Bridging cultures through global rhythms: Turners Falls Mini-Fest unites diverse traditions at Peskeomskut Park

UMass football: Eastern Michigan sinks Minutemen in front of sellout crowd, 38-14

AMHERST — Through four games of the season, opposing defenses had few answers to slow down UMass quarterback Pop Watson. With each week, his decision-making seemed to improve, backed by his 74.0% completion clip and a single interception to his name. Rather than stop the man himself, Eastern Michigan arrived at Amherst in front of […]

Northampton resident takes second place in poetry contest

C. Desirée Finley of Charlemont won first place at the seventh annual Beals Prize for Poetry awards ceremony held at Beals Memorial Library in Winchendon.

Guest columnist Patricia Crosby: 88 seasons and counting

In 1939, in a community far from recovered from the Great Depression, a group of Greenfield residents banded together, deciding that western Massachusetts needed a symphony orchestra. Only six years earlier, one in 10 people in Greenfield were unemployed, and one in eight were dependent on the welfare department. According to “History of Greenfield, Massachusetts 1930–1953, Vol. IV” by Charles Sidney Severance, “Business and commercial life was almost at a standstill … lines were a block long … on Court Square, as unemployed by the hundreds… sought the meager food and clothing available.” But now it was 1939 and the country […]

Joseph E. Reopel

<html><head></head><body>Joseph E. Reopel<br /><br />Easthampton, MA - Joseph E. Reopel, 90, died on September 27, 2026 at Baystate Medical Center. Born in Northampton on November 8, 1935. He was the son of Roman and Delena Imhoff Reopel . Joe was the ...

Peter Mclean

<html><head></head><body>PETER MCLEAN<br /><br />Worthington, MA - Peter Charles McLean, 90, of Worthington, died peacefully on Saturday, September 26, 2026, in Northampton, surrounded by family and friends.<br /><br />Born July 12, 1936, in Holyoke, ...