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By THOMAS JOHNSTON

TURNERS FALLS — It was another successful meet for the Turners Falls swim team on Tuesday. 

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Down by three with under 15 seconds remaining in the UMass men’s basketball team’s game at Fordham on Jan. 15, the Minutemen needed a 3-pointer to send the game to overtime after being up as many as a dozen earlier in the second half.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Local businesses rallied to help a Shelburne Falls couple whose home caught fire Saturday night, providing them with a place to stay and getting started on repairs, while also providing snacks and drinks for firefighters.

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The required 12 jurors have been selected for the trial of a Vermont man accused of causing a head-on crash on Route 2 that resulted in serious injuries to a Rhode Island family of four in 2023, with witness testimony expected to begin Wednesday.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

Gov. Maura Healey announced a plan Tuesday to pump at least $2.5 billion into facilities at the University of Massachusetts, state universities and community colleges by the middle of the 2030s.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — University of Massachusetts officials acted reasonably and prudently in breaking up pro-Gaza encampments on campus last spring, but different enforcement tactics might have cut down on the number of arrests, as well as reduced the fraying of trust between students, faculty and staff and the UMass administration, according to an independent review released last week.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Police Department has completed renovations to its dispatch center, a roughly two-year-long project that Chief Todd Dodge said was done primarily in-house through the Central Maintenance Department and volunteer work.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

As the organization explores a new assessment model amid regionalization, the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget for Northfield EMS is seeing an increase in the contributions paid by the four communities it serves.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — Combining art and activism, the latest Artspace Community Arts Center exhibit aims to explore what the future may hold.

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

NORTHFIELD — After voters shot down a proposal for a public safety complex in May 2023 due to concerns about the burden on taxpayers and wetlands encroachment, the Emergency Services Facility Committee is evaluating plans for a facility on the same property that would only house the Fire Department.

By BILL DANIELSON

Anyone who has ever dabbled in the art of photography will understand that you find yourself at the mercy of your environment. Of course, I am speaking of outdoor photography in this case. Studio photography is an entirely different organism because in that particular endeavor the art lies in manufacturing an environment. If you are outdoors, however, you have to find ways to make due with what you’ve got on any particular day.

By TINKY WEISBLAT

A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to bring something sweet to a meeting. The meeting took place on our National Day of Mourning for the late President Jimmy Carter so I decided to make something with peanuts or peanut butter. Carter was a peanut farmer before he went into politics.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — After a nine day break from game action, it wasn’t the return to the ice the Greenfield hockey team hoped for on Monday. 

By ZEKE MILLER,CHRIS MEGERIANand MICHELLE L. PRICE

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president Monday, returning to power with a promise to end America’s decline and to “completely and totally reverse” the actions of the man who drove him from office four years ago.

It was a successful tournament for the host Franklin Tech wrestling team over the weekend.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — People were encouraged to band together and weave a tapestry of local resilience, as they work toward a stronger community during Greenfield Community College’s 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.

By JAMIE ROWEN

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

COLRAIN — Town officials are preparing to update the town’s master plan that will outline their goals for municipal facilities, services, infrastructure and economic development for the next decade.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — For its work in closing the digital divide in Franklin County and the North Quabbin, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance has named the Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) a 2024 Digital Inclusion Trailblazer.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection awarded the Lunt Neighborhood Action Group $20,000 in Technical Assistance Grant funding as it continues its work to study the former Lunt Silversmiths site’s contamination by the toxin trichloroethylene (TCE).

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A nonprofit that provides court-mandated supervisory services for families entangled in the legal system has expanded its program into the western half of Massachusetts, including Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties.