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NORTHAMPTON — The end of the fiscal year coincided with the conclusion of a 39-year career at the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, as Donna Dudkiewicz retired as the organization’s chief financial officer on June 30.

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GREENFIELD — United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region is wrapping up its annual diaper drive, which formally ends on June 30.

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SPRINGFIELD — A U.S. Marine Corps veteran was sentenced on Tuesday to 24 months of supervised release for stealing benefit payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and submitting a false Purple Heart application through his congressional representative.

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WENDELL — Residents voiced concerns about recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehensions and deportations, and support for a Medicare-for-All system and land conservation, during a town hall-style meeting with the Democrat representing the 7th Hampden District on Monday afternoon.

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It’s long been said that to sing is to pray twice. And a group of Catholic clergymen in western Massachusetts that truly takes that sentiment to heart is slated to spread some cheer in Franklin County later this month.

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NEW SALEM — Chris Ames has been chosen as North Congregational Church’s interim pastor, replacing a man who held the job for more than half a century.

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AMHERST — A renowned expert on the Middle East will visit western Massachusetts on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the situation in Palestine and her new book.

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SPRINGFIELD — A U.S. Marine veteran pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing benefit payments from the Department of Veterans Affairs and submitting a false Purple Heart application to the Marine Corps through his congressional representative.

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Who better to advocate for what women can do in this world than those who have seen it from afar?

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WENDELL — Cleanup has begun at the site of a freight train derailment that sent 15 railroad cars carrying non-hazardous merchandise off the tracks Tuesday afternoon.

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GREENFIELD — The Massachusetts Association for Community Action has launched its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program that helps low-income taxpayers prepare their tax returns.

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Don’t talk to the American people until they’ve had their coffee.

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AMHERST — As a teenager, Skye Wellington frequented Kelly’s restaurant, a nearly 30-year mainstay of a College Street business plaza until closing near the end of 2022.

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GREENFIELD — Lori Streeter, the Franklin County Jail and House of Correction’s superintendent and special sheriff since 2014, has been chosen to serve as retiring Sheriff Christopher Donelan’s interim replacement starting at the beginning of February.

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NORTHFIELD — The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield has decreed that the Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College (TAC) will be an official pilgrimage site for the people of the diocese in observance of the 2025 Jubilee Year.

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NEW SALEM — The new year means a new town coordinator for New Salem.

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WENDELL — The citizens group that formed last year in opposition to a now-withdrawn proposal for a 105-megawatt battery storage facility held a virtual forum last week to shed light on local permitting and the role of municipal power in the wake of...

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State Sen. Paul Mark coasted to reelection on Tuesday, besting Republican challenger David Rosa to earn a second term representing 57 communities throughout Franklin, Hampshire, Berkshire and Hampden counties.The Democrat from Becket will be sworn in...

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GREENFIELD — Coin experts across the region are sounding the alarm about an influx of fakes manufactured in China and infiltrating the U.S. market.Chinese-made counterfeits of collector and circulating coins are more rampant than ever, according to...

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An eastern Massachusetts man is trying to unseat the Democratic state senator who represents 57 communities throughout Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties.David Rosa, a Republican from the Bristol County town of Dighton, is running...

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WORCESTER — The MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center’s executive director is being sued by a former co-worker alleging she has lost out on consulting contracts because of damaging information spread by her ex-colleague.Maura Geary is the first...