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By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A used car business that can display up to 10 vehicles for sale at a time will be allowed to set up at a 1.4-acre parcel at the corner of Route 9 and Goffe Street.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Black military service, music, education, artistry, entrepreneurship and civil rights will be part of the fifth annual Ancestral Bridges’ Juneteenth Legacy Celebration on Saturday.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — With the Finance Committee advising the “worst is yet to come” for the town’s aging sewer system, members are unanimously supporting steep increases to the town’s proposed sewer and water rates.

By Bob Katzen

By BILL DANIELSON

June is upon us and we are all set to celebrate Father’s Day this coming weekend. If we have any luck at all the weather will be cooperative, but the pattern has been pretty dismal so far; 12 consecutive rainy weekends according to my brother. It has been a rough spring for outdoor activities, but that is seen strictly through the human lens. Our wild neighbors have a schedule to keep and the game is on rain or shine.

By GARRETT COTE

It was about as ideal a start as the Belchertown Post 239 senior legion baseball team could have asked for on Monday evening on the road against West Springfield Post 207, as Belchertown earned a 4-1 win to start the 2025 season fresh off its second consecutive District 3 title.

NORTHAMPTON — A No Kings rally is being held on the steps of Northampton City Hall Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Count the city among those advocating for universal health care in the state of Massachusetts.

By LOLI VIANA

There comes a time when even the most well-intentioned frameworks outlive their usefulness. When the structures that once protected us begin to hold us back. Northampton prides itself on its fiscal prudence over the last decade, but the current budgeting framework — once necessary and right — is no longer serving our city. The refusal to acknowledge this shift and the reluctance to move toward a more needs-based approach are now causing real harm. It’s undermining our city’s ability to meet its most fundamental responsibility: to serve its people.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HOLYOKE — Recent cancellation of an $87 million federal grant to support construction of a low-carbon cement startup’s manufacturing plant in Holyoke is not expected to derail plans that would have that facility open by 2028, though the company is reviewing backup options.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A new two-year contract with a private ambulance service, with an option for a third year, will mean emergency medical care at the Advanced Life Support level for Hadley residents will continue to be provided by Action EMS Ambulance.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

TURNERS FALLS — An equipment malfunction caused FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.’s Turners Falls dam to leak roughly 300 gallons of hydraulic fluid into the Connecticut River last week, marking the facility’s fourth such incident since 2021.

By DOUGLAS J. AMY

One of the main things that separates Republican politicians from Democratic ones these days is that the Democrats seem to still care whether people live or die. Not so much the Republicans. The fact is that the way Donald Trump and the Republicans are slashing vital government programs will inevitably result in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans — and many more abroad.

By GARRETT COTE

For the last two years, the Belchertown Post 239 Senior American Legion team has been the cream of the crop in Western Massachusetts. Post 239 breezed through their regular season schedule without a loss in 2024 before earning a 6-5 win in the District 3 championship over Aldenville Post 337 for their second consecutive title.

As the school year comes to an end and children embark on summer break, it can be challenging for parents to carve out time to exercise. Many families are juggling child care, work schedules, limited summer camp hours, and a host of other daily responsibilities while their children are home from school. Yikes. Even the thought is quite overwhelming.

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

In nearly six months of hits to the health of Americans, the actions of the House in passing Trump’s so-called “One, Big Beautiful Bill” budget last month have reached a new level of callousness and ignorance. The $880 billion dollar cuts over 10 years in aid to states for Medicaid programs would have disastrous effects.

By RYAN AMES

WESTHAMPTON – The No. 1 Hampshire Regional softball team’s senior duo of CC Thayer and Teagan Charles combined for five of the Raiders’ nine hits in their 10-1 win over No. 8 Frontier Regional in the MIAA Division 4 state tournament Round of 8 on Sunday afternoon.

By RYAN AMES

Day 2 of the MIAA Track & Field Meet of Champions was pushed 24 hours to Sunday due to inclement weather, yet Amherst Regional still managed multiple medals in the meet at Fitchburg State University.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HATFIELD — “Drive safely, drive slowly, and support public works.”

By COLIN A. YOUNG

The House approved a significant overhaul of marijuana oversight in Massachusetts on Wednesday, passing a bill that would downsize and reorient the scandal-hounded Cannabis Control Commission that has kept tabs on the legal industry since it launched almost eight years ago.