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By GINNY HAMILTON

Thanksgiving is notorious as the busiest car travel holiday. The headaches of traffic snarls can be as emblematic of the holiday as cranberry sauce. Most people can be grateful to experience traffic headaches only figuratively. For some, however,...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

Crabapple trees are one of my favorite ornamental spring trees. A mainstay of the New England landscape, they offer three seasons of interest, plus a handsome branching habit that looks good all winter long, especially when decked with freshly fallen...

By VALERIE REISS

When Cat Thomson and Steve McDonough moved onto their ¾-acre lot in Leeds, the landscaping consisted of dirt, dirt, and more dirt.“It was a blank slate,” said Thomson, a freelance writer and editor. They built their house on developed land that was...

By GINNY HAMILTON

Early on an August Sunday morning, we pulled out of our driveway in a car laden with bikes, camping gear and beach chairs, determined to beat Cape traffic. We hadn’t even made it to the end of our street when I realized I’d left my phone on the...

By PRISCILLA TOUHEY

Q: I have a ton of vinca growing under my trees and would like to start replacing it this fall with native groundcovers. Any suggestions of good options? –R.M., Hatfield A: I am so glad you asked, R.M.! Vinca minor (Periwinkle) does fit the...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

This time of year I spend a lot of time staring at the American sycamore tree behind our house. This is because the tree’s upper branches are a favorite landing spot for Baltimore orioles. Those spectacular orange-and-black birds don’t show up very...

By Tucker Kueny, MD, Carolyn Bentley, PT, Maureen Etchells, PT

Nearly 90 people attended our recent women’s health talk, Beyond Cranberry Juice and Kegels: What You Should Know About Pelvic Floor Health. As clinicians who treat pelvic floor issues in women of all ages — problems ranging from urinary...

By FRAN RYAN

WORTHINGTON — Driving across a field maintained as a snowmobile trail on Tuesday night just after 7:30, a snowmobiler was seriously injured when he crashed into the rear of a U.S. Army Black Hawk medevac helicopter that had landed in the field earlier...

By Jan Alicia Nettler

The frost was still on the ground when an unlikely group of 17 senior citizens, most in their 70’s, some in their late 60’s, gathered in a circle at the Notch Visitor’s Center in Amherst. After a short briefing on safety, introductions and a few...

By Elizabeth Farnsworth

In an “Earth Matters” column this August, I marveled at the myriad methods by which seeds get around. Imagine you’re a seed that has traveled far and landed in a happy place, rich in soil and free of other competing plants. Now you face a new...

By SARAH GARDNER

NORTHAMPTON — A woman walked past a Chevrolet Bolt on display in the Northampton Radio Group parking lot and glanced under the hood. Then she immediately did a double take.“It’s a little weird, isn’t it?” Rie Traub, 46, said. “You look at it and...

By SARAH GARDNER

NORTHAMPTON — When she started planning a health care reform march two months ago, Debby Pastrich-Klemer thought she would be giving a speech in anger.But then, the day before the march, the “skinny repeal” bill, a scaled-down version of plans to...

By PAUL FRANZ

DEERFIELD — A young bald eagle that injured its wing four months ago got a rocky and wet reintroduction to the wild outdoors last Monday morning in Deerfield.Tom Ricardi of the Birds of Prey Rehabilitation Center in Conway had been caring for the...

By Laurel Demkovich and Sarah Gardner

NORTHAMPTON — A day after President Donald Trump announced he wants transgender people barred from serving in the military, area trans advocates expressed dismay and a determination to fight the proposed change. The president tweeted his views...

By SARAH GARDNER

NORTHAMPTON — Martha Stewart was well behaved on Wednesday.“She’s always good,” Jillian Peek, 16, said. “But today she did particularly well. Nice and quiet.”Peek was not talking about Martha Stewart the celebrity homemaker. Martha Stewart is a horse,...

By DANIELLE DUSEAU

BELCHERTOWN — When Longmeadow pulled up to Jabish Brook Middle School with nine players Monday, Belchertown North initially didn’t take it seriously.“You think ‘oh, this isn’t going to be hard,’ even though Longmeadow is a great team,” Belchertown...

By DANIELLE DUSEAU

NORTHAMPTON — Seth Finnessey’s impressive performance in the regular season carried into the postseason.The Northampton pitcher struck out nine to help Northampton avoid elimination and advance to the semifinals of the Western Mass. Sandy Koufax...

By FRAN RYAN

HUNTINGTON — The 136-year-old former St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church on East Main Street was sold at auction Thursday for $75,000 to Gerald Farrelly of Westfield, representing the Farrelly Family Realty Trust.Mark Dupont, spokesman for the...

By Sarah Gardner

SPRINGFIELD — They came with a simple message for Pioneer Valley Transit Authority: Give us more bus options, not less.As the PVTA’s advisory board prepared to meet Wednesday in Springfield, 16 people stood outside to protest proposed cuts to bus...

By ELLIOT WELD

AMHERST — Five runs in the first inning, including a three-run home run from Luke Leonard, helped Amherst beat Frontier 9-1 in the first game of the double-elimination Mickey Mantle baseball playoffs Tuesday.With the score 2-0 after Amherst had hit...