AMHERST — A partnership between the University of Massachusetts and a private developer to rehabilitate existing dormitories and build new on-campus student housing is raising concerns for town ...

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DEERFIELD — Following the death of lifelong South Deerfield resident David White last month, Fred Beckta and Alex Herchenreder are making sure that his legacy of honoring local veterans continues.

AMHERST — Private wells will get the same protections as public drinking water supplies from construction of solar arrays and installation of battery energy storage systems in Amherst’s bylaw that ...

Construction workers dig along North Elm Street in Northampton last Thursday. DANIEL JACOBI II / Staff Photo ...

I can just hear my “friends” — and many others for that matter — saying, “Finally, it took him 81 years to recognize what we’ve all known for a very long time, and have often told him so to his face.” ...

NORTHAMPTON — As the city weighs whether to implement a year-long moratorium on the development of commercial data centers, the City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to form a 10-person committee ...

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ASHFIELD — No one was injured on Saturday evening after 150 bales of hay on a trailer caught fire on Cape Street (Route 112), which the fire chief advises was likely caused by sparks created by a ...

At an annual luncheon in Amherst on Friday to honor first responders on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Sen. Jacob Oliveira said he continues to seek changes in the state's Heart Law adopted in 1950.

Guest columnist Dan Ordorica, the chair of the Amherst Democratic Town Committee, writes in the Aug. 26 Gazette [“The case for partisanship“] that the declining share of voters enrolled and engaged in ...

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