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By EMILEE KLEIN
AMHERST — Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant and Bar closed on Thursday amid a rumor that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had raided and detained five employees the previous evening.
By EMILEE KLEIN
BELCHERTOWN — The School Committee is pushing back against a potential $2.1 million cut to its proposed $36 million level-services school budget that would result in the loss of more than 20 positions, a blow to the schools after the committee’s proposed budgets have been cut $4 million in the past five years.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — The South Hadley Police Department has launched a new program that employs radio tracking technology to quickly locate and save residents who are prone to wandering off.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley’s interim superintendent is warning that the slew of new executive orders and funding alterations coming from the Trump administration could destabilize the district’s budget next fiscal year if federal education and health care costs are cut.
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY — The Select Board has offered Michael Durham the position as Granby’s new town administrator after its first choice, Shelley Poreda, turned the job down.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SPRINGFIELD — Most Massachusetts farmworkers whose hard work puts food on the dinner tables for Massachusetts families have difficulty affording the produce they pick and process.
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — The “Doomsday Clock” is moving forward.
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — Nothing could knock down Claudia Quintero on the day she received her green card and work permit at 17 years old — she was too elated to notice anything else.
By EMILEE KLEIN
A $12.6 million grant will build out broadband internet for almost 100 underserviced communities across the state, including customers in nine Hampshire and Franklin cities and towns.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — It took a leap of faith for Mount Holyoke student Diamond Abiakalam-Chinagorom to commit to a historically women’s college in bucolic Massachusetts an ocean away from her home in bustling Lagos, Nigeria.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — A preliminary report on shared services between Fire District 1 and Fire District 2 outline several possibilities for collaboration on purchasing new equipment and standardizing technological systems between the two governing bodies.
By EMILEE KLEIN
AMHERST — The first two cases of bird flu on the University of Massachusetts campus were discovered over the weekend when two deceased Canadian geese tested positive for disease, the university announced.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — Residents worried about drivers speeding through their neighborhoods now have a new way to request traffic calming measures from the town.
By EMILEE KLEIN
BELCHERTOWN — A new project called Branding Belchertown aims to overhaul the visual identity of the commuter community in hopes of distinguishing Belchertown as a destination for tourism and business.
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY/SOUTH HADLEY — Police are warning residents to keep their cars locked after three unlocked vehicles were stolen on Saturday night in neighborhoods off Route 116 that runs through Granby and South Hadley.
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY/SOUTH HADLEY — Whenever 16-year-old Thomas DeWitt passed through West Street Cemetery in Granby, he noticed gravestones sunk or slumped over, each murky with grime, among fallen limbs and a decrepit shed.
By EMILEE KLEIN
AMHERST — In the wake of the chaotic approach and results of the United States’ last election, distinguished Amherst College professor Austin Sarat dares to ask whether American democracy is doomed.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — The public is invited to weigh in on the first draft of preliminary zoning recommendations for the Route 202/33 corridor at the fourth public forum on Thursday night.
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — Small Victories, a retail shop that has taken root downtown, began in the same way the business’s seed paper stationary does: start with dirt, add water and soon something will sprout.
By EMILEE KLEIN
BELCHERTOWN — Three artists will transform the Belchertown Transfer Station’s brown recycling containers into works of art that incorporate opinions from residents in the design and execution of the murals.A collaboration between the Creative Economy...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SPRINGFIELD — While the country celebrated the New Year with fireworks, champagne and sparklers, one Granby family started 2025 with an even greater milestone: a new addition to their growing family.Isla Veronica McCarthy, Hampshire County’s first...
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