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By THOMAS JOHNSTON

TURNERS FALLS — Turners Falls softball coach Gary Mullins knew his team would be facing tough pitchers throughout the year. Taking on one of them in Franklin Tech’s Hannah Gilbert Friday, the longtime coach was proud of the way his players handled the pressure at the plate. 

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

When Gary Mullins took over the Turners Falls softball program in 1979, he was inheriting a team devoid of much success. 

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Those attending a recent ribbon-cutting for the new UMass Downtown retail store and event space in Amherst center were invited to an afterparty at the Uptown Tap & Grille, which despite having a seemingly different geographical designation, is a neighboring business in the same building.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — While no ban on motorboats on Lake Wyola is being contemplated, a serious accident that injured a boater last June has prompted a review of the current bylaw governing use of the 128-acre body of water, which some residents say should be modified to enhance safety, while others say safety is largely a matter of personal responsibility.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

It wasn’t until 1995 that women were permitted to join the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE), a century-old fraternal and charitable organization with local lodges across the United States. Thirty years later, the Montague Elks Lodge #2521 is entering a new era of leadership with women at the helm of the 50-year-old lodge.

By CAROLYN BROWN

The total impact that humans have had on the environment may be hard to measure, but a new exhibition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, running through Friday, May 9, aims to show some of that impact and create conversations about how artists respond to it with their work.

By CAROLYN BROWN

It’s not uncommon for a small nonprofit not to have a physical space. It is, however, ironic when that nonprofit itself is called Human Scale Art Space.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Selectboard voted unanimously this week to offer its part-time community development director job to Tracy Murphy, the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission’s senior planner.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

COLRAIN — Tarpon Towers and Verizon have made it over the first hurdle to constructing a 125-foot cell tower on Call Road.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The Pioneer and Greenfield baseball teams took different paths to the MIAA Division 5 semifinals last spring. 

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The owners of Salvadoran restaurant Cocina Lupita are seeking the community’s support to help fuel their goal of opening a second location in Turners Falls this May.

By RYAN AMES

The departures keep on coming for the UMass hockey team as juniors Cole O’Hara and Kenny Connors and sophomore Aydar Suniev decided to turn pro and sign NHL contracts this week.

By DOMENIC POLI

Local DJ Robert “Bobby C” Campbell is soliciting donations for his ninth annual Franklin County TRIAD Hams for Seniors drive.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Franklin County activists are joining counterparts in all 50 states with standouts that are intended to send a message to President Donald Trump and his administration: take their hands off American jobs, health care and social services.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A renowned expert on the Middle East will visit western Massachusetts next week for a pair of speaking engagements to discuss the situation in Palestine and her new book.

By RYAN AMES

Amherst native and former Boston College hockey star Ryan Leonard helped the Washington Capitals defeat the lowly Boston Bruins, 4-3, during his NHL debut Tuesday night at the TD Garden.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

TURNERS FALLS — The Turners Falls baseball team refused to go away against Franklin Tech on Tuesday in both teams’ season openers. 

By RYAN AMES

UMass hockey head coach Greg Carvel is already hard at work assembling the 2025-26 Minutemen roster.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Northwestern District Attorney’s Anti-Crime Task Force and Greenfield Police arrested Greenfield residents Amber Judd, 38, and Tony Carr, 48, on cocaine trafficking charges following a drug bust at Heather Court and Harrison Avenue Tuesday morning.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — A 10-week investigation into a relationship between a school resource officer/teacher and an 18-year-old student at Mohawk Trail Regional School by the Berkshire County district attorney’s office has determined the officer and student “were involved in a relationship beyond that of a teacher/student,” but that there was no criminal violation.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — There are times when a head coach does everything they can to put their team in the best possible position to win throughout a season and for whatever reason things still don’t work out. It can be recruiting prior to the year, preparation, in-game adjustments, tweaking substitution patterns based on matchups and anything in between.