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By MICKEY RATHBUN

It’s not unusual these cold gray days to despair over the appearance of our gardens. It wasn’t so long ago that late-blooming asters and brilliant foliage punctuated the landscape. Now that I’m leaving garden cleanup until spring to help feed and...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

I received the announcement of the Western Massachusetts Master Gardener Association (WMMGA)’s spring symposiums earlier this month, when the wind was whipping the falling snow into spiraling towers of white. In early February, it’s hard for the imagination to break through the winter doldrums. Will we ever feel the touch of soft spring breezes or enjoy the sight of green shoots pushing through the cold dark soil? The WMMGA symposiums help us to jostle our gardening passions out of hibernation and into activity, even if only mental.

The Northampton Community Rowing Club competed in the Youth Northeast Fall Championship Regatta on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester on Sunday, closing out its season with a handful of amazing achievements.The girls junior novice took first place in the...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

Many gardens go drab this time of year after summer flowers have faded away. But in fields and along roadsides, swaths of native asters add explosions of color to the transitioning landscape, with their golden centered, star-shaped flowers ranging...

The Northampton Community Rowing masters team raced at the Paper City Regatta in Holyoke on Saturday, Sept 28 and at the Green Mountain Head Regatta in Putney, Vt. on Sunday, Sept. 29.At the Green Mountain Head Regatta, Stephen Rondhaler raced a...

The Holyoke Hockey Club, a new community-based youth hockey program, announced overwhelming success for its first registration period. The initial goal was to enroll 40 children, but due to unprecedented interest, 54 young players registered, with an...

On Sept. 7, Northampton Community Rowing youth boats raced in their first regatta of the fall season at the ninth annual Rockrimmon Regatta hosted by the Pioneer Valley Riverfront Club in Springfield. The boys A boat placed first (21:22.1) and the B...

Northampton Community Rowing is holding a fundraiser “Row for the River” to benefit the Connecticut River Conservancy on Sept. 15 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.Rowers will launch from the docks at the Mount Holyoke Community boathouse and row approximately...

By GARRETT COTE

The 2024 Paralympic Games kicked off in Paris on Wednesday, and will run through next Sunday, Sept. 8 with 22 sports being contested across the week and a half.One sport is of particular interest for residents of Hampshire County and Easthampton.Saige...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

It’s August and in my household that means one thing: local tomatoes. For much of the year, our grocery stores offer tomatoes tough enough to endure machine picking followed by days or weeks in cold storage. Even the more expensive, so-called...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

NORTHAMPTON — While Olympic rowers race at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium outside Paris, Hampshire County rowers are doing their best impression on the Connecticut River.Northampton Community Rowing, a non-profit rowing club with a boathouse...

CONNOR PIGNATELLO

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) will add women’s rowing as its 23rd sponsored sport when UMass joins the league in 2025-26. “We're extremely excited about the creation of the MAC Rowing Championships, beginning in the Spring of 2026,” said...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

After long weeks of yearning for gardening weather, we’re suddenly inundated by spring. Endless outdoor chores beg for our attention — composting, mulching, edging, scrubbing birdbaths and, at least in my garden beds, pulling out multitudes of maple...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

The word “herbarium” sounds a bit quaint, even antiquated. We may think of Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, which she created during her year at Mount Holyoke in 1847-48. Although she had begun studying plants at age 9 and was helping her mother in the...

CONNOR PIGNATELLO

AMHERST – UMass is moving its 21 sports from the Atlantic 10 to the Mid-American Conference, though the Minutemen don’t exactly have a home for every sport in their new conference.Baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

Most of us humans assume that other creatures experience the world through their senses of sound, taste, smell and touch, the same way we do. But we couldn’t be more wrong, as science writer Ed Yong explains in his fascinating new book, “An Immense...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

As the calendar page flips to the short but cruel month of February, I suspect that many gardeners, like me, are getting tired of the somber palette of gray and brown.Just in time to rescue us from seasonal ennui, a wonderful documentary, “Painting...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

There’s not a lot going on in my garden, now blanketed under a foot of snow, to inspire this month’s column. So I took a break from dreaming over the spring promise of seed catalogs and went in search of a soul-satisfying poem about the garden in...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

Crabapple trees are one of my favorite ornamental spring trees. A mainstay of the New England landscape, they offer three seasons of interest, plus a handsome branching habit that looks good all winter long, especially when decked with freshly fallen...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

I have a big patch of daylilies behind my house. They are a disorganized jumble of plants that were given to me along with others that I’ve bought at plant sales, nurseries and farmers markets. I have never paid much attention to this part of the...

Mistletoe is one of those Christmas traditions that many of us know little about, beyond the fact that people are supposed to kiss under it when it’s hung in a doorway during the holiday season. I got curious about it a few years ago when a friend...