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Amherst weighs cost of maintaining empty Wildwood School
AMHERST — Amherst is likely to spend more than $200,000 to maintain Wildwood School through next June, covering the costs of heating and electricity, and a full-time custodian, while making some…
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4mUMass men’s basketball: Martin hails 2026-27 roster as ‘most complete team’ during summer session
AMHERST — College basketball is slowly appearing on the horizon, as the UMass men’s basketball team got some work in during an hour-long summer practice at the Champions Center on Monday afternoon. The focus of the practice was introductory defensive principles. The Minutemen return seven players from last year’s team. Five freshman and three transfers […]
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6mA Belchertown librarian who became family
BELCHERTOWN — The Clapp Memorial Library is the home of Jennifer Whitehead. At least, that is what Belchertown’s youngest readers tell their parents. “They just think I live here, and sometimes it feels like I do,” said Whitehead, the town’s Youth Services Librarian. “I’m their connection to the library. They just think this is my […]
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3mWare man convicted on multiple counts of child rape, sexual abuse
NORTHAMPTON — A 53-year-old man from Ware was convicted of 28 counts of rape and child sexual abuse on Monday following a four-day bench trial in Hampshire Superior Court. Hampshire Superior Court Judge Charles Groce III found Angel Ramos guilty of 13 counts of aggravated rape of a child; three counts of forcible rape of […]
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7mEasthampton rent panel nears draft, weighs caps and exemptions
EASTHAMPTON — The city’s Rent Study Committee — a group of renters, landlords and developers — is making progress drafting an Easthampton-specific form of rent stabilization, which aims to provide relief to tenants as rents have skyrocketed. “I was lucky,” Rent Study Committee member and city tenant Carl Sailor said about a rent increase he […]
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7mColumnist J.M. Sorrell: Words that wound
When words are spewed as righteous expressions of justice, the word-giver may feel s/he is excused from accountability even as those words incite others to do harm; however, it is not compassionate to project hyperbolic adjectives sans real knowledge or facts. In today’s era of oversimplification through manipulative slogans and sound bites, harmful actions ensue. […]