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NORTHAMPTON — After 64 years on Masonic Street, one of downtown’s longest-running stores has closed.Open since 1958, The Old Book Store turned its final page last month. In a phone interview Tuesday, owner Henry Walz confirmed that he is looking to...

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HOLYOKE — The state has reached a settlement with the company that owns the Mount Tom quarry, which it proposed filling with soils unearthed during regional construction projects.For over a year, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation has...

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SPRINGFIELD — As Bunny Croteau drove home one day in the early 1970s, she noticed a vehicle drive by in the other direction, the driver looking an awful lot like her 11-year-old son, Danny.So, when Bunny got home, she looked around for Danny, but he...

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SPRINGFIELD — Almost 50 years after police discovered the body of 13-year-old Danny Croteau floating in the Chicopee River, Hampden County’s top prosecutor said his office concluded Croteau’s killer was former Catholic priest Richard Lavigne, a...

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HOLYOKE — City residents are mourning a 15-year-old boy who was shot to death during a spate of four shootings Saturday.On Monday, police arrested city resident Angel Gonzalez, 22, on a murder charge in connection with the shooting death of the boy,...

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AMHERST — Dora Tseng still remembers the day last year when she brought her newborn baby home to North Village Apartments, the University of Massachusetts family housing complex. She didn’t need to buy much for her son, Fafa, because her neighbors...

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HOLYOKE — The state’s Department of Environmental Protection has fined the Holyoke Country Club, which is owned by Northampton businessman Eric Suher, $15,425 for violating air pollution, hazardous waste and underground storage tank regulations.The...

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NORTHAMPTON — New England Treatment Access, the Massachusetts marijuana company whose Northampton store was one of the state’s first two recreational dispensaries, has been sold to a cannabis company with a growing national footprint.Surterra...

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SOUTH HADLEY — The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School is looking for a new director after trustees voted Monday to fire head of school George Simpson. The board’s decision comes a month after Reading police arrested Simpson on...

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AMHERST — The first of two listening sessions on the composition of a school building committee for the Fort River site will occur next Tuesday.In May, Town Meeting appropriated $250,000 for a feasibility study that is to include an in-depth...

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NORTHAMPTON — A man suffered minor injuries Wednesday when he crashed his vehicle through a large bush and into the side of the Whiting Energy Fuels building off Barrett Street. The man, whom officials did not identify, was taken to Cooley Dickinson...

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U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, is one of 237 members of the House to co-sponsor a controversial bill that the American Civil Liberties Union says would impose harsh penalties on U.S. citizens who support a boycott of Israel.The bill, known as...

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PELHAM — School officials here say their district is facing a troubling budget shortfall after a local charter school erroneously listed two students as living outside the Pelham district last fall. The recent correction of that mistake, coupled with...

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NORTHAMPTON — Health care, Donald Trump and war were some of the topics of conversation when U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Worcester, visited 19 residents of Rockridge Retirement Community for an intimate conversation on Friday.Earlier in the day,...

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HOLYOKE — It was with music, chants of “freedom” and fists raised high in the air that Holyoke welcomed the controversial, long-jailed Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera on Thursday.Lopez Rivera, 74, is known for his role as a leader of the...

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HADLEY — After more than four years of talks, planning, setbacks and fundraising, work finally began Tuesday to repair the historic dam at Lake Warner, also known as North Hadley Pond.The repairs will save both the deteriorating historical structure...

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BELCHERTOWN — After almost a year without a new contract for workers, Belchertown teachers and their school district have agreed to tentative terms, though custodial, secretarial, food service and paraprofessional bargaining units continue to...

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A new public-private initiative could see drug education programs instituted at many of the state’s middle schools by next academic year.The program, dubbed “Project Here,” is a $2 million addiction-prevention and education initiative that state...

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AMHERST — The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment have recognized a Hampshire College building as one of this year’s greenest structures.As part of the institute’s yearly “Top Ten Awards,” the AIA has recognized...

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Several local colleges have been included on a list of schools “doing the most for the American dream.”In The New York Times’ third annual College Access Index measuring colleges’ commitment to economic diversity, Amherst College was ranked No. 7 —...

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EASTHAMPTON — The state attorney general’s office has launched an investigation after months of racial tensions at Easthampton High School.During an update on race-related incidents and the school district’s response, Superintendent Nancy Follansbee...