Tracing slavery’s stain: UMass’ Slavery North initiative exploring region’s ties from new campus home
AMHERST — In both Hadley and Northampton, as well in as other communities throughout the Connecticut River Valley, Black women were among those enslaved by the region’s European settlers in the 1600s and by those living in Massachusetts until slavery...
Mixed-use project cut to single building
AMHERST — Citing the high costs for steel, which may go up even more due to uncertainty around tariffs, an Amherst developer is scaling back a mixed-use development at the corner of Amity Street and University Drive on the edge of the UMass campus.The...
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Boys basketball preview: New Belchertown coach has high expectations for Orioles
After spending the last several years as head coach of the Hopkins Academy boys basketball team, Jim Hart is now in charge of a different Hampshire County program just up the road. Hart accepted the Belchertown job in the offseason, and after speaking...
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Guest column: Let’s move on from Jones Library divisions
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Giving the gift of Christmases past: Deerfield children’s letters to Santa resurface after decades
From 1952 to 2008, children in Deerfield had an opportunity to write letters to Santa Claus and, after some time, a letter from the big man himself would be sent back to the child.Now, decades later after many of the letters were likely forgotten, a...