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By GARRETT COTE
SOUTH HADLEY — Paul Dubuc met with his senior captains – Ava Asselin, Caitlin Dean, CC Gurek and Maddie Soderbaum – prior to the start of the season back in late November. The South Hadley girls basketball head coach and his Tigers were coming off the program’s first-ever state championship appearance, where they lost to Cathedral in the Division 4 title game.
By RYAN AMES
The South Hadley girls basketball team will see a familiar foe in the MIAA Division 4 state championship on Sunday at the Tsongas Center in Lowell.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — As a former Girl Scout, Celia Overby hoped her 6-year-old daughter would find a sense of self, responsibility and community with a local troop just as she did during her childhood, but no troop in the area was accepting new scouts her daughter’s age.
By GARRETT COTE
WORCESTER — After making the MIAA Division 4 state final and graduating only one senior from last season’s team, the town of South Hadley, all of western Mass. and competition across the state expected the South Hadley girls basketball team to end up in that same exact spot come March 2025.
While I appreciate Gazette columnist J.M. Sorrell’s honest look into her own roots, as well as her commitment to fighting antisemitism, her column “Jewish neshamah” [March 5] essentially endorses the idea that any criticism of Israel is tantamount to hatred of Jews.
By RYAN AMES
The Final Four is set in the MIAA girls basketball Division 4 state tournament, and No. 3 South Hadley will square off with No. 2 Millis in the semifinals on Wednesday at Worcester State University.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley will expand its urban canopy over the next two years through the Environmental Justice Tree Planting Program, an initiative that calls for planting 400 trees to replace old trees and boost the town’s climate resilience.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
SOUTH HADLEY — Despite Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School administrators finding no wrongdoing by a middle school teacher, following a six-week investigation into sexual misconduct allegations that led to his removal from the classroom last fall, students concerned about his continued presence on campus staged a walkout demanding his termination Monday morning.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — A $2.5 million loan being sought by the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School should provide the funding to create 14 classrooms inside a second campus building at 300 Venture Way, allowing an expansion of enrollment and possibly new initiatives as student applications to the school surge.
By RYAN AMES
SOUTH HADLEY – The South Hadley girls basketball team used lengthy runs in the second and third quarters to power past Carver, 55-34, during its quarterfinal victory in the MIAA Division 4 state tournament on Friday.
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — Danielle Kelly has offered supplemental reading instruction for almost 500 South Hadley students since starting at the district in 2006, preventing 95% of students from needing special education reading supports and boosting literacy rates.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — A proposed $23.31 million fiscal year 2026 operating budget will maintain existing staffing and services at the public schools and in municipal departments, while supporting the continued transition to a town-operated Advanced Life Support ambulance.
By ALEXA LEWIS
Paul Zononi was shocked to find that when he started tapping trees for the 2025 sugaring season at Paul’s Sugar House in Williamsburg, the sap came at a trickle — and with only half of its typical sugar content.
By EMILEE KLEIN
GRANBY — Veteran Michael Slater left the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday night feeling like he witnessed the taping of an episode of “The Jerry Springer Show” — a long-running tabloid talk show known for its sensationalistic topics — rather than a presidential address.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — J. Crew Factory, a national clothing retailer, will be coming to Mountain Farms Mall later this year.
By GARRETT COTE
SOUTH HADLEY — Paul Dubuc thought he wrote Cara Dean’s name down on the board as part of the list of starters for the third quarter on Tuesday night. Dean, a sophomore, is a regular in the South Hadley girls basketball team’s starting lineup. Dubuc turned to his bench and asked, “where’s Cara,” after the first possession of the second half. She was sitting down waiting patiently to get subbed back in.
By RYAN AMES
SOUTH HADLEY — Fans in South Hadley Friday night were treated to an all-time classic.
By LISA GOODRICH
For local farmers, winter is a time for planning the next growing season, catching up on small business tasks, and maintaining structures and equipment. For the local community, winter is the time to lock in prices on produce for the growing season by signing up for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — PiNZ, a business featuring an eight-lane bowling alley, more than 40 arcade games and a restaurant and bar with seating for about 150 people, has closed at Hampshire Mall, 367 Russell St.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School’s enrollment can increase by 100 students after the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Tuesday narrowly supported acting Commissioner Russell D. Johnston’s recommendation allowing the K-12 school to have up to 684 students.
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY — A Worcester company denied permission to place a standalone battery in a Breckenridge Road gravel pit is suing the town’s Planning Board, contending its Jan. 7 decision is legally untenable and “unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious.”
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