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Amherst Historical Society preps for move to downtown commercial spot
Termination of $300K federal grant presents ‘an institutional setback’ for PVMA
A light for children facing abuse: Children’s Advocacy Center thanks donors, honors Belchertown police, schools at luminaria
Amherst council OK’s funding to prep middle school building for new 6th Grade Academy
Columnist Johanna Neumann: Let wildlife roam — An important new wildlife bill can help reconnect critical habitat
Amherst finance director to return to UMass
Tapestry to expand mobile opioid harm reduction services to Hadley
Jones Library project in Amherst a go: Effort to rescind $46.1M in funding fails at emergency meeting
Amherst’s Jones Library renovation and expansion funding sources
Tariffs hit home for small business
HADLEY — Before 2,000 cases of V-One Vodka produced in a Kamień, Poland, factory can be unloaded from a cargo ship, set to arrive in Port Elizabeth, N.J., next week, company founder Paul Kozub will have to pay the U.S. government an $8,000 fee.
Dave’s Hot Chicken plans advance in Hadley; used car dealership eyed across from Hopkins
HADLEY — Recent demolition of a former bank at 5 South Maple St. will make way for a new building housing a fast-food restaurant specializing in Nashville hot chicken.
Sustainability Festival on tap Saturday in Amherst
With $402K grant, South Deerfield company with focus on supercapacitors poised to expand
Around Amherst: Applewood Retirement Community makes its voice heard
Students from WMass tell lawmakers education not measuring up
Sports
Shawn Durocher beginning first season as Amherst Golf Club head pro
Shawn Durocher spent her weekend mornings and afternoons wheeling a small gas grill behind the clubhouse at Amherst Golf Club, where she would cook hamburgers and hot dogs for those playing. She was in high school and needed a way to make some money, so Amherst’s head golf professional, Dave Twohig, hired Durocher – an Amherst native – to handle grilling duties.
High school baseball preview 2025: Hopkins Academy optimistic it can continue postseason success
HS Lacrosse Preview 2025: Defending champ Amherst girls looking to “re-load”
High school tennis preview 2025: PVCICS loaded again and ready for another postseason run
UMass Men’s Basketball: Three Minutemen enter transfer portal
Opinion
Guest columnist Tom Waskiewicz: Roots of wisdom — How small farms preserve their way of life in western Massachusetts
Small family farms are more than businesses; they are a way of life, shaped by generations of experience, sacrifice, and resilience. Every field plowed, every seed planted, every harvest gathered carries with it the wisdom of those who came before. But there’s no handbook for passing down this knowledge. Instead, it happens in the quiet moments — side by side in the fields, in conversations at the kitchen table, in the habits formed over years of hard work.
Connie Kruger and Susan Tracy: Support Jones Library renovation and expansion
Eli Tannenbaum: Fighting money in politics: Democracy’s overlooked challenge
Benjamin G. Clark: McGovern’s complacency a reflection of our failing system
Guest columnist Kristin DeBoer: Let’s stand together for the valley you love
Arts & Life
Resonating through generations: Lady Pills releases new concept album, ‘Renowned in the Roaring Twenties’
A recording artist is connecting her family’s western Massachusetts roots to her new album.
Let’s Talk Relationships: Uncovering the roots of negative self-talk: What you say to yourself echoes in your relationships
Here to help the community’s artists: Human Scale Art Space aims to advance visual arts in the Pioneer Valley
‘Art in the Age of Human Impact’: New exhibition at UMass explores complex relationship between humans and nature
‘A woman who should be remembered’: New play about the life of Frances Perkins, the brains behind FDR’s New Deal, April 5 and 11