‘A fun surprise’: Granby family welcomes Isla Veronica McCarthy as Hampshire County’s 1st baby born at Baystate in 2025

01-06-2025 3:21 PM

SPRINGFIELD — While the country celebrated the New Year with fireworks, champagne and sparklers, one Granby family started 2025 with an even greater milestone: a new addition to their growing family.Isla Veronica McCarthy, Hampshire County’s first...


Dry Humor: Online non-alcoholic ‘liquor store’ opens retail destination in Easthampton

01-05-2025 12:01 PM

EASTHAMPTON — Elizabeth Mutti is moving her online non-alcoholic beverage brand into a brick-and-mortar environment downtown — a transformation she hopes will capture the frivolity of the drinking culture but do so with beverages that have been...


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Indoor track: Northampton’s Maeve O’Neil, Allie Sullivan among winners at PVIAC Meet No. 3
01-06-2025 3:51 PM

NORTHAMPTON — The third meet of the PVIAC indoor track season took place at Smith College on Sunday, and  four Hampshire County schools competed while two enjoyed their bye week.Frontier, Northampton and South Hadley all participated in the early...

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Rutherford Platt: The last First Night Northampton?
01-05-2025 12:01 PM

This year’s First Night Northampton was a triumph. From midday until midnight, crowds of people swarmed downtown streets and sidewalks, moving seamlessly from one venue to another. In our case, this started with the Expandable Brass Band, followed by...

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01-02-2025 1:30 PM

SUNDERLAND — In December 1989, one of the coldest on record in the region, John Sackrey was in Conway with a small team building an addition onto a home.That addition, for an associate working with Berkshire Design Group, kicked off a decades-long...

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Newfane, MA - Joan Brick Davis, most recently of Northampton, Massachusetts and Brattleboro, Vermont, died on December 26, 2024 in Brattleboro. She was 96. Born Jo Ann Mona Brick on January 8, 1928 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, she was t... remainder of obit for Joan Brick Davis

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Easthampton, MA - Lydia (Zych) Ciak 0f Easthampton, age 91, passed away in Holyoke Medical Center on Dec 27, 2024. She was born in Chicopee, MA, on December 5. 1933, the daughter of Ludwik Zych and Nellie (Szlachetka) Zych Blecharzyck. ... remainder of obit for Lydia Ciak

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Easthampton, MA - Beverly Allen, age 93, passed away peacefully at home on December 27, 2024. The youngest of 7 children, she was born on January 27, 1931 to parents Harvey and Frances Chase in Fairlee Vermont. She moved to Eastampton i... remainder of obit for Beverly Allen

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Easthampton, MA - Henry E. Hopkins, 72, of Easthampton passed away peacefully, January 1, 2025, at Hospice of the Fisher House in Amherst after a courageous battle with vascular dementia. Henry was born June 2, 1952 in McMinnville, TN, ... remainder of obit for Henry E. Hopkins

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