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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Smithland Pet & Garden Center is closing all 13 of its locations, including stores in Northampton and Hadley.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

Northampton author Joshua Shanley says he gets a scary feeling when entering some of the defunct Cold War buildings still standing across Massachusetts.

By CAROLYN BROWN

One of this year’s biggest Hampshire Pride sponsors is a local company that’s giving the festival plenty of dough – in more ways than one.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A restructuring of the progressive New College of Florida by that state’s Republican leadership in 2023 prompted Hampshire College to offer students there a respite and opportunity to continue their studies in Amherst.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — When Kara McElhone, executive director of child welfare nonprofit Children’s Advocacy Center of Hampshire County, searched in vain for a satellite office in Belchertown, Police Chief Kevin Pacunas personally helped her locate a place to rent.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to terminate a $3.4 million allocation to Massachusetts for purchase of 121,830 cases of food items, including eggs, chicken, milk, fruit, pasta, beans and salmon for food banks across the state is being criticized by representatives of food security organizations and the Healey-Driscoll administration.

By CAROLYN BROWN

K and E Theater Group’s coming production of the Tony Award-winning rock musical “Spring Awakening” will be at 33 Hawley in Northampton the weekends of March 28-30 and April 3-5.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Visitors from Lexington and Marblehead were among those who came to see “Generic Male,” the off-Broadway physical theater performed at Northampton’s Academy of Music in early March.

By DAVID E. SULLIVAN

The following was excerpted from a talk given by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan at the Northampton St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast at the Hotel Northampton on Monday, March 17.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Ten local high school students will take the stage at the Academy of Music on Saturday, April 5, at 7 p.m. to compete in the third annual Academy Regional Youth Poetry Slam. The event, a competition for young spoken word poets, is the only one of its kind in the Pioneer Valley.

By THE REV. ANDREA AYVAZIAN

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By JOHN PARADIS

By CAROLYN BROWN

The roots music festival Back Porch Festival, which takes place in downtown Northampton, will return for its 11th year from Friday, March 7, through Sunday, March 9, with more than 60 performers.

The current leader is a convicted felon, ultranationalist, anti-communist and anti-foreign, and is ultra pro-business. The current leader wants laws that bypass the Constitution. The current leader encouraged violence to get his way. The current leader believes in spreading lies and hate. The current leader wants to take over other nations.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

The administration of President Donald Trump continues to target transgender individuals through a string of executive orders, with a more recent order likely to not just affect individuals but educational and athletic institutions in Massachusetts.

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

On the second floor of Thornes Marketplace stands what was once a common occurrence in malls across America, but like malls is fading into obscurity with the advent of the digital age.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Nothing could knock down Claudia Quintero on the day she received her green card and work permit at 17 years old — she was too elated to notice anything else.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Jonathan Edwards, one of Northampton’s most famous residents, was a revolutionary preacher whose legacy has endured through centuries. He was the first minister in Northampton to baptize African Americans, yet he did not free those he enslaved. He was a loving husband, yet he supported complementarianism, a theological belief that gender roles are ordained by God. And his work inspired several suicides.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Possible rapid loss of both forests and farms in the Connecticut River Valley, as Massachusetts expedites the process for getting renewable energy projects online, is among concerns being addressed for the region’s rural communities in the new climate and energy state law, according to the local legislators who helped craft the legislation.

Rentheads, rejoice! Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp (who played Roger and Mark, respectively, in the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical) will perform together at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Bowker Auditorium on Friday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Sue Stubbs isn’t afraid of taking risks — in fact, she welcomes it.