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By SAMUEL GELINAS
BOSTON — Less than three months after voters rejected a ballot measure to legalize certain natural psychedelic substances and introduce therapeutic care, legislators have filed 10 bills at the start of this legislative session hoping to push the cause forward.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — The city will transform into a “polar playground” for its 103rd annual Winter Carnival from Friday to Sunday.
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — State legislators representing Hampshire and Franklin counties signaled that they were prepared to defend protections for immigrants, the environment and transgender people in Massachusetts as the federal administration under President Donald Trump moves to limit or scrap them.
GREENFIELD — An Enterprise box truck rented from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, sustained significant roof damage Tuesday after reportedly striking a bridge.
By CHRIS LARABEE
WASHINGTON — A South Deerfield resident is trying to get released from pretrial detention after her arrest at the U.S. Capitol for allegedly telling police she wanted to kill top Republicans, including billionaire investor Scott Bessent on the day that the Senate confirmed him as President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, according to documents filed in federal court.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE — A valiant second half effort from the Mahar boys basketball team fell short against Drury on Tuesday.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — Greenfield High School students raised more than $10,500 for Special Olympics Massachusetts as part of the first mobile polar plunge in western Massachusetts.
By SCOTT MERZBACH, ALEXA LEWIS, CHRIS LARABEE and ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
The vague language in the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding prompted “chaos” and “confusion” among organizations dependent upon the trillions of dollars potentially impacted.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — State and local officials are feeling optimistic after a Tuesday afternoon presentation detailing Erving’s planned affordable senior and multi-generational housing project called Evergreen Circle at Care Drive.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
My apologies for running the week five track results yesterday. Here are the local top 10 finishers at the Week 6 PVIAC indoor track meet at Smith College from Sunday:
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — After starting Atlantic 10 play 0-2 and having struggled throughout its non-conference slate, it looked as if the UMass men’s basketball team was headed back toward the bottom half of the league following a promising 20-win season a year ago.
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — Lori Streeter, the Franklin County Jail and House of Correction’s superintendent and special sheriff since 2014, has been chosen to serve as retiring Sheriff Christopher Donelan’s interim replacement starting at the beginning of February.
By BILL DANIELSON
It was a Sunday and a big storm was on the way. The morning was fairly calm, but clouds had moved in and there wasn’t much time before the snow started to fall. In a perfect world I could have simply kicked off my shoes and settled in for a quiet winter morning, but we don’t live in a perfect world. Instead, we live in a world that requires firewood to be moved from time to time, and, like it or not, it was time.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
ROWE — In just nine minutes, Special Town Meeting voters unanimously said “yes” to all five articles on the warrant on Monday, thus approving the purchase of a new police cruiser and a Highway Department truck, along with funding associated with the replacement of the elementary school’s oil tank.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — The Community Preservation Committee heard two separate requests for pickleball courts as it reviews 14 applicants for fiscal year 2026 Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding.
By DR. RUTH POTEE
By GARRETT COTE
SOUTH HADLEY — Entering the fourth quarter trailing by 17, the Frontier boys basketball team saw the writing on the wall. Coming back from that deficit against South Hadley is no easy task, especially on the road in a hostile environment.
The Coaches vs. Cancer basketball game at Turners Falls High School has extra meaning this winter.
By RICHARD FEIN
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — The prosecution spent much of Monday grilling a medical expert called by the defense to testify in the case of Javery Hattat, the Vermont man accused of seriously injuring a Rhode Island family in a head-on crash on Route 2 in Greenfield nearly two years ago.
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