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By DIANE BRONCACCIO

DEERFIELD — Vincent van Gogh’s life story is perhaps best told in the 2,000 artworks he left behind before dying at age 37, plagued by mental illness and poverty.A new, groundbreaking feature film, “Loving Vincent,” looks at van Gogh’s life through...

By PETER BLOOD

I spent a week last month walking across New Hampshire on a climate pilgrimage sponsored by New England Quakers. Friends in New England are united in our concern for what we see as the tremendous damage humans are doing to God’s creation.Twenty of us...

By LAUREL DEMKOVICH

NORTHAMPTON — About 30 people “painted the path pink” Monday, tying baby pink ribbons around posts along Elm Street. Wearing everything from pink tie-dye shirts and socks to hats with pink ribbons, the group braved the heat and walked 1.4 miles from...

By JAKE COYLE

NEW YORK — Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has died. He was 73.Family spokesman Chris...

A gathering considering climate change and invasive species last week at the University of Massachusetts Amherst sounded a warning about threats to New England.About 100 experts gathered during the first regional invasive species and climate change...

By Laurel Demkovich

CUMMINGTON — During the day, she greets customers and watches cars drive by on Route 9. At night, she stands tall on the roof, lit up in bovine glory.She is Camille, the Old Creamery Cooperative’s fiberglass cow. She has stood atop the Cummington...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A line of T-shirts unveiled prior to the town’s 250th anniversary in 2009 played off Amherst residents’ penchant for vocally sharing their opinions and vigorously debating issues by unveiling the phrase “Amherst, MA — where only the ‘h’ is...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — An aspiring composer, University of Massachusetts senior Christopher Fonte sees public relations skills and knowledge of social media as vital to pursuing a career in music.“Whenever I have free time, I make music for video games,” says...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

GRANBY — When it comes to selling Halloween costumes and props while trying to compete with retail giants like Walmart and Target, 24-year-old Zachary Gosciminski has learned to think outside the box.For his four-year-old company, Creepy Twists...

By STEVE PFARRER

What’s the connection between tribal art, illustrations of animals and natural settings like forests, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? If you answered “none,” you haven’t met the Derby family of Northampton. Charles Derby, a onetime art teacher...

Backs statewide ban on Native American mascots Thank you, Amalia Fourhawks, for your clear response (“Native American mascot ban needed,” June 16) to the Gazette editorial (“Keep mascot decisions in local hands,” June 15) about a state ban on Native...

By STEVE PFARRER

Octopuses sprawled in armchairs, reading books; tiny mermaids riding on squids. Frogs that skim above the ground on mobile lily pads like flying carpets. And a boy who makes friends with a small cloud at the Empire State building and rides around on...

By LISA SPEAR

A Japanese maple tree with windswept branches leans to one side as if hanging off a mountain cliff —  but this tree has never seen high altitudes and the air here is mostly still.The tree lives in Jim Gipe’s backyard in Northampton in a shallow...

By JACK SUNTRUP

The gypsy moth caterpillar’s on-again, off-again reign of destruction over Massachusetts forests starts in 1868 or 1869 in Medford.Leopold Trouvelot was an amateur entomologist who, in 1852, left France as Napoleon III was fastening his grip on power....

By  LISA SPEAR

After a difficult pregnancy three years ago, Thalia Ghazey-Bates of Northampton gave birth to her twins two months early. When the babies were finally able to come home, she and her husband had to be on high alert: Sometimes they would stop breathing....

By NYSSA KRUSE

EASTHAMPTON — Fairies on stilts, goats, fencers, mystical energy healers and much more took over Cottage Street on Saturday afternoon for the fourth annual Cultural Chaos street festival. The event, run by Easthampton City Arts with the Cottage Street...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

WESTHAMPTON — The large, black walnut tree that stands tall in the heart of Westhampton, towering over the Blacksmith Shop Museum, provides an iconic image: the tree’s branches, broadly reaching against a blue sky.That same image will now officially...

By STEVE PFARRER

Her basic storyline is well known: successful poet and novelist before she turned 30, one half of a literary couple who had a famously stormy relationship, and — sadly — a suicide in 1963, just as her work was beginning to achieve wider notice.But...

By JULIE PACE and ERIC TUCKER

WASHINGTON — Fired FBI Director James Comey will testify under oath Thursday that President Donald Trump repeatedly pressed him for his “loyalty” and directly pushed him to “lift the cloud” of investigation shadowing his White House by declaring...

By JANIE McCAULEY

OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry dribbled every which way and beat LeBron James to the rim in a move reminiscent of his recent MVP magic, and the Golden State Warriors grabbed a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals by downing the Cleveland Cavaliers 132-113...