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Resilience, hope define South Hadley High School Class of 2024
06-01-2024 11:20 AM

By ALEXA LEWIS

SOUTH HADLEY — Sunlight beamed into the basin of Gettell Ampitheater at Mount Holyoke College on Friday evening as South Hadley High School’s class of 2024 exchanged handshakes and marched, two by two, into the next phase of their lives. Gathered...

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Granby High’s Class of 2024: ‘You’re the greatest thing we’ve ever lost’
06-09-2024 4:31 PM

By Emilee Klein

GRANBY — When Dr. Dog’s “Where’d All the Time Go?” played from the speakers of the Edward Sullivan Gymnasium, the 48 graduates of Granby Junior Senior High School answered the question in the title of viral hit by throwing their caps in the air with...


Smith Academy Class of 2024 ‘small’ and ‘mighty’
06-09-2024 2:30 PM

By Elise Linscott

HATFIELD — At Smith Academy on Friday, 19 graduates walked step by step into the Sherry A. Webb Gymnasium while “Pomp and Circumstance” played on the piano. Dressed in purple and white caps and gowns, they took their seats on the stage in front of...


‘Contagious spirit’ shapes Hampshire Regional High School’s Class of 2024; 101 graduates say goodbye
06-09-2024 1:16 PM

By Lily Reavis

WESTHAMPTON — Hampshire Regional High School’s Class of 2024 is a collective of 101 artists, athletes, musicians, leaders, and scholars who graduated on Friday evening surrounded by a sea of proud family and friends on the school’s Dorunda Field.The...


Easthampton’s ‘warm cool’ class of 2024 met challenges head-on
06-08-2024 4:00 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — Standing before Easthampton High School’s Class of 2024 on Friday evening, state Rep. Daniel Carey couldn’t help but remember his own senior year at the school, which he spent serving as class secretary, stocking the shelves at Big E’s,...


Hurricanes forever: 215 Amherst Regional High School graduates celebrate accomplishments, get ready to work for the future
06-08-2024 12:32 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — As members of the 2024 class graduate from Amherst Regional High School, they will likely face adversity and be pushed to their limits in the years ahead. But Class President Neil Cunniffe, speaking during Friday’s graduation ceremony, told...


Belchertown High grads eager for next steps
06-07-2024 5:53 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — In the high school gymnasium bustling with excitement and nerves in the thick, humid air, 155 seniors attempted a formal entrance to their graduation ceremony, but the single-file step-together-step sequence that students had rehearsed...


PVPA’s class of 2024 urged to play and work as they head into the world
06-07-2024 4:14 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Rather than advising his students to read a book a week the rest of their lives, or egg them on to achieve the impossible, Brent Nielsen rallied Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School graduates on Thursday to preserve one of their...


Smith Voc commencement: Graduates ready for next steps
05-31-2024 5:05 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — When the state’s Department of Agricultural Resources commissioner Ashley Randle took the podium at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School’s football stadium in front of a crowd of hundreds of parents and families Thursday...


For 20 graduates, time to move on from PVCICS ‘family’
05-30-2024 4:29 PM

By JAMES PENTLAND

HADLEY — With cheers and flowers, thanks and praise, the 20 members of the senior class and their families celebrated graduation early Wednesday evening at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School’s eighth commencement, held in the school’s...


GCC grads mark start of ‘a lifelong pursuit of knowledge’
05-29-2024 3:25 PM

By SAM FERLAND

GREENFIELD — Cheers and cowbells rang aloud on Saturday as members of Greenfield Community College’s Class of 2024 marched between rows of flowers to the stage, collected their diplomas, and celebrated their success with their families and friends.GCC...


‘It’s time to gallop’: Deerfield Academy speakers share advice with 201 graduates
05-29-2024 2:04 PM

By LIESEL NYGARD

DEERFIELD — Speakers at Deerfield Academy’s commencement ceremony on Sunday shared jovial messages with the 201 graduates, including lessons that could be learned from a creative senior prank.Leila Govi, a Deerfield Academy alumna who graduated in...


Spreading the wealth of wisdom: Smith College to have 5 keynote speakers at 2024 graduation
02-26-2024 2:00 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — In a break from tradition, Smith College’s graduating class of 2024 will not have one keynote speaker during May’s commencement but five different honorees who will offer parting wisdom for students looking to begin the first steps of...


Amherst-Pelham graduates commit to meeting challenges, reflect on accomplishments
06-11-2023 9:20 AM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Krish Poudel speaks proudly about the Amherst-Pelham Regional High School Class of 2023, both for the many accomplishments its members faced and for how they dealt with the numerous challenges thrown in their way over the last four years....


Editorial: High school graduates urged to embrace diversity, practice compassion
06-12-2017 8:09 PM

High school graduations are bittersweet times of looking back at accomplishments reached and friendships made, while considering the uncertainties of the journey ahead, whether the chosen path is school, the military or employment.They are also a time...


Northampton High School bids musical farewell to 223 graduates
06-11-2017 10:59 PM

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — Northampton High School’s senior class president Matti Tacy spent much of her commencement speech Sunday talking about the class of 2017’s accomplishments: There were Nickolas Smith and Patrick Quinlan, who won All-American status in...


Amherst graduates urged to bend the moral arc
06-10-2017 12:39 AM

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Hundreds of family members and friends crowded into the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Mullins Center for the 153rd Amherst Regional High School graduation on Friday. Buying flowers and snacks in the lobby before taking their seats,...


Easthampton High grads celebrate the power of compassion and gratitude
06-04-2017 8:56 PM

By NYSSA KRUSE

EASTHAMPTON — Preparing for her commencement speech as salutatorian of Easthampton High School’s class of 2017, Angela Nardi created a Google document where her classmates could leave anonymous shout-outs to one another.Though Nardi said she worked...


Granby graduates look toward future
06-04-2017 1:18 PM

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

GRANBY — After six years at Granby Junior Senior High School, the 79 graduates who walked across the stage Saturday are looking toward the larger world — while staying thankful for their community.Saturday marked the next chapter and the start of...


South Hadley salutatorian: We are not special, except we are
06-03-2017 5:29 PM

By NYSSA KRUSE

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley High School’s salutatorian Bertram Thomas had a message for his graduating peers: None of them are special.“None of us,” he said, “are statistically likely to make a mark on the history of humanity.”About 140 seniors...


At Gateway, grads embrace compassion, differences
06-03-2017 11:18 AM

By Fran Ryan

HUNTINGTON — Beach balls bounced through the audience and air horns loudly sounded when Superintendent David B. Hopson declared the members of the Gateway Regional High School Class of 2017 to be officially graduated on Friday evening.The graduation...

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