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SOUTH HADLEY – The Select Board will be hosting a coffee hour Wednesday morning.The “In The Community” event will be hosted at McCray's Farm & Creamery from 8 to 9 a.m.Residents are encouraged “to stop by, grab a cup of coffee (or an ice cream – we...

By EMILY CUTTS

SOUTH HADLEY — Berkshire Hills Music Academy hosts 140 music lessons a week. That’s 28 a day, all done in four hours. That’s a lot for five practice rooms.With the ribbon-cutting of the new Bernon Music Center on the school’s campus Thursday...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SPRINGFIELD — Mount Greylock pitcher Cole Wojtkowski befuddled the South Hadley baseball team the first time through the lineup.Once the top-seeded Tigers saw how he pitched, they adjusted.The No. 5 Mounties built a double-digit lead while South...

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Sophie Gatzounas led the South Hadley girls track & field team to a strong showing at the Western Massachusetts Heptathlon, Wednesday at Hampshire Regional in Westhampton.Gatzounas won the event with 3,522 points. Lindsay Marjanski was third with...

By CRAIG RILEY

SOUTH HADLEY — An early power surge and a strong starting pitching performance paved the way to a 9-3 victory for top-seeded South Hadley over No. 8 Greenfield Monday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the Western Massachusetts Division 3 Baseball...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — Artists of many kinds graduating from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts charter school took a final bow as a student body on Thursday.From violin trios to knockout vocals, the 60 students graduating from the South Hadley high school...

By MIKE MORAN

The South Hadley and Belchertown girls tennis teams are on a collision course again.The two schools met in the finals of the 2016 Western Massachusetts Division 3 Tournament. Belchertown, then the No. 1 seed, beat the third-seeded Tigers, 3-2.They...

By ELLIOT WELD

GREENFIELD — For a second straight year, the South Hadley baseball team was awarded the No. 1 seed in the Western Massachusetts Division 3 Tournament.Tigers coach Matt Foley said the end of the season was hard on his team, but he was satisfied with...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTH HADLEY — Change is the new mantra at the South Hadley & Granby Chamber of Commerce, an organization keen on promoting businesses in the neighboring towns along the Route 202 corridor.Two months into her position as executive director, Mariann...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley’s Sophie Gatzounas and Amherst Regional’s Meikkel Murray started their track and field careers with trial and error. With some nudging from their track coaches, both senior 1,000-point basketball scorers joined their...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A former South Hadley funeral director who admitted to embezzling more than $400,000 in prepaid funeral arrangements must pay nearly $500,000 in restitution.William W. Ryder, 55, has been ordered to pay $471,446 in consumer restitution,...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON – There will be no third trial for a former South Hadley man accused of child rape, prosecutors have decided.Two juries, including one in April, could not come to a unanimous decision in the case of Guy Bush Jr., 47, of Grand Island, New...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTH HADLEY — Trustees for the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School on Friday agreed to hire a law firm to investigate grievances filed against head of school Scott Goldman.The board also unanimously voted to keep Goldman on paid...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTH HADLEY — Retail stores can no longer supply single-use plastic bags to customer under a new measure passed by voters at Wednesday’s annual Town Meeting.In other decisions, voters agreed to move municipal elections from April to September, put a...

By JACK SUNTRUP

SOUTH HADLEY — Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School trustees voted Tuesday to place Head of School Scott Goldman on paid administrative leave after staff leveled three grievances and two petitions against him.Now, a select panel from...

By JACK SUNTRUP

HOLYOKE — The Connecticut River powered over the Holyoke Dam Sunday under an overcast sky, and hundreds of people stopped to see it.From Route 116’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, that view is not a new one. But for the first time ever, MassDOT on...

By MATT VAUTOUR

Nehemiah Wilson pointed at Ryan Mooney as he walked off the mound. The two will forever share a unique piece of South Hadley baseball history.Two days after Mooney threw a no-hitter against Belchertown, Wilson matched the feat in the Tigers’ 11-0 win...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A jury in a child rape trial will resume deliberations Monday after twice telling a Hampshire Superior Court judge Thursday they could not reach a consensus.The 12-member jury spent the entire day in deliberations on the case of a former...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTH HADLEY — A 67-year-old South Hadley man whose sister said had an adventurous streak died unexpectedly in India this week while trekking a popular trail in India. “He enjoyed life to the fullest,” said June Greener by phone from her home in...

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The South Hadley boys track and field team received a pair of wins from three athletes en route to a 74-61 win over Sci-Tech, Wednesday at home.Evan Petrosky threw the shot put 34 feet, 6¼ inches and the discus 82-9 to win both events.Sean O’Grady won...