Campus miles, community cause: Running-themed UMass seminar to culminate at Hot Chocolate Run

Captain Jack Musa returns to lead UMass hockey into 2026-27 season

The UMass hockey team will knock out its longest road trip of the 2026-27 regular season when it heads to Colorado College for its first games of the year this Friday and Saturday. Nearly seven months after the Minutemen were eliminated from the Hockey East tournament, and in turn, a NCAA Tournament berth, to eventual […]

Ferry Street closed between Pleasant Street and Emerald Place due to sink hole

EASTHAMPTON — A large sink hole that formed in the middle of Ferry Street Thursday afternoon closed a section of the roadway, spanning from Pleasant Street to Emerald Place. Easthampton Police posted on Facebook about the closure just after 4 p.m. Thursday. The post says crews are on the scene working, asking residents to avoid the […]

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200 years around the table: St. John’s to celebrate its Northampton legacy this weekend

NORTHAMPTON — The St. John’s Episcopal Church orients itself inward rather than upward. The wooden pews and cream arches inside the church on Elm Street turn inward toward the dark wood table draped with forest green and white tableclothes. The large circle around “God’s table,” as the Rev. Anna Woofenden calls it, places the altar […]

AG report details decades of abuse at Fall River, Springfield, Worcester dioceses

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell released a report detailing decades of sexual abuse involving more than 270 Catholic clerics and 944 children within the Fall River, Springfield and Worcester dioceses, while simultaneously calling for legislative reforms to aid survivors.