Annual wastewater bills for residents will increase from $500 to $525 on July 1, 2026 to prepare for $47.2 million of work on the town’s 46-year-old wastewater treatment system. The Select Board ...

In what might be a record number of applicants, 10 local social service agencies are seeking more than $400,000 in Community Development Block Grant money available from the town. The CDBG Committee, ...

These are tough days for those of us who call ourselves progressives and identify with the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez branch of the Democratic Party. It is hard not to feel depressed ...

During the last minutes of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life on April 4, 1968, he was in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, room 306. That evening, Dr. King and his associates were planning to go ...

Health insurers and providers are debating the proposed prior authorization reforms, with insurers warning of increased costs and providers citing administrative burdens and negative patient outcomes.

John M. Connolly’s Feb. 20 guest column [“A fascist regime?“] discussing fascism and the Trump administration brought to mind a quote variously attributed to Upton Sinclair, H.L Mencken, and Sinclair ...

The town’s voters on Tuesday will decide whether to implement a temporary moratorium on large-scale solar arrays, with four of the 10 articles on the Town Meeting warrant taking up the issue of solar ...

AMHERST — Inclement weather, such as the powerful winter storm that moved through on Monday, means the topping off ceremony for the Jones Library project is being delayed. Originally scheduled for ...

Adelheid von GoelerNorthampton, MA - Adelheid von Goeler, dedicated mother, music teacher and nature lover, died December 22, 2025 in Northampton Massachusetts. She was 88.Adelheid was born in ...

With an emphatic slap of a referee’s hand hitting the mat, Jocelyn Antes of Frontier Regional and Dillon Laffond of Franklin Tech were crowned state champions on Saturday. Both Antes and Laffond won ...

The MIAA state tournament brackets for basketball and hockey were released on Saturday morning and nearly 20 area teams earned the right to compete for a state title. Nine Hampshire County boys ...

The No. 19 UMass hockey team won its first game after a two-week hiatus, defeating New Hampshire 4-0 on Friday night. After ...