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By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Through about 13 minutes of action, it looked as if the UMass men’s basketball team was going to do something very few teams have done all season: shut down Davidson forward Reed Bailey, who leads the Atlantic 10 in points per game (20.0) this year.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
GILL — There were no injuries after a fire damaged the inside of a locker room at the McCollum Hockey Arena at Northfield Mount Hermon School Wednesday night.
By SHERYL HUNTER
Combine John Sheldon’s extraordinary guitar playing with the powerful words of Beat Poet Laureate Paul Richmond and Tony Vacca’s excellent percussion skills, and you have the makings for a special night of words and music.
By DOMENIC POLI
WENDELL — Cleanup has begun at the site of a freight train derailment that sent 15 railroad cars carrying non-hazardous merchandise off the tracks Tuesday afternoon.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — Dan Miner, who serves as the school resource officer at Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School, is leaving the school temporarily, along with comfort dog Mack, due to staffing shortages within the Montague Police Department.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
WENDELL — No injuries were reported after a freight train carrying merchandise derailed in Wendell Tuesday afternoon, knocking 15 railroad cars off the track, according to Wendell Fire Chief Joe Cuneo.
3:23 p.m. — Reporting party states a vehicle was driving recklessly, almost causing multiple collisions. Vehicle turned onto the Turners Falls-Gill Bridge heading into Turners Falls, but the reporting party stayed on Route 2. Referred to an officer.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and DOMENIC POLI
TURNERS FALLS — After emergency personnel responded to a report of someone calling for help, searches of the power canal along Depot Street on Monday and Tuesday did not locate anyone, according to Turners Falls Fire Chief Todd Brunelle.
By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD — The public is invited to the Garden Cinemas Thursday evening for the premiere of “Rethinking Recovery,” a documentary that Four Rivers Charter Public School’s senior class has been working to produce for the past five months.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — Months after former Deputy Police Chief William Gordon’s retirement in November, Chief Todd Dodge has selected Lt. Christopher Greene, who has served in the department for more than 30 years, as its next deputy chief.
By LIESEL NYGARD
Two Franklin County towns are each receiving a $15,000 grant as part of a program that trains town officials on how to engage in public art projects most effectively.
By SAM DRYSDALE
BOSTON — Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey recently signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld a 2022 Hampshire County Superior Court ruling that found former Police Chief Robert Haigh Jr. and the Police Department racially discriminated against former Officer Patrick Buchanan.
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — It’s become almost normal at this point. In recent memory, any time the UMass men’s basketball team starts to play well and garners attention from the fan base, it seemingly finds a way to let them down. Such was the case on Tuesday night in front of a season-high 3,745 fans at Mullins Center as the Minutemen fell 73-71 to Saint Louis with third place in the Atlantic 10 on the line.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — Three Erving police officers and a mental health clinician with Clinical & Support Options (CSO) have been formally commended for their lifesaving actions in two different incidents involving suicidal individuals at the French King Bridge.
3:44 p.m. — Reporting party from East Main Street states her upstairs neighbor has been blaring music for four days and she has been hitting the ceiling with a broom and they won’t turn it down. Quiet upon officer’s arrival.
Best and Brightest Award — Greenfield Housing Authority.
By DOMENIC POLI
NEW SALEM — The attorney representing the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art’s owners hopes to meet with some of the institution’s abutters to hash out differences as he works to secure site plan approval for this clients.
11:10 a.m. — Caller in the area of Newton and Bridge streets reports he was buying a car from someone and the man gave him fake paperwork, then ran off on foot with the money. Reporting party was chasing him and ended up on someone’s property. The property owner then came outside and assaulted him for being on his property. The vehicle he was supposed to purchase is parked on Newton Street. Officer stopped a white pickup truck that was about to leave the scene on Franklin Street and got more of the story from the driver. Male party was advised of his options.
1:21 p.m. — Disturbance reported at Green Fields Market on Main Street. Services rendered.
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