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By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Residents will not be asked to consider a new Department of Public Works headquarters at annual Town Meeting next week, with the warrant article associated with the $18.7 million project to be delayed.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Molly McGovern, the daughter of U.S. Rep. James McGovern and Lisa McGovern and sister to Patrick McGovern, died unexpectedly in Italy while visiting a good friend and his family, according to a statement the congressman’s family issued Thursday morning.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — With municipal elections still six months away, the winds of change are blowing through the Northampton School Committee.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — After five years of little to no progress redeveloping the former Bardwell Library property into condominiums, the Select Board decided to investigate legal options against the developer for breach of contract.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — A steep increase in what Leverett will pay into the Amherst-Pelham Regional Schools’ fiscal year 2026 budget is being supported by the Select Board, even with concerns from board members about the process used to arrive at the town’s assessment.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — More than 100 residents at Applewood Retirement Community made their voices heard on the Saturday morning before Easter, appealing to preserve democracy and fight against actions by the Trump administration during a “No King” protest.

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — As the weather warms up and the outdoors become lush with greenery again, Cyrus Copen is looking forward to tidying up overgrown spaces.

SUNDERLAND — The Zoning Board of Appeals will continue the public hearing on a proposed 9,100-square-foot retail building that is expected to house a Dollar General at the corner of Route 116 and Clark Mountain Road on Wednesday, May 28.

By SUSAN WOZNIAK

We find throughout history that there have been rulers we laugh at and rulers we respect. There are some who surprise us with their diligence and others who disappoint us because they tackle little and create less.

By JOHN SINTON

How to make sense of America’s turbulent times? In my role as historian, I tried on period costumes: togas for the death of the Roman Republic, tri-colored cockades for the French Revolution, grey military caps for the Insurrection of the Confederacy, jackboots for Hitler’s Nazi Putsch. Then, I remembered my graduate school training in Russian history and Vladimir Lenin’s grotesquely unreadable but deeply influential treatise entitled “State and Revolution.” 

I am writing to alert the citizens of South Hadley to the continuation of the public hearing on the proposed Energy Center of Mount Holyoke College, at the corner of Dunlap Place and Woodbridge Street. This hearing will be before the Planning Board on Monday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Senior Center and virtually.

I feel I have to react to the April 21 front-page Gazette article with the headline ”Opposition to apartments mounts,” about people trying to stop or downsize the proposed 54-unit apartment complex at the corner of Phillips Place and Hawley Street in Northampton.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Returning from visiting two students being held in separate detention facilities in Louisiana, U.S. Rep. James McGovern said what he saw firsthand is individuals who are being imprisoned because of their political views.

By KEVIN HODGSON and LESLIE SKANTZ-HODGSON

All politics is local, so goes the adage, often attributed to Massachusetts’ own, “Tip” O’Neill.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — The number of antisemitic incidents reported in Massachusetts was essentially unchanged in 2024, though officials with the Anti-Defamation League said the total is “part of a troubling long-term trend” of heightened harassment, vandalism and assault.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — People for Ethical Treatment of Animals will receive all videos, photos and other documentation associated with experiments involving marmoset monkeys in a University of Massachusetts laboratory, according to a settlement agreement announced Tuesday.

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — Sparked by resident worries that an American flag that has flown over Nashawannuck Pond for nearly 25 years between Memorial Day and Veterans Day may have come down for good, a City Council subcommittee began the process Tuesday night of drafting regulations that they hope would bring the flag back.

By CARRIE N. BAKER

After World War II, German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller famously said, “First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak out for me.” We are watching this happen in real time with the Trump administration.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council is once again asking the state Legislature for permission to prohibit landlords and real estate brokers from charging prospective tenants a broker’s fee to rent property in the city.