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By DANIELLE DUSEAU

EASTHAMPTON — The Easthampton Little League Intermediate baseball team defeated Auburn 15-5 at Sheehan Field Monday to advance to the state championship.Easthampton walked off with the win following a nine-run sixth inning that invoked the mercy...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

ORANGE — A Wendell man who authorities say shot and killed the woman he lived with in front of her son was ordered held without bail Monday on multiple charges Lewis H. Starkey III, 53, of Wendell was arraigned Monday on charges of murder, armed...

By SHELBY ASHLINE

COLRAIN — The driver of a 10-wheel dump truck was transported to Baystate Franklin Medical Center following a crash on Jacksonville Road Friday afternoon that left the road temporarily closed.According to Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Worden, the accident...

By FRAN RYAN

CHESTERFIELD — The sun shone brightly Tuesday morning as throngs of people, including Congressman Richard Neal, lined South Street and Main Road in Chesterfield. They wove American flags, and cheered when the blare of a police siren signaled the start...

By Nyssa Kruse

EASTHAMPTON — When Melanie Salvaggio and Katie MacCallum moved to Easthampton last year, they were disappointed to learn the city was no longer accepting bids to operate a boat rental business on Nashawannuck Pond.Then, in 2017, the couple got a...

By ELLIOT WELD

EASTHAMPTON — Easthampton won the District 2 Little League Intermediate championship on Thursday, beating Belchertown, 14-1, at Sheehan Field at Nonotuck Park.Nick Jolicoeur started for Easthampton. In his four innings pitched, Jolicoeur allowed one...

By MIRANDA DAVIS

GREENFIELD — Nurses, union members and other supporters gathered around the two main entrances to Baystate Franklin Medical Center to cheer on the nurses who had to leave their shift because a three-day lockout began Sunday night in response to their...

By RICHIE DAVIS

DEERFIELD — For the first time in years, the state may not have a budget in place for the fiscal year that begins July 1, because revenue projections are a “moving target,” legislators told Franklin County business leaders Friday.In addition, even...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Here’s a prime example of how to turn a marketing class project into a job.This spring, Sierra Myers, a Northampton native, created a new Instagram account for Thornes Marketplace as part of a group project for a Greenfield Community...

By ELLIOT WELD

AMHERST — In past years, when Amherst’s Babe Ruth baseball season ended at the end of May, most of the players were done playing for the summer.Not this year.The Pioneer Valley Youth Baseball League organized a Sandy Koufax Division for the first time...

By NYSSA KRUSE

State officials are advising consumers to use cash instead of debit and credit cards when buying gas after a state investigation found skimmers attached to pumps at two Hampshire County gas stations last month. The state’s consumer watchdog agency...

By FRAN RYAN

WILLIAMSBURG — Staff and faculty at the Anne T. Dunphy School threw a surprise celebration Friday for six longtime teachers who are retiring this month.The retirees, thinking they were attending a simple retirement ceremony at the school, were taken...

By AVIVA LUTTRELL

SOUTH DEERFIELD — A driver from Easthampton escaped serious injury after police say he went off the road on Interstate 91, hit another vehicle and rolled his car over onto the median Tuesday afternoon.Clinton Dawley, 24, of Easthampton, was traveling...

By SHAWN MEDOW

EUGENE, Oregon — Harvard sophomore Gabby Thomas was in fourth place with 50 meters to go in the 200-meter final at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships.With about 15 meters to go, Oregon’s Deajah Stevens, one of the favorites to win the...

By Rebecca Mullen

GRANBY — For the second consecutive year, Granby Junior/Senior High School students are protesting proposed budget cuts that, if approved, could mean the loss of several teaching positions in the district. At 10:50 a.m. on Friday, the school’s...

By SHAWN MEDOW

EUGENE, Oregon — Harvard sophomore sprinter Gabby Thomas meditates to get focused. In fact, it’s part of her training at Harvard.It’s part of her pre-race preparation, too. She needed to do that twice Thursday at the NCAA outdoor track and field...

By REBECCA MULLEN

NORTHAMPTON — I scream, you scream — and with a new handicapped-accessible ramp, everyone is now able to scream for Herrell’s ice cream.The ramp is part of a series of accessibility renovations undertaken by Main Street fixture Thornes Marketplace, an...

By ELLIOT WELD

AMHERST — The sixth-seeded Hopkins Academy baseball team fell to No. 2 St. Mary, 7-1, Wednesday in the Western Massachusetts Division 4 Tournament semifinal round at UMass’ Lorden Field.Saints pitcher Nate Bonini had a no-hitter entering the sixth...

By REBECCA MULLEN

EASTHAMPTON — Nearly eight decades ago, Roma Donais joined the Tuesday Afternoon Club in Easthampton. The young mother and newlywed had no way of knowing in the early 1940s that she would be the club’s guest of honor in 2017.But that’s exactly what...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Rubbing elbows with some of the top players throughout the country and beyond, South Deerfield’s Jonathan Elkins played in the biggest tournament of his young golf career on Monday. The 16-year old, who just completed his freshman year at Taft School...