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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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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.
Opinion

George Anderson: More to the utility bill story
I read the Feb.24 story regarding the state DPU proudly proclaiming a 5% reduction in Eversource gas bills starting in March. I have to say I was quite underwhelmed by the amount of the reduction.



Your Daily Puzzles

An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."

A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.

Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.

Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.

Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.
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.
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.

Obituaries

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

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 "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

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