home in Maine, exposing complicated relationships and vulnerabilities. Easthampton Theater Company’s upcoming production of the show runs the weekends of March 15-16 and March 21-23 at Williston Theater.
Speaking of Nature: Opportunity taken: Omnivorous scavengers eat just about anything during the tough months of winter
Climb every mountain: Valley photographer’s new book chronicles transformative Appalachian Trail thru-hike
Aging With Adventure: The challenge of caring
Valley Bounty: Makes sense, saves cents: Local CSA programs advantageous for farms and consumersObituaries
Harriet Rogers
Northampton, MA - Harriet C. Boron Rogers, 98, of Northampton and a former long-time resident of South Deerfield (MA), passed away peacefully on Friday, February 28, 2025 at Rockridge Retirement Community in Northampton MA with her niec... remainder of obit for Harriet Rogers
Claudette Piekarski
Easthampton, MA - Born on July 19,1948 in Berlin, NH. She was the daughter of Simone and Emile Deschene. Claudette quit school in the 7th grade and went to work in a laundry facility with her mother. By the age of 18 she had married the... remainder of obit for Claudette Piekarski
Theodore Roco
Theodore "Teddy" Roco Amherst, MA - Our beloved Theodore "Teddy" Roco passed away peacefully on March 4th 2025. Teddy was a lifelong resident of Amherst, Ma., where he grew up on Rolling Hill Farm. He spent his early years as a truck dr... remainder of obit for Theodore Roco
Stanley Kozlakowski
Holiday, FL - Stanley Kozlakowski of Holiday, FL died unexpectedly on February 19, 2025. He was born to the late Antoni and Veronica (Szwajkowski) Kozlakowski in Poland on September 14, 1951. When he was 11 years old, he moved to the US... remainder of obit for Stanley Kozlakowski
