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By SAMUEL GELINAS

WORTHINGTON – With projected revenues falling short of expenditures, the town is “certainly” headed for an override, Select Board Chair Charley Rose said last week.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE – Meaning and money was top of mind for the 250 or so young people who came to network with regional businesses at the Waterfront Event Venue last week.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — Residents are more curious than concerned about their nine-hole, 288-acre, 65-year-old golf course being “rewilded.”

By SAMUEL GELINAS

Trees were dotted with paint, maps went up, and a last round of trash was gathered this week as the Hilltown Land Trust (HLT) gears up to unveil a 2½-mile loop trail as part of Earth Week celebrations.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

BOSTON — Eight months after she started working in a Holyoke marijuana cultivation facility in 2021, 27-year-old Lorna McMurrey died from an asthma attack after inhaling ground cannabis dust while on the job — a death that drew national attention as it was the first to be traced to dust and mold deposits found within marijuana workspaces.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — For the first time in its 254-year history, Williamsburg is creating a master plan to steer the town through the coming decade.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CHESTER — When the retail cannabis industry was paving its way in 2019, advocates for the drug steered away from the stereotype of a reclining, Cheetos-eating stoner and instead promoted the idea that cannabis is a cure-all for a variety of ailments. “It’s natural” was a common mantra.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

SPRINGFIELD — Bishop William Byrne not only introduced the Diocese of Springfield’s new executive director for its Catholic Charities Agency this week but also laid out the evolution that the agency will see now that protection of immigrants is no longer part of its agenda in the wake of federal cuts.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Who is the area’s person of the year?

By SAMUEL GELINAS

SPRINGFIELD — As she stood among more than 100 people gathered outside the offices of U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren in downtown Springfield on Thursday, Kathy Laprade said she’s got her “fingers crossed” that the Trump administration won’t gut Social Security.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

REGION — Pent-up frustration boiled over in Hampshire County on Saturday, where some 5,000 people in as many as six communities eschewed a bitter rain to send a message to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk: stop pursuing cruel policies that attack American rights and freedoms.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

Fatherhood in jail is limited to letters, phone calls, and inch-thick plexiglass that bars intimacy. But that plexiglass was shattered, and the concrete mass that is the Hampshire County House of Corrections became a home for a few hours Wednesday night.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Accusing his Republican colleagues in Congress of being “too scared to stand up to their leadership,” namely, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern is co-sponsoring a new bill designed to block “backdoor” cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP.)

By SAMUEL GELINAS

BOSTON — For a condition that affects 11%, or approximately one in 10 of reproductive age-women, endometriosis is on hardly anyone’s radar, including medical professionals.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Car buyers who have been prolonging the need for a car suddenly have a very good reason to act — cold hard cash.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Believe it or not, something good for all ages can come out of a liquor store — and one of those things has arrived on the Gazette’s comics page.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — The Florence Community Band has put on many concerts in its nearly quarter-century of existence, but the longtime group of volunteer musicians is about to embark on a first as it prepares for this spring’s annual concert.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

GOSHEN — Winds of 20 mph fanned a brush fire that spread across 4 acres Friday that was ignited after illegal burning by the property’s owners.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — The snooze button has been repeatedly pressed on repairs to the town’s offices over the years — but the building is finally waking up.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — Town employees should expect to pay about $38 more a month for health insurance beginning July 1, as the town contends with an expected increase in premiums in fiscal year 2026.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Homelessness and substance abuse are often two sides of the same coin — and a grant distribution of $150,000, matched by three municipalities, signals a focused effort to combat both in 14 Hampshire County communities.