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By EMILEE KLEIN

HOLYOKE — Youssef Ahmed Sabbagh remembers little about growing up under Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, but the details he can recall are memories he’d rather forget.“I used to hear and see missiles, bullets and explosives,” said Sabbagh, a...

By AVA LARKIN

Imagine walking into an emergency room in the middle of a mental health crisis, only to be told you’ll have to wait —possibly for days or even weeks — before receiving the care you need. This is happening every day in Massachusetts. The mental health...

By CAROLYN BROWN

At an upcoming new concert series at a recently opened venue in Holyoke, guests can listen to live music while they eat themed meals and help local students build career skills.The series, Feast & Harmony, will debut next week at De La Luz Soundstage...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Mount Holyoke College hopes to celebrate its bicentennial in 2037 by declaring the campus carbon neutral, and the liberal arts college has already taken significant steps toward that goal as it moves into phase three of a new geothermal...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — A six-month search for a police chief culminated on Thursday when Mayor Joshua Garcia named Brian Keenan to monitor the city with one of the highest crime rates in the state.“I’m an outside candidate but I’m a local guy” said Keenan,...

By RYAN AMES

The seventh installment of Thanksgiving-Day football between South Hadley and Holyoke has arrived.The Tigers and Purple Knights will square off in their own ‘Battle of the Bridge’ on Turkey Day at South Hadley’s Turf Field at 10 a.m.South Hadley has...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Mount Holyoke College will endow two new faculty chairs named after accomplished alums Debra Martin Chase, a film and musical producer, and Suzan-Lori Parks, a playwright, thanks to an anonymous $6 million gift — the largest gift from a...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A $100 million fund to support the health and resilience of the Connecticut River watershed, including money that would go toward improving aging flood controls and dikes and upgrading water and sewer systems, is being sought by area...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — Driving down Interstate 91, said U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, “you see the phoenix rising from the ashes,” referring to a long-awaited new home for area veterans that’s been under construction for the last 451 days.Neal admired the progress being...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Even as about a third of eligible voters in the region and across the state have already cast their ballots in the presidential election, many more voters are expected to come out to the polls on Tuesday to decide national, state and local races, as...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Still recovering from a devastating fire that destroyed its barn and farm store at 7 Carver St., Red Fire Farm in Granby is receiving $500,000 from the state’s Farm Security Infrastructure Grant program, money that will go some of the...

By PATRICK O’CONNOR

 We need to differentiate between general bad behavior in youth sports and outright racism.Yes, some parents and coaches lose their composure, behaving poorly at games. But that’s not what our Holyoke athletes are facing.In the past two weeks, the...

By DR. DAVID GOTTSEGEN

 As a pediatrician, I not infrequently try to help children who have been bullied. I’ve learned that the bully on the schoolyard — just like bullies at work, or in government — depend on the work of flying monkeys to maintain their power.It’s weirdly...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HOLYOKE — The end is officially in sight for state receivership of Holyoke’s public schools, a significant achievement that advocates of local control say will have enormous positive impacts on students, educators and families for years to come. The...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Pedestrian safety and utility infrastructure improvements totaling $4.4 million for an affordable housing development in Easthampton, $1.94 million to build a new roundabout in Amherst at the edge of the University of Massachusetts...

By MIKE MORAN

HOLYOKE — Springfield Central senior Ja’Cyion Cox returned the opening kickoff 75 yards for a touchdown and the Golden Eagles cruised from there to beat Holyoke, 62-0, Friday night at the Roberts Sports Complex.“They deserve all the accolades that...

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HOLYOKE — A nearly $5 million award from the Healey-Driscoll administration will establish a Quantum Computing Complex at the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center in Holyoke, an intercollegiate joint venture of the University of...

By EMILEE KLEIN

HOLYOKE — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren toured the Holyoke Health Center on Thursday afternoon to meet with health care professionals and trainees who will benefit from the $1 million she helped secure in March to begin a workforce training facility....

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Superior Court Associate Justice Francis E. “Frank” Flannery, appointed to the bench in 2018 after a more than 20-year career that included serving as assistant district attorney in the Northwestern district attorney’s office, died over...