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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Reflecting on his time volunteering at the Amherst Survival Center when it was housed in the basement of a former school building, sorting clothes and doing some cooking, Sky Lloyd appreciates how the annual Thanksgiving meal brings people...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — There wasn’t a more thrilling Thanksgiving Day game across western Massachusetts in 2023 than the battle between Northampton and Easthampton at Mountain View School in Easthampton.The Blue Devils entered winless on the season, and the...

By RYAN AMES

The seventh installment of Thanksgiving-Day football between South Hadley and Holyoke has arrived.The Tigers and Purple Knights will square off in their own ‘Battle of the Bridge’ on Turkey Day at South Hadley’s Turf Field at 10 a.m.South Hadley has...

By GARRETT COTE

A season ago, the Belchertown football team was 8-3 and earned a spot in the MIAA Division 5 state tournament. The Orioles crushed rival Pathfinder in their annual Thanksgiving Day game, 61-14, to cap off one of their better seasons in recent...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

While Thanksgiving football games are largely diminishing around the state, there’s one new Turkey Day rivalry that’s growing each year. Franklin Tech and Smith Vocational began playing on Thanksgiving in 2018 and since that time, both programs are on...

By CAROLYN BROWN

Thousands of University of Massachusetts Amherst students have learned from percussion instructor Thom Hannum, whose 40-year career at the college included a tenure as the assistant director, then associate director, of the Minuteman Marching Band...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Florence Holiday Parade will returns again this year on Saturday, kicking off the Christmas season in Northampton.Beginning at Trinity Park at 10 a.m., the parade travels through Florence before ending at the Florence Civic Center....

By CAROLYN BROWN

Through the Gazette’s weather art program, local schoolchildren find artistic inspiration in the world around them – and a Northampton woman finds her own artistic inspiration from them.Judy Van Heyst, 90, is a former art teacher who lives in...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — After nearly a quarter-century as an assistant fire chief for operations and having twice led the department on a temporary basis, Lindsay Stromgren will become Amherst’s next fire chief, pending Town Council review on Monday.Town Manager...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — City Hall will be closed throughout December for an asbestos abatement, with all city departments and staff located within the building to be moved to alternate locations, likely until the new year, according to city officials.During the...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

Leading a roughly 100-person crowd across a two-day, 43-mile trek from Springfield to Greenfield, NEPM radio host Christopher “Monte” Belmonte raised more than $572,000 to end hunger during the 15th annual March for the Food Bank.Belmonte, dressed as...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

AMHERST — “Don’t breathe. Be invisible. We don’t want trouble.”As a woman who grew up under illegal occupation in Palestine, these words became mantras for Fatima Elabed out of necessity. Her daughter, however, Michigan congresswoman and...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A pedestrian who died after being hit by a car in the Big Y parking lot on North King Street has been identified by the Northwestern district attorney’s office as Paul Surgen of Florence.Surgen died from injuries sustained in the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Northampton, Amherst and Hadley are among area communities that have lifted the outdoor burning ban that has been in effect for most of November.The ban was enacted during drought-like conditions that set the stage for numerous brush fires — including...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A five-story, 68-unit project is ready to break ground at 47 Olympia Drive, which when complete will provide another housing option for local college students.Archipelago Investments LLC of Amherst this week received approval for both the...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GILL — The body of a 30-year-old Northampton man was pulled out of the Connecticut River Monday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m.Laurie Loisel, spokesperson for the Northwestern district attorneys office said an investigation is underway and the body is...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Using a role-playing exercise on a recent day at an Amherst elementary school, an upper-grade student was shown ways to build social skills and resolve conflict, abilities that continue to be diminished in the wake of remote learning during...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The weather may have been cold and wet, but that didn’t stop local labor groups and supporters from rallying in front of Northampton City Hall on Thursday, as they continue to call for the restoration of the more than 20 positions cut in...

By EMILEE KLEIN

In a “People’s Town Hall” that attracted over 300 attendees from 25 cities and towns across the region, state Sen. Jo Comerford reminded her “bosses” — the people — that they are the force behind democracy and to make their voices heard as the country...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Two annual events timed to the Christmas season will take place over the weekend.On Saturday at 5:30 p.m is the Celebration of Lights, hosted by the Edward Hopkins Educational Foundation at the Hopkins Academy Gazebo at 131 Russell St.Held...