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By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Day in and day out for the past 31 years, through the busy spring planting and holiday seasons to the lulls of midwinter, Tom and Janine Giles have emphasized their responsibility to customers as owners of the Hadley Garden Center.“People...

By DOMENIC POLI

LEVERETT — Michael J. Kittredge II, whose homemade candle as a cash-strapped teenager evolved into an industry giant, has died. He was 67.Kittredge, founder of the Yankee Candle Co., died Wednesday evening at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — When Noelle Nubani and Cyrus Safizadeh open their new dental practice next month on Route 9, the couple will begin with just a handful of patients in what appears to be an increasingly competitive market for those who are in the field of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Hilda Gruber remembers making and selling ice cream to families at the public swimming hole on her family’s dairy farm in Pennsylvania in the 1930s.“We made homemade ice cream in those days,” Gruber says. “We had a farm and a swimming pool,...

By BERA DUNAU

HADLEY — Faces is officially back.“Our dream was to keep it open,” said Amy Gallant, one of Faces’ four owners.The iconic western Massachusetts gift shop, which suddenly closed its downtown Northampton location earlier this month, opened its doors for...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

This article was updated to reflect that the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education received documentation in December 2012 from the state Department of Children and Families determining that allegations of neglect of a student by...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A victim of a violent home invasion in Amherst, speaking publicly for the first time in Hampshire Superior Court Monday, said he no longer sleeps well at night, is incapable of functioning in social settings and continues to suffer from...

By ANDY CASTILLO

Ahead in a clearing lies a pine tree. Sunlight, filtering down through a leafy canopy illuminates its bare branches. There’s nothing to be heard but the gentleness of wind and the sweet trill of birdsong, which echos through towering oak trunks and...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — South Hadley native Richard Koske was always drawn to a life of holiness. A devout Catholic, he says his faith remains strong despite being abused by three priests and receiving a disappointing response from the Roman Catholic Diocese of...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School is looking for a new director after trustees voted Monday to fire head of school George Simpson. The board’s decision comes a month after Reading police arrested Simpson on...

By SARAH ROBERTSON

SOUTH HADLEY — A 3-year-old Saint Bernard named “Ziggy” has again been sentenced to death.In a Nov. 28 ruling, Eastern Hampshire District Court Judge Matthew Shea said he “affirmed the request of the Town of South Hadley to humanely euthanize Ziggy.”...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A Holyoke man was sentenced Friday to more than 15 years in state prison for raping a South Hadley woman and then attempting to have her murdered.Jason Coons, 38, pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to charges of conspiracy in the...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A South Hadley teenager was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail in the death of a Westfield man delivering pizza in the spring of 2016.Ryan D. Brunelle, 19, pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to negligent motor vehicle homicide...

By EMILY CUTTS

BELCHERTOWN — A South Hadley man accused of raping a woman last week will be held without the right to bail after an Eastern Hampshire District Court judge deemed him dangerous Thursday.Michael Durgin, 36, pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of...

By EMILY CUTTS

Two men criminally charged in the illegal dumping of concrete into the Connecticut River in the spring of 2016 have each agreed to pay $5,000 in restitution.Christopher Baj and Matthew Olszewski agreed Monday in Eastern Hampshire District Court to...

By EMILY CUTTS

BELCHERTOWN — A South Hadley man is being held without right to bail pending a dangerousness hearing on charges that he raped a woman he met through a dating app.Michael Durgin, 36, pleaded not guilty Monday in Eastern Hampshire District Court to two...

The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners’ ruling earlier this month on projects in Hadley and Amherst left each town facing a decision.The state awarded Hadley a $3.9 million construction grant to help pay for replacing the Goodwin Memorial...

By SARAH GARDNER

NORTHAMPTON — No community in Hampshire or Franklin counties would be allowed to ban recreational marijuana facilities without an affirmative vote by referendum.A bill approved by the Legislature last week and awaiting Gov. Charlie Baker’s signature...

By Sarah Gardner

SPRINGFIELD — They came with a simple message for Pioneer Valley Transit Authority: Give us more bus options, not less.As the PVTA’s advisory board prepared to meet Wednesday in Springfield, 16 people stood outside to protest proposed cuts to bus...

The potential scaling back of Pioneer Valley Transit Authority bus routes serving the Five Colleges is troubling because hundreds of people would lose public transportation vital to their studies and livelihoods.We urge the PVTA advisory board, which...