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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — In the midst of a search for a permanent principal to oversee the Amherst Regional Middle School, a new interim principal is being appointed for the remainder of the school year.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WESTBOROUGH — The Division of Fisheries and Wildlife announced at Thursday’s Fisheries and Wildlife Board meeting it would cease stocking of rainbow trout in the five-mile stretch of the Upper Deerfield River from the Fife Brook Dam to Zoar Gap, in response to the comments of dozens of anglers in the region.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Improving pedestrian access and parking near Kendrick Park, where a downtown playground is located, and beginning predevelopment on a housing development at the former VFW site on Main Street that will include space serving homeless individuals, are projects being recommended for Community Development Block Grant funding.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A Northampton business owner found herself in the nation’s capital last week at the invitation of Sen. Ed Markey to urge a Senate panel to maintain a pilot program that provides access to capital for budding entrepreneurs to launch businesses.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Collective Copies, a worker-owned, union copy shop, is in the midst of expanding and renovating its production facility at 93 Main St. in Florence, a project that will accommodate the consolidation of its longtime site at 71 South Pleasant St. in Amherst when that storefront closes on May 1.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — A second round of tree cutting in Dufresne Park will take place later this winter along the Kendall Street side of the park, where crews will selectively cut hemlock and pine trees and remove the fallen logs.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A nonprofit formed to raise money for regional dog shelter services in Franklin County is seeking permission from the town of Deerfield to construct an 8,000-square-foot shelter on a 13.4-acre parcel of land off Plain Road East.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that the University of Massachusetts Amherst does not have racially restricted covenants in Northampton.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — After a year of public hearings about a special permit for a gravel pit on Trompke Avenue, the Select Board this week approved the applicant’s request to withdraw their application based on a legal issue with the membership of the board.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Eliminating the reading intervention program, cutting five special education instructors and three paraprofessionals, and reducing hours for specialist instructors and band teachers, are among changes that could be implemented at Amherst’s three elementary schools beginning in the fall.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — At the first of three planned forums, town officials and consultants from edmStudio laid out the costs of two potential future homes for the South County Senior Center.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — For 15 minutes Wednesday morning, Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler turned the Belchertown High School Auditorium into his history classroom, teaching the Belchertown student body about a series of individuals who shattered the glass ceilings for Black people in their respective industries.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — As Smithies made their way around campus at lunch hour on Thursday, 20 or so protesters stood in numbingly cold rain, lining the sidewalk along Elm Street to decry what they allege is the school’s “complicity with genocide,” and voiced three demands.

By RYAN AMES

NORTHAMPTON — Kim Bierwert was a savant.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Joe Minton knows that video games are serious business.

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — A familiar face has returned to the City Council after a competitive appointment process at Wednesday night’s meeting.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — Last week Nancy Cole found herself in “crisis mode.” But she entered this week “crying and laughing,” in awe of what she called the “magic” of her community that rallied to buy the Cummington resident a boiler — raising $21,555 in less than 24 hours.

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — When Leslie Sharr came home to Pleasant View Apartments one day in November to find a notice taped to her door alerting her that she could either sign a new lease with a staggering rent increase or alert the new owners of her intent to leave, she immediately started researching the legality of the situation.

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — An Amherst man arrested Saturday night in connection with the attempted armed robbery of CVS Pharmacy on Northampton Street pleaded not guilty in Northampton District Court to charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and attempt to commit a crime.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — PiNZ, a business featuring an eight-lane bowling alley, more than 40 arcade games and a restaurant and bar with seating for about 150 people, has closed at Hampshire Mall, 367 Russell St.