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Amherst launches red card campaign for immigrant rights
Northampton Education Foundation to start funding K-12 projects in perpetuity
Around Amherst: Wildwood School highlights culture of positivity
Recent precipitation improves region’s drought conditions to ‘mild’
Area property deed transfers, April 11
Making News in Business, April 11
Columnist Olin Rose-Bardawil: Cory Booker speech an authentic American moment
Columnist Tolley M. Jones: Soon ah will be done with the troubles of the world
Navigating neurodivergence: Mothers open The Neuro Bridge to support children and their families
Rallygoers: Save Social Security
SPRINGFIELD — As she stood among more than 100 people gathered outside the offices of U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren in downtown Springfield on Thursday, Kathy Laprade said she’s got her “fingers crossed” that the Trump administration won’t gut Social Security.
ValleyBike to expand its reach with 6-8 new stations and 100 new bikes; Westfield joining program
NORTHAMPTON — ValleyBike Share is adding more than 100 new bikes and welcoming a new city to its operations, thanks to a nearly $1 million state grant.
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A Look Back, April 11
Amherst can’t decide where it is: Is town center uptown or downtown?
Arts Briefs: Classical at UMass, singer-songwriter in Easthampton, and more
‘Art in the Age of Human Impact’: New exhibition at UMass explores complex relationship between humans and nature
Sports
Girls lacrosse: South Hadley’s Ava Asselin notches 100th point in win over Belchertown (PHOTOS)
SOUTH HADLEY — Needing only two points to eclipse 100 for her career coming into Thursday’s contest against Belchertown, South Hadley girls lacrosse senior Ava Asselin wasted no time hitting the century mark. Asselin scored two of the game’s first three goals, the latter coming on a free-position shot where she beat Orioles goalie Riley Nestor low, to accomplish the feat.
HS Track Preview 2025: Amherst returns state champions in Alfandari, Luetjen
High school roundup: Alayna Bailey's HR helps Hopkins Academy take down Northampton (PHOTOS)
UMass basketball: Daniel Rivera joins list of Minutemen entering transfer portal
HS Lacrosse Preview 2025: Defending champ Amherst girls looking to “reload”
Opinion
Guest columnist Jonathan Kahane: Who’s to blame in the art of persuasion?
For 238 years, the Gazette has been informing Pioneer Valley residents of the news of the day, and while doing so has provided the medium for readers to share their earth-shattering (and not so earth-shattering) opinions concerning the pressing affairs affecting them. For years now during the modern (and not so modern) era, I have enjoyed participating in this exercise.
Sam Masinter: Be wary of easy answers to school budget problems
Lillian Cartwright: Libraries gutted
Frances Henry: Ignorance on parade
Guest columnist Joe Gannon: Story on student’s IEP sums it up for public schools
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
With $402K grant, South Deerfield company with focus on supercapacitors poised to expand
SOUTH DEERFIELD — Over the last year, an energy storage solutions research and development company focusing on supercapacitors has been settling into its new facility off of Routes 5 and 10.
‘Delightful’ Northampton store shopping guide Jane Hertz, 88, seeking next gig
Long-vacant former Faces spot in Northampton gets new tenant
Here come the sweetness: Four new businesses prepping to open in downtown Northampton
Area property deed transfers, April 4
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Arts & Life
‘We’re here! We’re queer! We’re ready to cheer!’: New queerleading team hopes to perform at queer sporting events in the Valley
A new group of “queerleaders” in Northampton wants to lift up the LGBTQ community — in more ways than one.
‘Spaces that allow the imagination to be fully realized’: 33 Hawley hosts two fundraising events this month
Speaking of Nature: Cute as a killdeer: The killdeer have just arrived and are busy setting up territories
Here to help the community’s artists: Human Scale Art Space aims to advance visual arts in the Pioneer Valley
Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Paving over historic beauty: A history of the White House Rose Garden that Trump plans to rip upObituaries
Mary Goulet
[IMAGE]Mary Goulet Easthampton, MA - Mary passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on April 8th at Baystate Medical Center. Her family would like to thank the Baystate staff for their compassionate care. Born Mary Louise S... remainder of obit for Mary Goulet
Joyce Merriam
Amherst, MA - Miss Joyce Merriam, age 89, of Worcester and Amherst MA passed quietly on April 3, 2025 after a brief decline in health. Joyce was the daughter of Prof. Kenneth G. Merriam (WPI) and Alice Blandin Merriam of Worcester. ... remainder of obit for Joyce Merriam
Guy Russell Marrocco
Northampton, MA - Join us to celebrate Guy Marrocco's life this Sunday, April 13, 2025 1:00pm at St. John's Episcopal Church located at 48 Elm St. Northampton, MA 01060. Story gathering and reception to follow at Valley View Farm locat... remainder of obit for Guy Russell Marrocco
Kevin Kittredge
Leeds, MA - With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Kevin Thomas Kittredge. Born on January 25th, 1947, in Passaic, New Jersey, Kevin was the loving husband of Carol Kittredge, proud father of Kevin J. Kittredge and Adam P. Kittred... remainder of obit for Kevin Kittredge
