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By IYKO DAY

I would like to respond to Jonathan Kahane’s guest column of Dec. 29, “Haunted by questions with no good answers.” His column presents a series of rhetorical questions as a conceit to disguise his ideological defense of Israel’s genocidal bombardment...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The state attorney general’s office has sided with a resident and former member of the Fire District No. 1 Prudential Committee, who filed a complaint saying that he was unfairly removed from a meeting last March after he continued to...

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HADLEY — Melvin L. Wilson, 33, of Sunderland, is identified as the pedestrian killed after being struck by a vehicle on the Route 116 bypass early Saturday morning, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.Wilson was hit by a car...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A project to replace the town’s Mount Warner and Mount Holyoke water storage tanks by the end of 2026, at a total cost of around $9 million, will be brought to voters at annual Town Meeting in the spring.With a favorable recommendation from...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A project to resurface a 3.2-mile stretch of the Route 116 bypass, running from Meadow Street in Amherst south to Route 9 in Hadley, will prompt a realignment of the off-ramp from Route 116 where the state highways meet as a way of improving...

HADLEY — A 33-year-old Sunderland man died Saturday after he was struck by a car while walking along the edge of Route 116 in Hadley, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.Hadley Police, State Police assigned to the DA’s office, and...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Outgoing Fire Chief Robert Authier won’t miss the fires.Fires are traumatic and life threatening for the first responders and families whose building is ablaze, so he can’t say he’ll miss them.Yet when Authier stays home on Monday...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — The owner of a Route 9 landscaping company, who last fall cleared debris from the 243 Russell St. site to avoid being shut down, is again being warned that he could be subject to a cease-and-desist order and forced to close.During a site plan...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A year after joining the Hadley Police Department in 2014, Staff Sgt. Michael Romano became the town’s first school resource officer, taking on a role aimed at keeping students, teachers and staff safe at the four campuses in town.Over the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Email correspondence to all commissioners on the Hadley Housing Authority is prompting a board member to bring an Open Meeting Law complaint against her colleagues.Risë Smythe-Freed on Tuesday filed the complaint against commissioners John...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Customers trying to get into the Wanczyk Nursery parking lot Wednesday morning may have found their way blocked by a narrow trench dug for utilities extending across the entrance and a police officer directing vehicles past the Route 9...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Police reform legislation in Massachusetts and challenges to the health of several officers is making it difficult to keep the Hadley Police Department fully staffed.On the evening of Dec. 21, when the Select Board appointed Officer Jacob...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A small farm in Amherst near the Hadley town line is accepting Christmas trees, with ornaments and tinsel removed, to feed a half dozen goats.Michelle Chandler, who has six Nigerian Dwarf goats at her farm, said that people are welcome to...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Amherst’s blockbuster girls swimming season ended with its first state championship in 2022. The Hurricanes will shoot the sequel with a new director.A four-time conference swimmer of the year in the mid 90’s at New Hampshire, Denise Leckenby took...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

BELCHERTOWN — A 35-year-old South Hadley man charged with the September killing of his father in Hampshire County’s second homicide of the year, pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted arson of a dwelling in Eastern Hampshire District Court on...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A Bel Air, Maryland man will serve four years in state prison for sexually assaulting an Amherst teenager last year, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.David Gray Jr., 42, pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SOUTH HADLEY — Typical single-family property owners in Fire District No. 1 will see a nearly $300 increase in their tax bills in fiscal 2023, a significantly larger jump than the average homeowners are facing in Fire District No. 2, based on...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Select Board members are being challenged by the executive director of the Hadley Housing Authority for what she contends has been inappropriate interference in the functioning of its board of commissioners.Executive Director Pamela Rogers,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A Williamsburg woman whose horse fell ill while being kept at a University of Massachusetts stable in spring 2019, and had to be put down, is seeking unspecified damages against the university in a lawsuit alleging negligence in the animal’s...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — A Connecticut man allegedly in possession of illegal drugs and a loaded handgun, along with additional rounds of ammunition, was arrested on a series of charges following a traffic stop on Route 9 early Friday morning, according to Hadley...