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By RYAN AMES

Three seniors will lead the Belchertown wrestling team into this weekend’s MIAA Division 3 Western Massachusetts Sectional Championships, as the Orioles’ first season back as a varsity program in nearly a decade nears a close.

By RYAN AMES

Only one game on the docket this week for the No. 18 UMass hockey team, but it's a big one as it'll wrap up a three-game season-series with UConn on Friday in Storrs.

By RYAN AMES

The high school swimming season is underway and a handful of local programs are back in action. Below is some more information on each of the four area swim teams for the 2024-25 campaign:NorthamptonThe Blue Devils girls team brings back a pair of...

By STEVE PFARRER

During my last several years as the Gazette’s arts and features writer, I compiled a list of my favorite books of the year each December, given that newspapers all do that best-of-the-year thing and I thought it would be fun to get on board...

By RYAN AMES

After nearly a decade-long absence, wrestling is back at Belchertown High School.The 2024-25 season marks the first time the Orioles have had a wrestling program since 2016. First-year athletic director and head wrestling coach Kevin McNeill led the...

By RYAN AMES

Optimism is swirling around the Amherst Regional boys hockey team in the early parts of the 2024-25 season.The Hurricanes lost eight seniors to graduation and fell in its first game of the season to Greenfield on Tuesday, 7-1, but head coach Mike...

By STEVE PFARRER

War has been a regular horror in Lebanon for nearly half a century, flaring most recently this fall with Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon in attacks against the Iranian-backed paramilitary group Hezbollah, a spillover in turn from the brutal,...

By GARRETT COTE

EASTHAMPTON — The scoreboard operator has a busy job at Williston Northampton School when the football team takes the field on Saturdays.For the past two seasons, the Wildcats have led the Northeast Prep League in points, and with a host of talented...

By BOB FLAHERTY

Outgoing executive editor Jim Hicks of the Massachusetts Review has yet to warm up to his new surroundings.400 Venture Way looks like one of those ultra-tech monoliths that have “Solutions” as part of its name. Surrounded by a sea of blacktop and...

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — The first-ever Dwight Day on Saturday will celebrate the historic village in northern Belchertown with several history talks, a historical reenactment, and a cemetery tour intended to revive the glory and legacy of those who lived in the...

By STEVE PFARRER

Among a number of very good lines in “Ezra,” a film about the challenge of raising an autistic child, there’s one that really encapsulates the problems parents and caretakers can face.Bobby Cannavale plays Max Bernal, a struggling comedian with his...

By STEVE PFARRER

Cecilia: A Memoir of Lesbian Love and LossBy Astrid LindstromHeliotrope Press Astrid Lindstrom’s memoir, “Cecilia,” about the loss of her wife following a difficult battle with cancer, is at times a painful read. But it’s also a memorial to her late...

By GARRETT COTE

Less than a year removed from a Western Mass. Class C championship, the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School boys tennis team is gearing up for yet another deep postseason run this spring.The Dragons defeated Lee 4-1 in the title match last...

By STEVE PFARRER

I Could Have Been More WrongBy Kevin McCaffreyFour Winds Press Kevin McCaffrey brings something to his poetry that other poets might consider employing more often: a sense of humor.In “I Could Have Been More Wrong,” McCaffrey, a South Hadley resident,...

By STEVE PFARRER

Hannah Arendt famously coined the term “the banality of evil” in her book on Adolph Eichmann’s trial in Israel in 1963, where the former Nazi official, a key organizer of the Holocaust, presented himself as a bureaucrat who was “just doing his job” in...

By STEVE PFARRER

Though it had only an initial limited theatrical release, and did not appear until December, “American Fiction” has already popped up on a number of critics’ “best films of 2023” lists, and the movie has been nominated for a slew of awards.The buzz is...

By STEVE PFARRER

KindlingBy Kathleen JenningsSmall Beer Press Kathleen Jennings had already made a name for herself as a talented illustrator of fantasy books when she began writing her own stories some years back — and it turns out she can spin some magical tales of...