Quabbin towns call for better state support for what they do to protect Boston-area drinking water
Around Amherst: Longtime Town Hall clerk Susan Audette bids adieu
Amherst maintains strong bond rating
Five-year water chestnut control plan approved for Lake Warner in Hadley
Around Amherst: Youth Hero Awards to highlight Race Amity Day
One voyage ends, another begins for Amherst Regional High School’s 190 graduates
AMHERST — After concluding her valedictory remarks reflecting on the last weeks of senior year, Daniella Sherman suggested taking a final high school selfie, which she did by taking out her cellphone and posing alongside her five fellow valedictorians and the full 190-member class on stage at the Tillis Performance Hall at the Bromery Center for the Arts.
Shaping young lives: Hadley’s Dave Wintsch named Person of the Year
HADLEY — One evening years ago at a Young Life Camp in the Adirondack Mountains, Dave Wintsch and the merry band of teenagers under his watch walked into a dining hall to big bowls of spaghetti and sauce, but not a single utensil.
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One voyage ends, another begins for Amherst Regional High School’s 190 graduates
Vacant former school in South Amherst could become anchor for housing development
Immigrant allies ask Amherst officials to call rapid-response hotline, confront ICE when agents are active in town
Juan Rodriguez named permanent principal at Amherst Regional Middle School
Jones Library groundbreaking set for June 18 in Amherst
Shaping young lives: Hadley’s Dave Wintsch named Person of the Year
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‘The stage is yours’: Belchertown High School sends 135 graduates out of the nest
Profiling ‘The Raider’: New book by UMass history professor Stephen Platt explores the life of a celebrated but unconventional Marine
UMass student is Gazette’s Young Community Leader for work with youth, domestic violence survivors
Sneak peek: Cooley Dickinson shows off progress on hospital’s new Emergency Department
Sports
Local briefs: Amherst Regional captures state middle school ultimate frisbee championship
The Amherst Regional middle school ultimate frisbee team placed first in the Middle School State Tournament in Devens on Sunday and are the new state champions.
UMass hockey: Minutemen announced 3 incoming recruits including Longmeadow’s Coleson Hanrahan
Legion baseball preview: Belchertown Post 239 eyes District 3 three-peat, Northampton Post 28 geared for success
Div. 4 Track & Field: Amherst girls cement place in history, capture first-ever state title
Hadley’s Jake Smith, Hatfield’s Lucy Hoyt earn Athletic Leadership Award at Williston’s Spring Athletics AssemblyOpinion
Guest columnist Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell: Know your rights when it comes to ICE
Over the past few weeks, our office has heard growing concern about immigration enforcement happening across Massachusetts. Families are being separated. Parents are being arrested in front of their kids. People are being pulled out of their cars in broad daylight. Even ICE admits that many of those arrested have not committed any crime.
Columnist Johanna Neumann: Let Americans choose clean energy
Emmett Barcalow: Trump, Harvard and international students
Guest columnist John Carney: Massachusetts needs its own Medical Aid in Dying legislation
Guest columnist Nancy E. Grossman: A year after UMass’ mass arrests, the damage lingers
Arts & Life
Fabric of history: PVMA painting included in the Met’s ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ exhibition
As the national art and celebrity worlds coalesced at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Met Gala in early May, the exhibition coinciding with the event at the nation’s most-visited museum also featured several local ties.
‘My heart requires it’: Pioneer lesbian singer-songwriter Linda Shear will perform benefit show in Northampton, May 31
‘Irving Berlin’s View of East River’ films in western Mass: Behind the scenes of an indie film set in the Valley
In heavenly harmony: The Singing Priests to perform at Our Lady of Peace in Turners Falls, May 22
Speaking of Nature: Celebrating 28 years of Speaking of Nature: A new resolution for the future of my bird-watching