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By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — Runs were at a premium through five innings between the Hampshire and Frontier softball teams on Friday afternoon, as star pitchers Ryanne Dubay (Raiders) and Raine Wonsey (Redhawks) dueled it out in the circle. Heading into the bottom of the sixth with the game tied at one apiece, Hampshire head coach Brian McGan turned to small ball – the exact way his team scored its first run.

By CAROLYN BROWN

At a time in which elected officials have tried to lessen or erase certain undesirable periods from America’s history, the play “A Light Under the Dome” aims to shed light on the abolition struggle through the lens of one historic speech in Massachusetts.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Chris Haynes, longtime accordionist for the Young@Heart Chorus and associate professor emeritus of music at Springfield College, died on Wednesday, March 12.

By JACOB NELSON

Spring is here, and with it are signs of new life on farms around the Valley. Leaves are beginning to bud on fruit trees, farmers are preparing soil for the coming growing season, and at Little Brook Farm in Sunderland, day-old baby lambs are bounding around the lambing barn.

By Staff Report

SOUTH HADLEY — Gov. Maura Healey will give the commencement speech to Mount Holyoke College’s Class of 2025 at the 188th graduation ceremonies in May.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

BOSTON — The state Department of Environmental Protection is fining Falls Farm, which has property in Montague and Sunderland, for violating the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and Massachusetts Clean Water Act.

By EMILEE KLEIN

HADLEY — U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employee Jackie Stephens starts her day at the Cronin Aquatic Resource Center in Sunderland by checking her email to see if she’s been fired.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley and Ludlow are organizing municipal and school leaders, students and community members from at least eight communities to attend a hearing Monday at UMass to persuade the state Legislature’s House and Ways Means Committee to support altering the state’s municipal education funding formula.

By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The more than 700 people who attended a town hall event with U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern on Tuesday relayed an expansive mandate for him to take back to Congress: Defend federal institutions, create a stronger coalition of Democrats and be a voice of resistance to the Trump administration.

On Tuesday, March 18, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern will host a town hall at the Greenfield Middle School, 195 Federal Street, Greenfield. This event, sponsored by Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution (FCCPR), is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m.

By CHRIS LARABEE

Budget season rolls on at the Frontier Regional and Union 38 school districts, with Sunderland, Deerfield and Conway elementary schools recently sharing their fiscal year 2026 budget proposals.

By ALEXA LEWIS

SOUTHAMPTON — Nomination papers are now available in the Town Clerk’s office to those interested in serving in an elected position in town. The deadline for returning a nomination is March 31 by 5 p.m.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — When preparing the fiscal year 2026 revenue sheets, town officials discovered an omission on residents’ tax bills.

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — Paul Dubuc met with his senior captains – Ava Asselin, Caitlin Dean, CC Gurek and Maddie Soderbaum – prior to the start of the season back in late November. The South Hadley girls basketball head coach and his Tigers were coming off the program’s first-ever state championship appearance, where they lost to Cathedral in the Division 4 title game.

By CHRIS LARABEE

If you take a look at the spreadsheets on Mason Smith and Tyler Wolkowicz’s computer screens, you might think they’re undertaking an extensive math project.

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

Nan Bernstein lives in Tyringham, a town in the Berkshires, 29 miles west of the Gazette offices as the crow flies. She grew up in York, Pennsylvania, in the 1950s and ‘60s. Her grandfather was a tailor and her father owned and operated a small clothing factory.

By RYAN AMES

The postseason is here for the No. 14 UMass hockey team.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley will expand its urban canopy over the next two years through the Environmental Justice Tree Planting Program, an initiative that calls for planting 400 trees to replace old trees and boost the town’s climate resilience.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — A dozen residents from the Plain Road East and Mill Village Road neighborhood are expressing concerns about the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Regional Dog Shelter’s proposed building.

By RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY – The South Hadley girls basketball team used lengthy runs in the second and third quarters to power past Carver, 55-34, during its quarterfinal victory in the MIAA Division 4 state tournament on Friday.