City Council voted unanimously to approve a revised resolution to hold federal immigration enforcement accountable for violating the law Thursday night, prompting wide support from community members ...

BELCHERTOWN — Before Dustin Ruby saw the job posting for a veterans service officer, he had no idea the office existed. As the former deputy director of veteran services in Chicopee, Ruby found his ...

BELCHERTOWN — The race for a Select Board seat in Belchertown is heating up less than a week before the election as the current vice chair of the Finance Committee looks to unseat the Select Board ...

Adele J Barkowski, of Fairway Village in Leeds, passed away peacefully on Monday, May 4, 2026, at the Fisher Home in Amherst with her husband and best friend by her side. Adele was born i ...

Two Proposition 2½ tax-cap overrides, with the larger for $1.5 million to preserve existing staff and programs across town and schools and restore three firefighter positions, received significant ...

WESTHAMPTON — Voters approved the town’s budget for next year with a couple of changes at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting before the unfinished session was continued to June 22, following the town ...

This year marks a 50th anniversary few of us are celebrating — the identification of a new illness (which has probably been around for thousands of years) — Lyme disease. This illness, caused by a ...

Although she was raised in a secular household, the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence’s new settled minister, Rev. Melissa Carvill Ziemer, said she long sought the sense of meaning, ...

An organization led by a Maryland-based philosopher and former presidential candidate is unveiling a five-point plan to reimagine Hampshire College, with a portion of the campus to become the ...

The $61.4 million fiscal year 2027 budget headed to Town Meeting next week saves the schools, but leaves the town’s other center of learning without the same lifeline. In a 3-2 vote, the Select Board ...

Deerfield voters to consider overrides, citizen's petitions and becoming a Climate Leader Community at Annual Town Meeting.

The third annual Kids Lit Fest will return on May 3 for a weeklong celebration of stories with events across Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden, and Berkshire counties. The festival will include storytimes, ...