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By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — Sonia Wilk was polite but frazzled. She hadn’t slept well in days. On Wednesday afternoon, she walked her bike down Conz Street, gripping a weathered stack of leaflets.She rolled her bicycle into the Fairfield Inn & Suites parking lot,...

By JACK SUNTRUP

The gypsy moth caterpillar’s on-again, off-again reign of destruction over Massachusetts forests starts in 1868 or 1869 in Medford.Leopold Trouvelot was an amateur entomologist who, in 1852, left France as Napoleon III was fastening his grip on power....

By DERRICK PERKINS

NORTHAMPTON — “Champ” the squirrel didn’t go down without a fight.Estimated at several weeks old, Champ was found Sunday by a friend of Jordana Starr, 32, who co-owns Beerology on Pleasant Street with her husband. The critter was in the mouth of the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST – A fox suffering from an illness that has caused it to lose much of its fur, and which may pose dangers to other wildlife, is continuing to roam neighborhoods in North Amherst. But Carol Hepburn, the town’s animal welfare officer, said the...