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By GARRETT COTE

GREENFIELD — Make it nine wins in a row for the Belchertown Post 239 Senior American Legion baseball team, as it scored four runs in the first inning and never looked back en route to an 11-3 victory over Greenfield Post 81 on Tuesday evening at Vets Field.

By JEFF LAJOIE

A dominant effort in the championship game propelled the Valley Storm 14U Black softball team to a title at the Greylock Thunder Summer Storm Tournament over the weekend in North Adams.

By JEFF LAJOIE

A dream summer continued for the Greenfield 8U All-Stars on Monday night.

By RYAN AMES

All things are not quiet within UMass athletics’ new conference home.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Greenfield’s Toby Campbell and his friends were trying to figure out ways to have fun this summer.

By RYAN AMES

Medals were abundant for area athletes over the weekend during the Bay State Games competition, as all five West teams that competed finished with some hardware to take home.

By JEFF LAJOIE

Andy Lesenski’s dominance continued over the weekend.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has agreed to take on the cleanup of contaminated soil on First Street that has delayed the development of six affordable homes by Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Hunter Donahue and Hayden Girard each cracked two hits as the Greenfield Post 81 Junior Legion squad improved to 11-1 on the season with a 13-6 victory victory over Belchertown on Thursday at Vets Field.

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPDEN — After shaking hands with his opponent, Woodland Golf Club’s Patrick Kilcoyne, on the 12th green, Ryan Downes hopped on the back of a golf cart and took the long ride up toward the clubhouse with his caddie — the two all smiles.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Just like their counterparts in Orange, the Athol girls basketball team will have a new coach next winter.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Four Franklin County authors have been nominated for the 2025 Mass Book Awards. 

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The semifinals and championship match of the 92nd Massachusetts Girls Amateur Championship took place on Thursday at Crumpin-Fox Club, with Westford’s Maddie Smith taking home the title.

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPDEN — The hometown kid has a chance to make history at the 117th Massachusetts Amateur Golf Championship — again.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

DEVENS — The West softball team is leaving the Bay State Games with a gold medal for the second straight year.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The Western Massachusetts Soccer Officials Association is seeking new referees for the upcoming fall season. WMSOA members officiate private and public school soccer matches in Hampshire and Franklin County.

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPDEN — The grueling third day of competition at GreatHorse is over, and Thursday’s quarterfinals are now set.

By RYAN AMES

MALDEN — Several area high school baseball players captured the silver medal in the 2025 Bay State Games Baseball Showcase tournament at Rotondi Field at Howard Park on Wednesday. The West team fell to Central, 10-1, in the Gold Medal game, which wrapped up competition of the three-day event.

By GARRETT COTE

BERNARDSTON — The pressure of playing in her first-ever Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship didn’t seem to bother Granby’s Ryley Regan, as the eighth grader who plays on the Hopkins Academy golf team cruised to a 3-up start through five holes.

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPDEN — As the Country Club of Greenfield’s Cody Booska stepped to the tee box on the 14th hole (his fifth of the day after starting on No. 10), he turned to his dad, Dennis, who was caddying for him, and asked, “Where’s Brady?”

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPDEN — Thirty-six holes weren’t enough to decide which 32 golfers were going to make Wednesday’s match play in the 117th Massachusetts Amateur Championship at GreatHorse. After Monday and Tuesday’s first two rounds, 24 players were safely inside the 6-over par cut line while 10 players were tied at that number.