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Two of our region’s most beloved businesses — Dave’s Soda and Pet City and Hadley Garden Center — have collapsed in eerily similar ways. Both were acquired by outside buyers who made warm promises: to keep the businesses running, protect employees, and honor their local legacies. And in both cases, those promises quietly unraveled. Now, Hadley is left with the prospect of shuttered storefronts, lost jobs, and heartbroken local founders and staff.

By Staff Report

HADLEY — A Chesterfield man who allegedly injured another man with tree loppers during an altercation on Honey Pot Road was arrested Monday morning, according to police.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — As part of the town’s rebranding and marketing efforts, engineer consultant Stantec has identified around 80 signs to install around town for its wayfinding project designed to help residents and tourists navigate Hampshire County’s largest town in terms of landmass.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Formal and casual photographs of students, faculty and staff at Hopkins Academy, write-ups about academics, athletics and other extracurricular happenings and insights into school life and community traditions are included in yearbooks printed annually for more than 100 years.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Delays in getting reimbursements for MassHealth Dental patients remain a challenge for Hampshire Meadow Family & Pediatric Dentistry, more than two months after the practice considered suspending accepting appointments over concerns with the state’s new third-party vendor.

There are limits to what any of us can do to help any others of us. In Plato’s “Theaetetus,” Socrates says “I am like the midwife, in that I cannot myself give birth to wisdom”; and he then says, “The many admirable truths which they bring to birth have been discovered by themselves from within.” Our law schools are supposed to base their pedagogy on the Socratic method, whose applicability to real life situations might not always appear very great. That people cannot always argue their way to the establishment of abiding truths may be seen with the great eloquence of speechifying in Congress in the years leading up to our Civil War.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Massachusetts State Police apprehended a South Hadley man on Monday night after he fled from police in a vehicle and crashed into another vehicle on the Joseph E. Muller Bridge.

By DOMENIC POLI

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.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Despite recent repairs on Moody Bridge Road, including installation of a new culvert pipe, members of the Select Board say they are not inclined to support a full, end-to-end, reopening of the street.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — As part of an initiative to improve mental health and quality of life for police officers, South Hadley Police Department offers a “wellness room” for officers to decompress from the stresses of law enforcement and crisis response.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A hotel that has been a fixture of Route 9 for almost 60 years is being converted into extended-stay lodging under new ownership.

By ERIKA HEYER-WATTS

In case you missed it, this year is the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster, Jaws. Jaws is one of my favorite movies and I have seen it at least 30 times over the last 30 years or so. But I’ve never seen Jaws on the big screen until this year. The music was louder, Bruce was bigger and the theater was packed. I usually watch Jaws with family or a small group of friends, so watching it with a large group of strangers made the viewing experience new to me. We all laughed at the fisherman on the dock when he said “A what?” after Hooper explains the shark they caught is, indeed, a tiger shark. We all lifted our Narragansett cans and crushed them in unison with Quint. And we all jumped when Ben Gardner’s head popped out of his sunken vessel even though we all knew it was coming.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Boaters on the Connecticut River between the Coolidge Bridge and the Holyoke Dam have for decades depended on channel markers and buoys as navigational aids while traveling along the waterway, protecting them from dangers, like rocks lurking below the surface, as well as alerting them to no-wake areas where they must move at slower speeds.

By GARRETT COTE

HOLYOKE — It’s impossible to ignore the presence of young fans attending Valley Blue Sox games throughout the summer. There are a handful of kids bouncing around from the concession stands to the patch of grass behind home plate to play catch, to the bleachers where their laser-focused glares fix in on the high-quality baseball being played at beautiful MacKenzie Stadium.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Since July 2015, the Rev. James Nolte has led the St. Patrick’s parish as a “gentle giant,” according to Deacon David Bergeron.

By LUKAS DUNFORD

HADLEY — The Gardener’s Supply store along Route 9, originally called Hadley Garden Supply, will continue to operate for the foreseeable future, despite the Burlington, Vermont-based company filing for bankruptcy last week.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — In an effort to slow down cars speeding along thickly settled residential roads, South Hadley joins other Hampshire County cities and towns in lowering the statutory speed limit on roads from 30 mph to 25 mph.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

SPRINGFIELD — A federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to reconsider pretrial detention for a Hadley man who allegedly sold plutonium and possessed numerous other explosive and hazardous materials in his home before being indicted two months ago.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A May 2 vote by trustees for the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School to add two new members is being temporarily nullified by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

By CLAIRE MORENON

The Barstow family has been producing milk in Hadley since the 1920s – and after nearly 90 years, they knew they had to make some changes if they wanted to stay in the dairy business.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — All homes, businesses and farms using municipal water will be paying significantly higher rates after the Select Board this week agreed to adjustments aimed at generating enough money to cover the cost of water department operations and to build up reserves.