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By GORDON SHAW

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Massachusetts Association for Community Action has launched its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program that helps low-income taxpayers prepare their tax returns.

HADLEY — The way this column generally works is that I ride around on my bicycle looking for interesting people to talk to. Since it’s a year-round column, many of my victims, err, subjects will be encountered in dead of winter.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — More than 85 skiers gathered at Berkshire East Mountain Resort on Thursday, enjoying a snowy day and camaraderie while raising more than $40,000 for United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — SunnyDayz Cannabis is making steady progress on its three-building site at 105 Greenfield Road (Routes 5 and 10) and is aiming to open its doors to the public this summer.

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — Wide eyes, wide smiles and the sound of large groups of children running around filled the Kendall Sports and Dance Complex on the campus of Mount Holyoke College Saturday afternoon.

Cameron Graves scored a season-high 17 points, and the Smith Academy boys basketball team turned a 19-16 halftime lead into a 44-40 victory over Hampshire Regional in Hampshire League North action on Friday night in Westhampton. The game was tied headed into the fourth quarter before the Falcons won the final eight minutes 14-10.

When I was in high school in Tennessee, I came north to visit Amherst College. Among the campus buildings that caught my attention was the Coolidge Cage. I had never seen such a thing before: a square floor plan, four-sided pyramidal roof, and space not only for basketball but for sports I associated with the outdoors, including tennis, baseball and especially track.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — Clare Higgins, executive director of Community Action of Pioneer Valley, will retire this summer after nearly 14 years at the helm of the nonprofit anti-poverty agency, marking an end to a career — she previously served as Northampton’s mayor and on its City Council for about 18 years — that has enabled her to make a difference in the lives of residents up and down the Pioneer Valley for the last three-plus decades.

It was a big Hampshire League North showdown at Mallet Gymnasium in Athol on Tuesday between the host Bears and Hampshire Regional. 

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST — The South Hadley boys basketball team hung on to clip Amherst, 60-49, Monday night.

The Hopkins boys basketball team put up a valiant effort against a strong Greenfield team on the road on Friday night, but the Golden Hawks eventually fell, 63-44, to fall to 2-13 on the season.

By ROB OKUN

By JACOB NELSON

At Smith College, the power of local ingredients and diverse cuisine is on display.

By CHRIS LARABEE

Civil rights activists, war tax refusers, supporters of local agriculture and advocates of simple living Wally and Juanita Nelson left an outsized impact during their decades in Franklin County.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP, BRIAN MELLEY and LEA SKENE

ARLINGTON, Va. — A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft, officials said Thursday, as they scrutinized the actions of the military pilot and reported that control tower staffing was “not normal” at the time of the country’s worst aviation disaster in a generation.

Offense was clicking for the Smith Academy girls basketball team in the first half on Thursday night, and the Falcons’ defense took over from there. The hosts scored 30 points in the first half to take 30-11 advantage at the break, then surrendered only four points over the final two quarters en route to a dominant 41-15 triumph over Gateway Regional at Sherry Webb Gymnasium in Hatfield.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP and ERIC TUCKER

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A passenger jet collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.

SOUTH HADLEY – The South Hadley wrestling team fell short to Franklin County Tech, 36-34, in an entertaining match on Wednesday.

By GARRETT COTE

Installment No. 4 of the weekly high school basketball notebook is upon us, and to be honest I’m excited for this one – the last edition in the month of January. We’re that much closer to postseason basketball, so we will take a look at where each team (boys and girls) in Hampshire County currently stands in the Western Mass. and state tournament rankings in their respective classes/divisions.