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Report: South Hadley Police need more officers, dispatchers
08-12-2024 5:50 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A new police staffing study recommends hiring five police officers to fill gaps in patrol coverage caused by a growing amount of specialty services and administrative work, but town officials will wait to make any decisions on public...


‘Granby Girl’ gets her name back: Family unveils new tombstone for Patricia Ann Tucker, who’d been missing for 44 years
08-08-2024 5:09 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Closure for Matthew Dale meant giving his mother her name back — and he did just that on Thursday in a quiet ceremony at the West Street Cemetery.In 1978, Dale’s mother went missing when he was 5 years old. His family reported her...


Northampton man, 19, struck and killed walking along I-91 on Monday
07-30-2024 5:04 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — A young Northampton man was struck and killed Monday evening on Interstate 91 near Exit 25, authorities have confirmed.At roughly 9:40 p.m. on Monday, State Police say the crash was reported, drawing State Police detectives attached to...


Award allows Easthampton police to outfit all officers with own bodycams
07-30-2024 5:00 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — An award of $16,204.87 from the state’s Law Enforcement Body-Worn Camera Program will allow the city Police Department to expand its existing body-worn camera supply and related infrastructure, which will enable it to outfit all officers...


Southampton Police search for 2 suspected of credit card fraud
07-24-2024 8:33 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

SOUTHAMPTON — The Southampton Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying two individuals suspected of credit card fraud. The department posted photos from a store security camera to Facebook on Wednesday afternoon that depict...


Belchertown police launch bodycam program
07-24-2024 12:57 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Before police officers began their patrols last Friday, each officer clipped on one of the 23 fully charged body cameras sitting on a docking station, officially launching the department’s body-worn camera program that aims to improve...


Easthampton Police Chief Robert Alberti resigns citing health concerns
07-23-2024 3:44 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — After 24 years on the police force, Police Chief Robert Alberti has tendered his resignation and is set to retire in November at the conclusion of his current medical leave period.In a July 15 resignation letter to the city, Alberti...


Belchertown man dies in crash; third such death in Hampshire County in three-day period
07-22-2024 5:38 PM

BELCHERTOWN — Authorities are investigating a single-car crash that took the life of a 51-year-old Belchertown resident on Sunday night, the third fatal motor vehicle crash in Hampshire County in a 72-hour period.Police responded to Sunday’s crash at...


Man arrested in shooting that damaged Holyoke City Hall Annex
07-12-2024 3:11 PM

HOLYOKE — A man who police say was involved in a shooting Thursday afternoon that damaged the City Hall Annex building faces a raft of weapons and drug charges following his arrest soon after the shooting.Hector Rivera, no age given, of Holyoke was...


One arrested in shootout that took out Holyoke City Hall Annex window
07-11-2024 5:57 PM

Staff Report

HOLYOKE — One man is in custody, and another has been identified but was at large in the wake of a shootout Thursday at 1:45 p.m. near High Street and Worcester Place, the mayor’s office reported.Police said five shots were fired in the exchange. Two...


High-speed police chase in Hadley ends in crash, arrest on Hampton Inn lawn
07-11-2024 1:05 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HADLEY — A high-speed chase in Hadley on Wednesday night ended with a car crash that closed part of Bay Road after an unmarked police vehicle collided with the pursued vehicle just outside the Hampton Inn.The incident occurred shortly after 7 p.m....


Downed utility pole shuts down King Street in Northampton
07-10-2024 11:25 AM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

A section of King Street in Northampton was shut down to fix a downed telephone pole, the second time such an incident has occurred on the busy thoroughfare this year.The pole, located in front of the Lia Toyota dealership, was leaning towards the...


Turners Falls man charged after crashing into Deerfield house
07-03-2024 12:22 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

DEERFIELD — A Turners Falls man faces various charges, including his third OUI offense, after allegedly driving a vehicle into a River Road house last weekend.Jason E. Tyler, 50, pleaded not guilty in Greenfield District Court on Monday to charges of...


South Hadley PD raising money to launch comfort dog program
06-20-2024 4:02 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Police Department is fundraising $10,000 to recruit a new member with four paws, a tail and lots of fur.After Amherst, Greenfield and Belchertown reported the “transformative” impact of the police departments’ comfort dog program,...


Statewide 911 outage fixed after two hours offline
06-18-2024 2:52 PM

Staff Report

The state’s 911 dispatch system went offline for two hours Tuesday afternoon, forcing residents to call their local police department’s administrative numbers for emergencies during the dispatch system outage. Notification of the system’s failure...


Civil lawsuit against Northampton, officers stemming from 2017 arrest in front of City Hall set for fall trial
06-10-2024 3:48 PM

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — A civil lawsuit brought against the city by a former Northampton man who claims he was illegally arrested and defamed when he was detained while protesting in 2017 is set for trial in October.Eric Matlock filed suit in 2020, claiming two...


Lesbian bookstore revival: Bookends transforms in Florence
06-06-2024 5:19 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — From 1978 to 1989, Northampton’s lesbian bookstore Womonfyre did more than sell books.Like many lesbian bookstores in the 1970s and ’80s, the store on Masonic Street offered newspapers and periodicals associated with the second-wave...


Mystery shrouds case of injured moose euthanized in Sunderland
05-22-2024 12:42 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Police responded to the area of Bull Hill Road and Route 116 Tuesday morning for a report of a moose struck by a vehicle. Upon arrival shortly after 7 a.m., though, there were more questions than answers, as first responders found an...


It’s official: Fasoli sworn in as Southampton’s new fire chief
05-16-2024 9:17 AM

By Alexa Lewis

SOUTHAMPTON — Standing against the gleaming red backdrop of Engine 3, Richard Fasoli was sworn in as the Southampton Fire Department’s new fire chief in a brief ceremony on Wednesday. “I couldn’t do it without all of your help,” Fasoli said to those...


Amherst council confirms Gabriel Ting as police chief
04-30-2024 3:59 PM

AMHERST — A near-unanimous Town Council this week confirmed Police Capt. Gabriel Ting as Amherst’s next police chief.Six days after Town Manager Paul Bockelman said he would name Ting, a 27-year veteran and interim police chief since last May, to the...

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