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By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Beacon Street is in line for sidewalk and accessibility upgrades this summer with the help of a $199,000 state grant.The city received the grant from the Massachusetts Office on Disability’s Municipal Americans with Disabilities Act...

By BELLA LEVAVI

GREENFIELD — Indigenous culture and history was on display Saturday as more than 100 people danced together at the Nolumbeka Project’s annual Eastern Woodlands Social Dance at Greenfield Community College.The third annual event, timed to celebrate...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A continued challenge for some prospective students and their families in accessing federal financial aid applications, and a corresponding delay in relaying the information from these forms to colleges and universities, is raising...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — The Hawlemont Regional School District's budget for the next fiscal year, amounting to approximately $1.6 million, will be presented at a public hearing on Thursday at the Hawlemont Gymnasium, starting at 5:15 p.m.The budget reflects a...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

HOLYOKE — Some teams might panic after only scoring 16 points in the first half of a Western Mass. championship game. But when you play defense like the Mahar boys basketball team does, there’s no need to worry. With the Class C title on the...

For the third year in a row, the Franklin Tech girls basketball team stood atop the vocational field in Massachusetts on Sunday.The second-seeded Eagles won their third consecutive MVADA state vocational tournament title, besting top-seeded Upper Cape...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Throughout the season, it’s clear the UMass men’s basketball team has built its identity doing the dirty work. Following several conference matchups over the past month, most coaches took the time to say the Minutemen are the most resilient...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

WESTFIELD — Top-seeded Hoosac Valley was firing on all cylinders early.The Hurricanes hit four 3-pointers in the opening four minutes of the Western Mass. Class D championship game, keeping No. 3 Pioneer off the scoreboard completely while building a...

Seeds for the upcoming state basketball and hockey tournaments were announced on Saturday.Multiple Recorder area schools will be hosting games to kick off the tournaments. The Pioneer and Mahar boys basketball teams both earned top five seeds in the...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s Championship Saturday for two local high school basketball programs.The Pioneer girls and Mahar boys will look to add some hardware on Saturday when they both take the floor to play in Western Massachusetts championship games.The Panthers get a...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Although they would not explicitly commit to fulfilling a funding request for Head Start, two of the most powerful players at the State House indicated Wednesday that funding the early education program is at the top of their priority list in...

By LIESEL NYGARD

ERVING — The former International Paper Mill’s third attempt to find a developer is nearing its deadline, and there’s yet to be interest, while demolition remains “on the table,” according to Town Planner Mariah KurtzThe $1.49 million property at 8...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With the City Council’s approval, the city took its final step Wednesday toward executing its $2 million Environmental Protection Agency grant that will fund the city’s transition to an automated single-stream recycling program.Despite...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The UMass men’s basketball team found a good time to play its best basketball of the season. The Minutemen have won three of their last four contests, with Tuesday’s victory over VCU certainly checking in as one of their best victories of the season....

By CHRIS LARABEE

If you’re from the region, you’ve probably come across the story of the 1704 attack on Deerfield, or, at least one of the many monuments placed around the county commemorating the English colonists.But how much do you really know of this time period,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Food and other necessities can be found at the Goshen General Store on Route 9. For low-income individuals in Goshen and surrounding communities, the Hilltown Food Pantry, at the nearby Town Office Building, distributes food every...

By RICHARD ANDERSEN

Imagine this. It’s 1942. Springtime. The country is in the first of months of a war that is already one of the deadliest catastrophes in world history. By the time it ends in 1945, 30 million people are no longer among the living.You’re 18 years old...

By LIESEL NYGARD

Not only has Greenfield’s Artspace Community Arts Center begun its 50th annual Teen Art Show, but it has also received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that will help support its overall mission. Artspace was one of a...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Traveling around the country on his motorcycle, Lou Wallach sees nature like no one else. Thirteen hanging framed prints and 22 unframed works of Wallach’s black-and-white photography will be on display at Salmon Falls Gallery, located at 1 Ashfield...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Hawlemont Regional School has partnered with Jay Healy of Hall Tavern Farm to establish a wood bank at the elementary school, providing free wood to the broader community."I think this will be a great partnership given what the school...