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H.S. Roundup: Grace Matyszewski stars for South Hadley girls volleyball, Tigers advance in Class B bracket

The South Hadley girls volleyball team upended Frontier, 3-1, in the Western Mass. tournament Class B quarterfinal on Tuesday. The fourth-seeded Tigers won by set scores of 25-21, 23-25, 25-21 and 25-23 over the fifth-seeded Redhawks. South Hadley’s Grace Matyszewski led the attack, concluding with 15 kills, eight aces and 25 digs. Maya Lamirande also […]

Smith College parents left with few answers after meeting on Fort Hill childcare center closure

NORTHAMPTON — Parents of children at Smith College’s Center for Early Childhood Education at Fort Hill left a Monday night meeting with college human resources officials frustrated, saying their questions about the center’s impending closure went unanswered. Smith College announced last week that it would close the center next June after a century in operation. […]

Lawmakers want MWRA to pull plug on water request

BOSTON — The temperature in western and north central Massachusetts is “red hot” when it comes to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s request to transfer 20 million more gallons of water per day from the Quabbin and Wachusett system, according to a lawmaker who is asking the agency to withdraw its request. Northampton Sen. Jo Comerford […]