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By Alexa Lewis

EASTHAMPTON — The Easthampton City Arts (ECA) Public Art Committee will host an unveiling on Saturday of its newest sculpture on the Nashawannuck Pond Promenade. The sculpture has been years in the making, with the initial idea proposed in 2019 by...

By Alexa Lewis

WESTHAMPTON — At Westhampton’s annual Town Meeting this Saturday, voters will consider a $7 million budget for fiscal 2025 and decide whether to fund a solar installation project atop the new Public Safety Complex.The budget represents a modest 4.4%...

Photo: Lime spreader

Gallup reports that 18% of Democratic voters support Israel’s violence against Palestinians. The revulsion the other 82% feels is caused by Israel’s attack on the doctrine of universal human rights, a doctrine expressed in the Declaration of...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

A couple of months ago my son recommended a book to me. You’d think I’d have learned by now to treat any advice he proffers with extreme caution. Against my better judgment, I reasoned, he’s 37 years old now, married, raising a family, and an...

Gorgeous scenery, flowing rivers, diverse wildlife for miles — a perceived utopia to any outsider, and the very things that attracted me to western Massachusetts from a big city like Philadelphia. Imagine my dismay after finally arriving at a place...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

All Leverett and Shutesbury residents have access to high-speed Internet connections, following the municipal build-out of broadband over the last decade or so, but a small portion of households continue to opt against becoming subscribers.In...

On Jan. 31, Congressman Jim McGovern voted for H.R.6679 [No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act], which passed. It makes it illegal for representatives of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to enter the United States. The Biden...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTHAMPTON — The Southampton Select Board agreed last week to withhold paying its quarterly assessment to the Hampshire Regional School District in response to ongoing challenges in the school district’s business office that are putting the town’s...

By JONATHAN KAHANE Now that some of the dust has settled since my last guest column [“Haunted by questions with no good answers,” Gazette, Dec. 28], I will take this opportunity to try and rectify distortions that were submitted in letters during the...

By GREG REYNOLDS and JESSE PORTER-HENRY

Saying that we were moved barely begins to describe how we felt on Jan. 8 when student after student spoke on educators’ behalf at the Hampshire Regional School Committee meeting. Current students, recent grads now in college and those who are into...

By BERA DUNAU

WESTHAMPTON — Town Democrats will hold a party caucus Thursday, giving them a voice in the selection of candidates for governor and other statewide offices. However, eight other Hampshire County communities will not be sending caucus delegates to the...

By SARAH ROBERTSON

NORTHAMPTON — The crowd at Smith College Friday night had a 10-year-old to thank for a visit from civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who in 1960 became the first black student to attend an all-white public school in the South.Responding to a request...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HUDSON — The tears formed behind Brian McGan’s mirrored sunglasses.Hampshire Regional’s softball coach for the past decade watched his final game through the darkened frames, but took them off after the Raiders’ 5-0 loss to Grafton in the Division 2...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

WESTHAMPTON — Hampshire Regional’s last postseason softball loss occurred June 11, 2014.Grafton beat the Raiders 2-0 at Worcester State in the Division 2 state semifinals.Since then, Hampshire has won three more Western Massachusetts championships and...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

WESTHAMPTON — The large, black walnut tree that stands tall in the heart of Westhampton, towering over the Blacksmith Shop Museum, provides an iconic image: the tree’s branches, broadly reaching against a blue sky.That same image will now officially...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

MONTAGUE — Nerves affect even two-time defending state champions before their first playoff game.The Hampshire Regional softball team swung at pitches outside the strike zone and popped out three times in the first two innings against Easthampton in...

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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 GINNY CURTIS

There is a storm brewing in Westhampton. Some folks are looking to the skies; most taxpayers are glaring up at Town Hall. Will the Select Board prove Jonathan Swift wrong when he said, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”?Having attended...