Earth Matters: What, who lies beneath the dog park: Exploring Northampton’s Cemetery Hill, its legacy

My Turn: Fifth Column… for Palestine

Nothing warms the heart of a parent more than witnessing their child study a modern-day heroine. In recent weeks, my youngest child has been finalizing her middle school year by researching the celebrity-activist Greta Thunberg. Now, as you can imagine, the opportunity to clarify the underlying realities we silently exist in was not something I […]

MIAA baseball: Keefe Tech eliminates Greenfield in Div. 5 Round of 16

GREENFIELD — Everything ganged up on Greenfield early in Wednesday’s MIAA Division 5 Round of 16 baseball tournament game: mistakes in the field, mistakes on the basepaths, and most of all, the constant pressure applied by the visitors from Keefe Tech. The Broncos from Framingham scored twice in the first inning and added four more runs […]

MIAA Roundup: Frontier Regional falls to West Bridgewater in Div. 5 Round of 16

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The fourth-seeded Frontier Regional softball team could not get past No. 13 West Bridgewater in the MIAA Division 5 state tournament Round of 16 on Wednesday afternoon. The Redhawks lost to the Wildcats, 6-4, at warm and sunny Zabek Field. Frontier had a three-run lead but a sixth inning rally by the […]

My Turn: The neighbor everyone loved

Bernardston, Massachusetts is a small town known for its sense of family. It has a reputation of “Taking care of its own.” It has a population of about 2,100 until last week when it lost one its greatest citizens. Eddie was the kind of guy that heard about a breakfast place being robbed and showed […]

Killer of Orange teen gets 27 years to life

KEENE, N.H. — A Swanzey, New Hampshire teen has been sentenced to 27 years to life in prison, nearly a year after fatally shooting 17-year-old Orange resident Christian Walker in the Riverside Plaza parking lot on Winchester Street in Keene. Thomas Pickford, 18, appeared in Cheshire County Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon, when he waived […]