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By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Massachussetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has named South Hadley High School one of the 2024 Schools of Recognition for their improvements in attendance and academic performance over the past three years....

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

SOUTH HADLEY — Sabrina Bardwell was dead set on field hockey.It was the beginning of the school year in the early 1990s, and the seventh grader was choosing her fall sport. But her mother, Betsy Riley, had just started a one-week volleyball program at...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — As the town awaits an invitation from the Massachusetts School Building Authority into the next phase of its school construction grant program, the state agency is estimating that future enrollment at a potential new Mosier Elementary...

By MIKE WALSH

The Tigers came into Friday night with a game plan, and it was a good one.This iteration of the Pittsfield Generals, though, can shred game plans as quickly as junior Freddy Conyers shreds opposing special teams.South Hadley sent the opening kickoff...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The large tower atop Mount Holyoke College’s Clapp Laboratory is named after the people whose fundraising efforts paid for a majority of the building a century ago — the students.The “blue lions” of a century ago raised thousands of...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — While lounging under a tree at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School, middle school student Addison Gosselin felt the tickle of a critter crawling on her leg.Gosselin ushered the little bug onto her hand, and immediately...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Luka Azeuedo, who is just under 2 years old, squirms in the arms Alphabet Soup Childcare Center emplyee Casey Rougeau while she positions him to look into a small black machine playing bird sounds and flashing blue, green and red dots.“Can...

In aiming to do whatever any of us can to help the world we inhabit together, maintaining suppleness of heart and mind could be a benefit. As with keeping the body limber, this might seem effortless among the young and be of increasing difficulty as...

By MIKE MORAN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Chicopee Comp football team simply wore down South Hadley.The Tigers held the bigger and deeper Colts in check, but the loss of players in the second half and a persistent Comp rushing attack late pushed the Colts to a 22-8 victory,...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — During a short appearance at Tuesday’s Select Board meeting, state Rep. Dan Carey gave his farewell as South Hadley’s representative with a short recount of his work this session tackling Chapter 90 and Chapter 70 funding, as well as...

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — When the South Hadley girls soccer team dropped its third game of the season, 1-0, a physical, chippy match with Hampshire Regional back on Sept. 6, the Tigers couldn’t wait to meet up with the Raiders again — this time on their home...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Residents have until Nov. 15 to opt out of the town’s new trash and recycling program — which includes access to the recycling center and transfer station for yard waste — set to begin on July 1, 2025. That’s when the town officially...

NORTHAMPTON — A Westfield man is being arraigned on manslaughter charges in Hampshire Superior Court for his role in the May death of a South Hadley woman, selling her a drug he claimed was oxycodone, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s...

When I was 10, I went with my grandmother to visit my great aunt in Silver Springs, Maryland. Her husband, my Uncle Joe, was a Marine who served during World War II and had seen some of the toughest fighting in the Pacific.He took us the visit the...

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — It seemed as if the only team that was going to beat South Hadley on Friday night was itself.The Tigers coughed up five, that’s right, five, turnovers — four fumbles and an interception — to a pesky Greenfield defense, each one...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY— Stewart Street is a quite, family-friendly neighborhood not far from Buttery Brook Park where residents watch their children play soccer in the street from the comfort of a home their grandparents built.It’s this slice of Americana that...

I am writing to alert the citizens of South Hadley, including all Town Meeting members, of a very important meeting of the Planning Board on Monday, Sept. 23, at 6:30 p.m. This virtual meeting is a continuation of a public hearing on proposed...

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — Rich Marjanski had high praise for his defense following the South Hadley girls soccer team’s 1-0 win over Chicopee Comp on Tuesday afternoon.Now in his eighth season as head coach of the Tigers, a tenure in which his teams have won a...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Organizers of the town’s first Showcase South Hadley event last fall say plans are in the works to bring the event back next April, after which they will decide which season is the best time to host the festival of local arts, history...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A chair of honor representing eight South Hadley veterans who went missing in action during World War II will permanently sit at South Hadley Sports Stadium Complex at the high school, with a Prisoners of War Missing in Action flag...