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By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The world’s largest coffee chain plans to add another shop in western Massachusetts this summer.The city’s Planning Board has unanimously approved a special permit to construct and operate a drive-thru Starbucks. The shop would be built...

By BRIAN STEELE

NORTHAMPTON — Hannah Yilmaz and her dog Leo, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier mix, went to The Green Groomer for the first time on Monday. Yilmaz said Leo has had traumatic experiences with corporate groomers, including the unnecessary removal of a...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — With a growing list of vendors wanting to work with the store, Whitney Hill Antiques is opening an additional location at the former Gables Restaurant at 250 Greenfield Road in Deerfield.With the new store slated for a soft opening May 1,...

AMHERSTCharles L. Burke to 20 Allen Street Inv LLC, 20 Allen St., $799,500 Ann P. Hudson and Amy L. Gaubinger to Heema Wallace and Owen C. Wallace, 27 Autumn Lane, Lot 27, $291,000 Robert Saul to Jordan Hayslip, 301 East...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A prominent businessman who owns two city hotels has reached a tentative deal to buy the Daily Hampshire Gazette’s headquarters at 115 Conz St., though there are no imminent plans for redeveloping the site.Mansour Ghalibaf, who operates...

By Monte Belmonte

NORTHAMPTON — Chef Michaelangelo Wescott has opened a new restaurant on Main Street in Northampton, in the old Belly of the Beast spot. And he’s calling it Wine Witch, a new French-inspired bistro right in the heart of downtown.Wescott’s “familiar” in...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — As the Select Board mulls the transfer of Club Castaway’s liquor and adult entertainment licenses, the focus of its latest discussion revolved around the new owners’ inexperience in managing a strip club.At its Wednesday meeting, the board...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A vodka company founded and based in Hadley, which has made its line of drinks in a 136-year-old distillery in Poland, is looking to begin some production in the community.Paul Kozub, V-One Vodka’s owner and founder, told the Planning Board...

AmherstJohn R. Beatty and Rosanne F. Beatty to Sherry Allan, 27 Green Leaves Dr., Lot 728, $271,000BelchertownPatience A. Hartley to Wicked Deals LLC, 228 Amherst Road, $47,000 G&H Development LLC to Quincy L. Ortiz and Jessica J. Dawicki, 99...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — After 64 years on Masonic Street, one of downtown’s longest-running stores has closed.Open since 1958, The Old Book Store turned its final page last month. In a phone interview Tuesday, owner Henry Walz confirmed that he is looking to...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Cannabis consumers have access to another adult-use retail shop on Northampton Street as Fyre Ants has officially opened its doors in a former car dealership.The city’s fifth cannabis retailer to open for business marked the occasion...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — Last year India House won the lottery — for a liquor license, a coveted item for many downtown restaurants.“It was like, did it really happen?” said Alka Kanoujia, who owns the restaurant with her husband Omprakash Kanoujia.Now, the...

AMHERST Nancy A Leonard RET and Ann M. Leonard Tr to Stephen R. Bruner and Leah C. Schmalzbauer, 26 Amity Place, Unit 26, $400,000 Frank A. Cable and F A. Cable to Seunghun Kang and Eunsuk Song, 92 Grantwood Dr., $398,000 Hannah Z. Meeran to...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — For more than half a century, the Jolly family has run Amherst restaurants where people can drop in to get a burger and beer in a casual environment.In Savannas Amherst Bar & Bistro, owner Aaron Jolly is creating a place that he hopes will...

By FRAN RYAN

EASTHAMPTON — As the world tries to combat global climate change and find workable clean alternatives to energy production, a small Easthampton company says it has a patented new way of creating electricity, one that could revolutionize how power is...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — A marijuana cultivation and manufacturing facility located in Monson and owned by cannabis giant Holistic Industries experienced a widespread mold infestation earlier this year, according to documents reviewed by the Gazette.An...

AMHERST Thomas L. Paige to Robert A. Cann and Catherine S. Bickford, 81 Cottage St., $366,400 Pauline Y. Knihnicki to Joseph J. Bosco-Cardozo, 25 Green Leaves Dr., Unit 520, $250,795 Plummer FT and Karen K. Rennar Tr to Sarah Tsang and Daniel...

By BERA DUNAU

AMHERST — Antonio Marquez Diaz grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he was a restaurant owner. Now Diaz is making a home for himself and his family in the Pioneer Valley, and is looking to change how people view his home country and its...

AMHERST Ernest M Urvater RET and Ernest M. Urvater Tr to Page FT and Brian T. Page Tr, 40 Autumn Lane, Unit 40, $235,000 Nicholas T. Dines and Susan K. Waltner to Kelly A. Mckeown, 58 Cottage St, $500,000 Carolyne Hinkel to Liam Bannon, 159...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

SHUTESBURY — Many of us find ourselves puzzling over what to do with a bare yard, or an outdoor space that doesn’t quite work, or even an established garden that has gone “meh.” We want to make a change, but we’re stuck. We might have too many ideas,...