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By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD – Four of six North Quabbin residents facing charges of kidnapping and other crimes stemming from an alleged Feb. 1 incident were arraigned Monday afternoon in Franklin County Superior Court, where their cases have been transferred from...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
GRANBY — Olivia Vassar hurled herself across the corner of the end zone and clasped the disc in her hands as her knees slid across the damp turf.She exemplified the declaration the Four Rivers girls ultimate team made at halftime of Sunday’s Amherst...
By DOMENIC POLI
ORANGE – Construction is coming along on what will be the new playgrounds at Fisher Hill Elementary School, and the local superintendent said students can look forward to the recreation areas opening in late August or early...
By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD – Collaboration is the name of the business game in Franklin County, and the Chamber of Commerce’s monthly breakfast Friday morning highlighted some community partners that can help businesses of any stage and type get their feet underneath...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – The offense faced a third and one with three minutes left holding a two-point lead. A first down could all but seal the game.UMass handed the ball off to transfer running back Jalen John, and he plowed ahead for the conversion.Had it not...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
WEST SPRINGFIELD — Track athletes from Frontier, Mohawk Trail and Mahar braved the rain and cold to compete in the 2023 Dr. George Steele Relays on Saturday. The Frontier girls 4x100-meter hurdles team earned a first place finish, completing the race...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — It’s safe to say the next iteration of the MIAA Division 5 baseball power rankings will look a little different. Oxford, which held the No. 1 spot in the initial MIAA power rankings that were released Friday, came to Franklin County for a...
By DOMENIC POLI
WENDELL – Dan Keller has said he will not seek re-election to the Selectboard in the 2023 election, but he never promised his name wouldn’t appear elsewhere on the ballot.The 20-year Selectboard veteran opted to retire from the three-member board, but...
By DOMENIC POLI
WARWICK — A quarrel about the new Fire Station’s condition has made its way onto the Annual Town Meeting warrant, in the form of a citizen’s petition article asking voters for a $250,000 upgrade.Resident and former volunteer firefighter William Lyman...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — A Supreme Judicial Court ruling that alcohol tests given with a certain type of breathalyzer were invalid evidence in drunken-driving prosecutions between 2011 and 2019 will not affect area prosecutors’ approach to such cases.The Boston...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Steve Casula examined every aspect of the UMass football team’s offense in the offseason.The Minutemen finished last in the country scoring just 12.5 points per game and were third from the bottom gaining just 265.8 yards per contest. They...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Another former Minuteman is headed to the Power 5.Former UMass men’s basketball forward Tafara Gapare announced his commitment to Georgia Tech on Tuesday. The former four-star recruit originally pledged to DePaul as a member of the Class of 2023...
By JULIAN MENDOZA
ERVING — Residents overwhelmingly supported a one-time capital exclusion to fund demolition of the former International Paper Mill when polled during a public discussion at Erving Elementary School on Monday evening.The $3,700,000 override, paired...
By HANNAH BEVIS
HADLEY — With the pressure mounting in Monday afternoon’s softball game between Franklin Tech and Hopkins Academy, you could cut the tension with a knife. A game that initially seemed over in the first few innings – the visiting Eagles raced out to a...
By JAMES PENTLAND
SPRINGFIELD — New England Public Media’s Latino Advisory Board has resigned en masse over recent layoffs that its members say disproportionately affected people of color, despite NEPM management’s repeated assurances of its commitment to a...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
TURNERS FALLS — The Turners Falls baseball team had scored eight runs in its first four games, but you’d never know it with the way it hit the ball on Wednesday against Hoosac Valley. The Thunder mustered 13 hits in five innings, with each part of the...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Frank Martin coached his first season as the UMass men’s basketball coach without a fully executed contract, according to documents obtained Wednesday.The Daily Hampshire Gazette requested Martin’s contract last April after he was hired in late March,...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Gino Campiotti raced toward the front pylon. This year he met the football there from inside the end zone and hauled in a catch for a (spring practice) touchdown as a tight end rather than diving to score from outside like last season when...
By MARY BYRNE
ORANGE — Chronic absenteeism of the district’s youngest pupils has resulted in a higher number of kindergarten students than usual being recommended for retention, according to school administrators.Superintendent Elizabeth Teahan-Zielinski recently...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Sunderland’s Sara Smiarowski was taking pictures with her 2-month old daughter and husband, holding her medal with pride after completing the 117th Boston Marathon when she heard a loud boom. “I just thought it was fireworks for Patriots Day,”...
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