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By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

EASTHAMPTON — A 28-year-old resident who moved to the city a decade ago wants to be a city councilor.Thomas Peake pulled nomination papers Thursday to run for the Precinct 3 position being vacated by longtime councilor Joy E. Winnie, who is leaving...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Baystate Franklin nurses head back to the bargaining table Friday, the first time since before a strike and lockout that Baystate Health announced Thursday cost the organization about $1 million.Nearly a month since the nurses went to...

By MATT VAUTOUR

A year ago Andrew Ford was just competing for a chance to play. Now he’s competing for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm award, which announced its preseason watch list Wednesday.The gilded honor goes to the nation’s top senior quarterback for...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s provost and senior vice chancellor is stepping down from her position to transition to the role of senior vice president for academic affairs, student affairs and international relations in the...

By Rebecca Mullen

AMHERST — Every summer since she was 7, Karen Song has taken a bus from her home in New York City up to Massachusetts, where she spends a week or two swimming, playing capture the flag and enjoying the comforts of a suburban summer with the Lagrant...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — The city’s Human Rights Commission sees need for a civility pledge in the city, and as of Thursday the City Council agrees.Commissioners told councilors they proposed the measure in light of an increase in denigrating and hateful...

By FRAN RYAN

HUNTINGTON — A 136-year-old church will be sold at auction later this month in a first for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield.The diocese, which covers Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties, plans to place St. Thomas Catholic...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — A University of Massachusetts Amherst geosciences assistant professor has won one of the field’s most prestigious awards for those early in their career.The American Geophysical Union’s Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group...

By JACK SUNTRUP

ABOARD THE THUNDERBUSTER — “Pull the lever and gooooo!” a farmer shouted at Paul Sena, a burly 63-year-old with shoulder-length gray hair who has been flying hot air balloons since 1991.The farmer was brush-hogging goldenrod on his plot in Hatfield on...

NORTHAMPTON — Two projects on I-91 will mean occasional delays for Hampshire County drivers through 2018, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.Resurfacing and related work between Deerfield and Northampton started last month and...

Last week’ s vandalism of the bronze owl sculpture on Main Street in Northampton struck a deep nerve in a community that values public art in many forms. The attack left an emotional scar as well as physical damage to a memorial for Eva Trager and...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Here’s a prime example of how to turn a marketing class project into a job.This spring, Sierra Myers, a Northampton native, created a new Instagram account for Thornes Marketplace as part of a group project for a Greenfield Community...

Amherst and Sunderland have made commendable commitments to improve recreational opportunities in those communities.A partnership between a neighborhood group and the town resulted in reviving Markert’s Pond, which is part of the 5-acre Pondview...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

BELCHERTOWN — Voters shot down a measure Monday that would have withdrawn Belchertown from the Hampshire Council of Governments.By a 134-69 vote at a special Town Meeting, voters decided to stay part of the quasi-governmental agency.Some officials,...

By FRAN RYAN

WILLIAMSBURG — Staff and faculty at the Anne T. Dunphy School threw a surprise celebration Friday for six longtime teachers who are retiring this month.The retirees, thinking they were attending a simple retirement ceremony at the school, were taken...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — An early morning assault of a cab driver ended in the arrest of a Huntington man and an injured Northampton police officer.Police received a call around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday from a cab driver who said a passenger pulled a knife on him on...

By ANDY CASTILLO

SUNDERLAND — Officials have big recreation plans for the town’s riverfront property at the end of School Street.“We have spent the past year working with a landscape architect to develop a long-range master plan for the entire 9.5 acres of town-owned...

Nyssa Kruse

NORTHAMPTON — As preschool students ran around the gym inside Sunnyside early child care center Tuesday afternoon, they were trailed by special visitors: board members of the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.The group stopped by...

By NYSSA KRUSE

BELCHERTOWN — Joe Arpaio, former sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County who has styled himself “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” will be a guest speaker this weekend at a Second Amendment rally in town.Arpaio, who turns 85 this week, will speak at...

By BOB DUNN

By BOB DUNNbdunn@berkshireeagle.comPITTSFIELD — “Laura Reilly had nothing to do with the disappearance of Jo Ringer.” That was the contention of Reilly’s attorney, Jesse Adams, in Berkshire Superior Court on Monday.While Reilly, 42, of Easthampton,...