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By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE – The 2023 annual Town Meeting will be called to order by Matthew Fortier.The town’s health agent ran uncontested for moderator and won with 164 votes in Monday’s election. He replaces Christopher Woodcock, who decided not to seek re-election...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — A year and half after the mandate first went into place, all Massachusetts community colleges, including those in Greenfield and Holyoke, will no longer require COVID-19 vaccines for enrollment.The mandate, which went into effect in...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Going out with a whimper would have been an improvement.The UMass men’s basketball team scored a season-low 38 points and fell 71-38 against Richmond in the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament’s opening game at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

All 15 Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball teams are facing the same pressure this week at the Barclays Center: win the conference tournament to reach the NCAA Tournament, or lose and go home.UMass, seeded 13th, has a longer road than most. The...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – That’s what the UMass men’s basketball team wants to look like.The Minutemen pounded Saint Bonaventure in the paint and on the boards, closing the regular season with a 71-60 victory Saturday on Senior Day at the Mullins Center. They grabbed...

By HANNAH BEVIS

WILMINGTON, Del. – For the third consecutive season, the UMass women’s basketball team will play for a championship. It’s a sweet moment for the Minutewomen, a team where success has become an expectation. No longer the underdog, top-seeded UMass...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern and Sen. Ed Markey reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would begin the process of designating the Deerfield River as a National Wild and Scenic River.First introduced by McGovern, D-Worcester, in a July 2022...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

Gas supply rates for Eversource Gas of Massachusetts and Boston Gas Company (National Grid) customers have once again been reduced, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities announced Tuesday.“We’re happy that customers will see some rate...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The past, present and future of the UMass hockey team will converge in its final regular season series.The Minutemen will visit Maine for two games Friday and Saturday (7:05 p.m. ESPN-Plus). Former UMass assistant Ben Barr is in his second year...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

UMass freshman guard RJ Luis torched Duquesne for the second time in two meetings, but the Minutemen fell 88-79 in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.He scored 23 points on the road, making 9-0f-15 shots, to go along with with seven rebounds and three steals....

By CHRIS LARABEE

ERVING — With higher demolition estimates than initially anticipated for the International Paper Mill, the town will return to the Capital Planning and Finance committees to evaluate next steps.Three of the four new estimates surged beyond the initial...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Long may she reign.UMass women’s basketball graduate student forward Sam Breen – “Queen Breen” to fans and on social media – was named the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year for the second year in a row Tuesday. She became the league’s first repeat winner...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Very little is decided ahead of the final weekend of the Hockey East regular season.UMass sits 10th of 11 teams with 22 points and two games at current No. 6 seed Maine on deck Friday and Saturday (both 7:05 p.m. ESPN-Plus). The Minutemen (11-16-5,...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

While the temperature’s ups and downs might be puzzling this winter, local maple syrup producers are reluctant to question a good thing. For them, after all, the weather has been perfect.“We’re getting really good runs,” said Howard Boyden, owner of...

By JEFF LAJOIE

For the second year in a row, the Franklin Tech girls basketball team captured a state vocational title on Sunday.The top-seeded Eagles got out of the gates in impressive fashion, building a 24-5 lead after one quarter, and rolled past Blue Hills...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

WEST SPRINGFIELD — The last two Western Mass. championship games for the Greenfield hockey team came down to the wire. The Green Wave made a wild comeback before pulling out an overtime win against Wahconah in 2020, and last year, needed a goal in the...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The state tournament is officially here. The MIAA announced the brackets for its hockey and basketball state tournaments on Saturday, with a plethora of Recorder area schools earning spots in the field.The Pioneer boys basketball team is the...

By JAMES PENTLAND

Signs of a cooling real estate market continued to emerge in January, according to figures from the Realtor Association of the Pioneer Valley that show home sales dropped by 32.5% across the three counties compared to January 2022 statistics.The...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Abduli Gilmore made Mahar Regional School history last weekend. After taking first in the 113-pound weight class at the Central Massachusetts Division 3 Tournament, the sophomore earned a spot in the MIAA Division 3 Wrestling Championships at...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

A series with Hockey East’s top team might decide whether UMass occupies the league’s basement entering the season’s final weekend.The Minutemen (10-15-5, 4-13-3 Hockey East) will face No. 15 Northeastern (15-10-5, 12-5-3) in their penultimate series...