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Four players scored in double figures, and the South Hadley girls basketball team captured a 64-24 Suburban League victory over Amherst on Thursday night.Maddie Soderbaum led the way with 16 points for the Tigers. Ava Asselin added 12 points in the...

By GARRETT COTE

During her first season on the middle school field hockey team at Bement, Charlotte Johnson-Mersack was thrown into the fire immediately.The Bement team didn’t have a goalie, and with the first game fast-approaching, a sacrifice had to be made. Given...

Hockey fans — are you ready for a busy few months? The Bruins sit in first place in the Eastern Conference. UMass continues its quest for a top seed in Hockey East – plus a spot in Springfield’s NCAA DI Men’s Ice Hockey Regional. And PWHL Boston...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Pulaski Park will host Northampton’s inaugural Winterfest this Saturday, an event that coincides with the city’s traditional ice sculpture festival in a celebration of the winter season that’s expected to give the city’s downtown a boost...

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — Three faculty at the University of Massachusetts are joining the state’s new Climate Science Advisory Panel, a group of 21 experts who will attempt to bridge the communication and knowledge gap between policymakers and scientists. The UMass...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A 1995 Amherst Regional High School graduate’s work on the first season of the FX/Hulu television series “The Bear” is earning him a Primetime Emmy Award.Ebon Moss-Bachrach took home the best supporting actor in a comedy series award at the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A specialized state energy code that would require newly constructed homes using fossil fuels to have both on-site solar arrays and be wired to become all-electric in the future is not yet being recommended for adoption in Hadley.Though both...

By STEVE PFARRER

This past November, members of Hatchery, the teen dance troupe that’s part of Northampton’s School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, joined the Young@Heart Chorus at the elderly singers’ concert as part of a new dynamic: dancing to a number of songs...

Making Ground, Live!NORTHAMPTON — Late last winter, the Workroom Theater, the largest space in the city’s Community Arts Trust building (33 Hawley), was set to close down for months as new construction began to complete the 3,800-square-foot...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A management company that owns a Route 9 shopping plaza near the Amherst town line is considering adding a large self-storage development to an undeveloped portion of the property.At the Planning Board meeting Tuesday, Christian Brannelly,...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Beleaguered public transit, K-12 education, and the growing climate and clean energy technology sector would all get major boosts in state funding under Gov. Maura Healey’s vision for the year ahead.In a State of the Commonwealth speech...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Local child and family care providers are hailing the Healey-Driscoll administration’s recent boost of reimbursement rates for child care services as a “welcome change.” Last week the Board of Early Education and Care approved Gov. Maura Healey’s...

By LAURIE LOISEL

Editor’s note: This story is part of a Hampshire HOPE series about local efforts addressing the opioid epidemic.Sitting in a rocking chair holding 3-month-old Avaree, Kellyann Kaiser participated in a Zoom interview earlier this month, disappearing...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After several years without it, Look Park is bringing back its ice skating rink for residents to enjoy, as winter weather finally ramps up after a warm December.The rink, which measures 40 feet by 80 feet in size, will be located behind...

By GARRETT COTE

Josh Cohen stepped to the line with his UMass men’s basketball team tied against Loyola Chicago on Wednesday night. The Minutemen were trying to avoid consecutive losses for the first time this season, and despite free throws being the weakest link in...

Have a night, Zola Higham.The Amherst girls basketball senior poured in a game-high 28 points, including 17 in the first half, to help the Hurricanes to a 55-33 victory over Taconic on Wednesday in Amherst.The ’Canes led 28-21 before limited Taconic...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Coming around the final turn, nobody was within striking distance of Amherst’s David Pinero-Jacome. He had a clear view of the finish line.The senior, who was donning new spikes during Wednesday’s PVIAC Indoor Track Meet No. 4, then...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

DEERFIELD — The Williston Northampton School girls basketball team controlled the majority of Wednesday’s NEPSAC contest against Deerfield Academy, but the Big Green didn’t go down without a fight late.The Wildcat defense held the Big Green to just...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — After falling short the first time, residents on Tuesday signaled their support at the ballot box in authorizing up to $5 million in borrowing for road repairs.After a close rejection in December, voters at a special Town Election approved...

By GARRETT COTE

South Hadley streaking into marquee matchupFor the second time this season, the South Hadley boys basketball team will meet Monument Mountain – one of two remaining unbeatens in all of western Massachusetts (Duggan Academy being the other). The two...