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NORTHAMPTON — A 44-year-old man who allegedly traveled cross-country from his Arizona home while sending his ex-girlfriend in Northampton violent video and text message threats is in the Hampshire County jail awaiting arraignment.Anthony Hayden Jr.,...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — City councilors and school committee members heard a sobering budget presentation Tuesday by Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra warning of the necessity of Proposition 2½ overrides to cover ballooning school spending.Using dozens of charts to...

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NORTHAMPTON — Fresh off his attempt to set the world record for distance traveled in a pumpkin boat, Dave Rothstein is celebrating a different kind of world championship — in snow sculpting.The Florence resident and his four-man team — Team Mexico —...

By JAMES PENTLAND

CHESTERFIELD — The Mount Cemetery is set for an expansion after voters at Thursday’s special Town Meeting approved a donation of more than an acre of land on the uphill side of the cemetery.Town Administrator Brenda Lessard said only two of the 51...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Local leaders are reacting favorably to legislation filed this week by Gov. Maura Healey that would give municipalities the authority to increase local option taxes on meals, lodging and motor vehicles.The state’s Democratic legislative...

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SPRINGFIELD — A former superintendent of schools in Chicopee pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday to charges of lying to FBI agents who were investigating threats sent via text to a candidate for the city’s police chief.Lynn Clark, who was a...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — After 29 years as chief administrator of Hampshire Superior Court, Harry J. Jekanowski Jr. has announced that he will not seek reelection this year.Jekanowski was originally appointed clerk magistrate by the Supreme Judicial Court in...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A Holyoke man authorities say was driving through Northampton in an unregistered, uninsured car with a loaded Glock 19 firearm, 330 bags of heroin and his 5-year-old son was released on $5,000 following a bail hearing Thursday in...

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NORTHAMPTON — An Amherst man was sentenced Thursday to six to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to rape of a child and five other charges.Kemal Banatte, 44, will serve five years on probation after he...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A long-running case against two men accused of conspiring to defraud the University of Massachusetts through an environmental remediation company in which they both had an interest ended Wednesday with the men admitting to sufficient...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A Ware man will remain incarcerated following arraignment in Hampshire Superior Court on charges stemming from a murderous assault on the mother of his child outside the Northampton police station in October.Judge Edward McDonough agreed...

By JAMES PENTLAND

HATFIELD — Working from a foundation laid down by the business it bought at 4 Linseed Road last year, Harrison Diesel Solutions is building a name for itself in the field of heavy equipment maintenance.Husband and wife Drew and Ashley Harrison began...

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NORTHAMPTON — A flyer since her teens, Fly Lugu flight school founder Fredrika Ballard was remembered this week as a consummate professional who worked hard to support opportunities for women in aviation.Ballard, 53, of Southwick, was killed Sunday...

By JAMES PENTLAND

BELCHERTOWN — State utility regulators have given a green light to municipal aggregation in Belchertown, allowing residents and businesses to act as a bulk buyer of electricity supply.Aggregation typically helps to keep electricity rates down and can...

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WILLIAMSBURG — Firefighters from six departments responded to a blaze that caused extensive damage to a Chesterfield Road home on Tuesday afternoon. Fire Chief Jason Connell said the residents were home at the time and called around 12:45 p.m. to...

By JAMES PENTLAND

HOLYOKE — A developer of low-carbon cement has firmed up plans to build its first commercial manufacturing plant in Holyoke, bringing 70 new jobs to the city.Sublime Systems, a Somerville start-up company producing what it calls “the only...

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SPRINGFIELD — A Belchertown man who stole more than $114,000 in disability benefits over 16 years was sentenced last week in federal court to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release.Kenneth Pontz, 59, was previously convicted in...

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NORTHAMPTON — A Hadley woman charged with animal cruelty in 2022 after nine cows and 22 goats were seized from the Amherst farm where she was keeping them will spend five years on probation after pleading guilty Friday to three counts in the 35-count...

By JAMES PENTLAND

HATFIELD — Town Meeting voters decided Tuesday to expand the town’s Recreation Commission from three members to five, but rejected a similar proposal for the Select Board, which will continue with three members.In a little over two hours at the Smith...