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By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Local author, naturalist and former boxer Vanessa Chakour is leading a women’s boxing class at Franklin County’s YMCA.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

CHARLEMONT — Facing a potential shutdown by the Board of Health for a lack of reliable access to heating and a kitchen for tenants, Oxbow Resort owner Travis DeCere shared the upgrades he has made to the Route 2 property.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — The Board of Health may be forced to shut down the Oxbow Resort, the split property offering traditional motel rooms and longer-term month-to-month apartments for rent, if the owner is unable to make upgrades that give tenants reliable access to heat and a kitchen soon.

By SHERYL HUNTER

Singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg has never been afraid to take risks in his over 25-year career. In addition to writing honest folk-rock songs that connect with listeners, he is a natural storyteller, which has led to him giving a TEDx Talk, writing...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — A Florida real estate agent turned hotelier is looking to help address the region’s housing needs by redeveloping a vacant motel on Route 2 into affordable apartments.Travis DeCere of Cape Coral, Florida, is renovating the former Oxbow...

By SHERYL HUNTER

Stephanie Marshall, Katie Clarke and Jenny Goodspeed formed the Boxcar Lilies back in 2009, drawn together by their shared love of three-part harmony and roots music. Accompanying themselves on guitar, claw hammer banjo, electric bass, and washboard,...

By JIMMY GOLEN

BOSTON (AP) — Luis Tiant, the charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and himself to the doorstep of the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 83.Major League...

By JEFF LAJOIE

A quarter century of competition will be celebrated this weekend at the Country Club of Greenfield, as host CCG will tangle with Crumpin-Fox Club in the 25th annual Franklin Cup.The yearly event, which alternates between the two clubs, will hold two...

By LUCY POSTERA

GREENFIELD — Vanessa Chakour didn’t always want to be a boxer. If you asked the Amherst native what she wanted to be when she grew up she may have said a National Geographic photographer, an author or an illustrator, but never once did being a...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

Nine-year old little leaguers batting against Holyoke Hospital in the early 2000s faced an impossible situation.Hit the ball to second base, and it was vacuumed up by Isan Diaz, who debuted for the Miami Marlins in 2019 and played four seasons in the...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

HOLYOKE – Tammy Campbell has three kids of her own, but this past Mother’s Day, she received about 10 “Happy Mother’s Day” texts.Campbell and her family have hosted Valley Blue Sox players at their Greenfield home for four years now, and she said most...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — Area youth baseball players had the chance to learn the game from some of the top collegiate players in the country this week. The Valley Blue Sox of Holyoke held a Greenfield Youth Baseball Clinic on Monday and Tuesday at Lunt Field,...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

When I was a kid, the barn in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Québec where my uncle milked 40 cows was a magical place. I spent hours with adorable kittens and ”lesfilles,” the placid gals whose milk fueled our family farm. Yet one thing made my blood run...

Good morning!Fresh off good reviews in Peoria, the Boston Red Sox returned home this week and got smacked around by their division nemesis the Baltimore Orioles who rolled sevens to beat them in back-to-back games, 7-1 and 7-5.While Boston fretted,...

By JIMMY GOLEN

BOSTON — Larry Lucchino, the force behind baseball’s retro ballpark revolution and the transformation of the Boston Red Sox from cursed losers to World Series champions, has died. He was 78.Lucchino had suffered from cancer. The Triple-A Worcester Red...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Add another in the long list of accolades for Bernardston’s Crumpin-Fox Club.Golf Advisor, the longtime golf ranking system that now operates under NBC’s Golf Pass umbrella, ranked the top 25 public golf course layouts in the country going into the...

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...