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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city’s legislative leaders for the next two years are now officially in service, after a swearing-in ceremony Tuesday that featured new faces and experienced officials take the oath of office.The inauguration ceremony held at the...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — One of South Hadley’s most popular parks will undergo a second round of renovations later this year thanks to a $500,000 state grant the town received last month. The town intends to use the money to expand and upgrade Buttery Brook...

By DOMENIC POLI

Eversource has introduced to western Massachusetts equipment that can more quickly restore power to customers in the event of a downed or damaged utility pole.Rapid Pole technology was launched in New Hampshire 13 months ago and rolled out in...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Two LGBTQ+-owned businesses are the first recipients of the city’s new vacant storefront tax credit program, an initiative established in autumn 2022 in an effort to fill empty spaces downtown.The two businesses are Many Graces Farm &...

By James Pentland

AMHERST — Joe Tringali, a 45-year member of the Stavros Center for Independent Living, is being remembered as a tireless advocate for the dignity and rights of people with disabilities. Tringali died Dec. 27 at the age of 71.Stavros CEO Angelina...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — With two purchase proposals submitted for the former Whately Center School, the Select Board has convened a review committee to provide a recommendation on which one to accept.After years of trying to determine the future of the nearly...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — More than one-third of the almost $19 million cost to Amherst for rebuilding the Centennial water treatment plant in Pelham is being covered directly by the state through principal forgiveness on two loans.Town officials on Thursday...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Improvements to the area surrounding the War Memorial Pool, including possible reconstruction of the pool house and basketball courts and future affordable housing developments across town, are being supported by the committee making...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A K-5 mathematics program in the Amherst and Pelham elementary schools, being used in classrooms since fall 2022, appears to be succeeding in getting more students to their grade level, including for children whose first language is not...

By MADDIE FABIAN

Editor’s note: This is the fourth and final article from the Western Mass. Solar Forum series. The first three forums took place in September, and another series of forums is in the works for this spring. AMHERST — Most experts agree solar energy is...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A local lawyer who is now director of the Student Legal Services Office at UMass has been nominated to be a judge in Probate and Family Court.Gov. Maura Healey nominated Bernadette Stark and two other attorneys for the position earlier...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A permanent disaster relief fund to assist farmers devastated by acts of nature, and providing farmers more flexibility for using their properties once they are protected in the Agricultural Preservation Restriction program, are bills the state...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton man who allegedly assaulted his disabled father and held him hostage during a night of terror was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty Friday to a raft of charges in Northampton District Court.Kevin Pardee,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Peter Pouncey, Amherst College’s 16th president, who led the college from 1984 to 1994, died on May 30 at 85, according to the college.Pouncey’s tenure began at a time of unrest and transition, following the unexpected death of President...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — The man accused of shooting a Hadley farmer Dec. 31 will remain in jail following a brief arraignment Tuesday in Hampshire Superior Court.Marc A. Veturis, 28, of Waterbury, Connecticut, through his attorney, Francis Dimento Jr., did not...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Rahsool Diggins didn’t leave the bench the first time he returned home to Philadelphia as a college athlete.UConn didn’t include him among the nine Huskies that took the floor Feb. 5, 2022, at Villanova. Diggins only appeared in nine games his...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — For a dozen years, Yasmin Brandford has owned and operated Amherst Extensions and Beauty Salon, specializing in maintenance and care for African American hair.But Brandford says she didn’t seek American Rescue Plan Act money to grow her 460...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST — The lights in Derek Kellogg’s Amherst house flickered on when he flipped the switch after five years. The family kept the home in Western Massachusetts even after UMass fired him in 2017 and he took over Long Island University.It was like...

BY EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The city’s schools superintendent, Allison LeClair, announced Wednesday her intention to retire at the end of the school year.LeClair, who has been in the education field for 35 years, said in a letter addressed to members of the School...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The arrest of a University of Massachusetts student during an altercation with a campus police officer is being reviewed by the campus leadership team after witnesses expressed concern for the person taken into custody, according to a...