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Amherst residents Jeffery Cooley, left, Jacqueline Kang, Lise Halpern and Judy Brooks cast their ballots in Amherst Town Hall on Monday, the first day of the state's new early voting program which runs through November 4.

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Sunny, clear conditions expected through Election Day

by Gazette Staff November 7, 2016

(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Question 1: Who Wants More Gambling? A Statewide Ballot Few Seem to Want

by Shraddha Gupta The Boston University Statehouse Program, and Michael Illiano The Boston University Statehouse ProgramNovember 7, 2016

FILE - In this April 16, 1997 file photo, Attorney General Janet Reno testifies on Capitol Hill, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a proposed Constitutional amendment to protect victims's rights. Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, has died early Monday, Nov. 7, 2016. She was 78. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette, File)Joe Marquette

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Janet Reno, former US attorney general, has died

by Curt Anderson Associated PressNovember 7, 2016

(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Question 1: Are referendums being co-opted by money, special interests?

by Mike Illiano The Boston University Statehouse Program, and Shraddha Gupta The Boston University Statehouse ProgramNovember 5, 2016

In this Oct. 4 photo, farm workers inside a drying barn take down newly harvested marijuana plants after a drying period, at Los Suenos Farms, America's largest legal open air marijuana farm, in Avondale, southern Colorado. Massachusetts voters Tuesday will consider Question 4, which would legalize recreational marijuana. The Gazette recommends a no vote.

Editorial: Legalize pot, but not via flawed Question 4

by Staff Report November 5, 2016

Students participate Wednesday in a hip hop dance class at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School in South Hadley. Massachusetts voters Tuesday will decide whether to lift the cap on charter schools by up to 12 annually. The Gazette recommends a yes vote on Question 2.

Editorial: ‘Yes’ on charter schools provides needed alternative

by Staff Report November 5, 2016

Supporters hold signs at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Detroit, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Clinton, Trump target two different Americas in final push

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Kathleen Hennessey Associated PressNovember 5, 2016

Janiya Lewis, 8, hands a copy of the Wildwood Constitution to Amherst Town Manager Paul Bockelman during a assembly where the students at Wildwood Elementary School in Amherst presented the document to the rest of the school.

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Wildwood Elementary School adopts school constitution at convention ceremony in Amherst

by Amanda Levenson For the GazetteNovember 5, 2016

Bill Newman: Opposes Questions 1 and 2, favors 3 and 4

by Bill Newman November 4, 2016

Voters line up at an early voting location in the Student Union at UMass Thursday afternoon, including Alexis Glynn, front, and Sean Murphy. Early voting has been brisk on the UMass campus.

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At UMass, Amherst elementary project foes, proponents vie for students’ early votes

by Chris Lindahl @cmlindahlNovember 4, 2016