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By ANITA WILSON

You may have received gift cards as presents this holiday season, or you may have some tucked away in a drawer or in your wallet for safe keeping. They are so prevalent that almost half of all adults have at least one gift card, and the combined total...

By DOMENIC POLI

NEW SALEM — There are four articles on the warrant for the Feb. 1 Special Town Meeting to address three unpaid bills and a school bus contract.The first article pertains to the proposed five-year contract with F.M. Kuzmeskus for school transportation...

By VIRGINIA RAY

MONTAGUE — The town is one step closer to seeing a 3,200-square-foot mural painted on the east exterior wall of the Shea Theater Arts Center now that the Selectboard unanimously approved a contract with Common Wealth Murals LLC, a Springfield-based...

By VIRGINIA RAY

MONTAGUE — Residents will have a chance to weigh in on a Community Solar Action Plan and solar energy possibilities for the future during a town-wide forum being planned for the spring.Energy Committee Co-Chairs Sally Pick and Tim Van Egmond met with...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Despite Berkshire East Mountain Resort attracting thousands of out-of-towners every winter, and Zoar Outdoor and Crab Apple Whitewater bringing people in during the summer, entrepreneurs in the commercial district say owning a business...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The second annual state budget bill from Gov. Maura Healey proposes $58.15 billion in total spending, suggesting comparably modest growth over prior years, and a bevy of cost-control maneuvers in an attempt to navigate an increasingly...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — For the first time in four years there is a contested race in the Orange town election — two, in fact.Three people are running for a pair of three-year Selectboard seats while another three are vying for a couple of two-year spots on the...

By GARRETT COTE

A couple weeks ago, I sat inside Smith Academy’s Sherry Webb Gymnasium in Hatfield to cover a girls basketball game between the Falcons and Duggan Academy of Springfield. As the game progressed, the displeasure from supporters only grew louder – and...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Sebastian Garro has been playing golf since he was 5 years old. He never could have imagined when all that practice would pay off. Garro — an eighth grader at Bement School in Deerfield — attended the UMass men’s basketball game against South Florida...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HAWLEY — In the wake of Adams Ambulance having its operating license suspended by the state Department of Public Health, Hawley has been left without a primary ambulance provider and will be covered by Shelburne Falls EMS through mutual aid.This...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — A reception set for Friday afternoon will mark the beginning of a Wendell Meetinghouse exhibit featuring 40 enlarged front pages of the Wendell Post, a volunteer-driven newspaper published from 1977 and 2001.The event, which is scheduled for...

By PAUL FRANZ

MONROE — Firefighters from North Adams to Greenfield and numerous towns in between helped quell a stubborn three-alarm fire at 117 Readsboro Road on Wednesday morning.At least a dozen fire departments battled the blaze in a building that housed two...

Here we are skirting along into the last week of January and I’m just getting my 2024 resolutions in under the wire before we say goodbye. Illness, and eventually COVID, have kept me down this month. Plus, the recent illness and passing of my dear...

By SHERYL HUNTER

With a new year comes new music, and 2024 looks like it will be an excellent year for both recordings and live music. Now that the holidays are over, some local musicians have dropped new singles in recent weeks as they gear up for full-length...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Gov. Maura Healey joined eight counterparts from other states in a new plea for federal immigration action, including funding to support states that have spent billions of dollars placing new migrant arrivals into emergency shelters.Nine governors,...

By BELLA LEVAVI

MONTAGUE — The town will receive a $94,668 bill in overage charges from Erving, which processes sewage for Millers Falls, after historic rainfall in 2023 resulted in rainwater infiltrating the processing system. “It was expected, but this much over...

By MARY BYRNE

It isn’t in my nature to be the news, so I’ll keep this short.Nearly four years ago, I arrived in Greenfield just as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the region. I knew nobody, and frankly, having grown up in eastern Massachusetts, I knew very...

By DOMENIC POLI

ERVING — The first three articles on the warrant for the Jan. 31 Special Town Meeting involve measures necessary for a reconstruction project slated for Bridge Street.The warrant’s second article pertains to taking by eminent domain 4,749 square feet...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Heartbreak struck the UMass men’s basketball team for the second time in three games on Tuesday night at the Mullins Center.Clinging to a one-point lead with 12.5 seconds left after Rahsool Diggins’ acrobatic layup put the Minutemen ahead,...

It always seems to be a close game when the Greenfield and Frontier boys basketball teams meet, and Tuesday was no different. The Green Wave held a 32-27 lead at the half, took a 48-43 lead after three quarters and pulled away in the fourth quarter to...