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Guest columnist Stephen Frantz: Stricter regs needed for harmful herbicides

The South Hadley Board of Health has banned the use of glyphosate herbicide by anyone on all town-owned/-operated property. This occurred in March 2020 and was amended in April 2023 to include a related herbicide, glufosinate. The ban is in place as a legal town regulation, but not all departments are aware, nor are all […]

Area Property Deed Transfers, Oct. 16

AMHERST Ziomek Beverly A EST and S Peter Ziomek Jr. to Grace FT and Elizabeth L. Grace, 177 Montague Road, $355,000 Amherst Cmnty Homes LLC to Sovann-Malis Loeung, 195 Montague Road, Lot 4A, $275,000 BELCHERTOWN Rama Development LLC to Melissa ONeill, 6 Depot St., $422,000 EASTHAMPTON Clinton K. Chan to 86 Lyman LLC, 17-19 Arlington […]

Making News in Business, Oct. 16

DA Sullivan receives Leadership in Wellbeing award NORTHAMPTON — Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan received the Leadership in Wellbeing Excellence Award from Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers on Oct. 8 at the organization’s annual James A. Brink Dinner at the Harvard Club in Boston. The award recognizes leaders in the Massachusetts legal community who have […]

The mothership has landed: Tilted Orbit brings pinball to Amherst

AMHERST — Pinball machines that are part of one of the largest collections of arcade games in the region line the walls of a new social club opening Saturday in North Amherst’s Mill District. With multicolored lights flashing from them and many emitting various sounds, joined inside by neon signs and neon strips, a disco […]

Mary Susan Wyse

<html><head></head><body>Mary Susan Wyse<br /><br />AMHERST, MA - Mary Heaton Wyse, 86, a longtime resident of Amherst, passed away Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, of complications of Alzheimer's disease.<br /><br />Mary was born in Lafayette Indiana, daug ...