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Regional Tibetan community to mark Dalai Lama's 91st birthday

HADLEY — The 14th Dalai Lama’s 91st birthday, and a premiere of a community documentary, will be celebrated by the Regional Tibetan Association of Massachusetts Monday. Tibetans are gathering at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 120 Russell St., starting at 11 a.m., to culminate the global Year of Compassion that began in July 2025. The celebration will feature […]

Local baseball: Northampton Post 28 comes back to beat Longmeadow Post 175

The Northampton Post 28 Legion baseball team got its revenge against Longmeadow Post 175 in its 7-5 win at Russell Field on Wednesday. Post 28 erased a 5-3 deficit by scoring four runs in the fifth to pick up its sixth win of the season, just two days after a 13-3 drubbing from Post 175. […]

Belchertown traffic stop leads to arbitration win for officer, new POST complaint

BELCHERTOWN — A Belchertown police sergeant has won the removal of part of his discipline stemming from a 2025 traffic stop, but the driver involved says the department failed to fully investigate the incident and has asked the state’s police oversight agency to intervene. A labor arbitrator ruled in May that Sgt. Dennis Fitzgerald acted […]

Witnesses to a nation: Hatfield museum marking graves of 217 people tied to Revolutionary era

HATFIELD — Living until 1847, when she turned 86, Experience Phelps Dickinson’s simple stone at the Hill Burying Ground indicates she was a teenager when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Nearby, the more elaborate gravestones for Obadiah Dickinson, a deacon in town who was 72 in 1776, and for his second wife, Martha Waite […]

A nation at 250: WMass residents reflect on patriotism, division and hope

If America is a melting pot, few couples embody that ideal better than Andres Moya and Ruth Zuraw, who were picking up baby formula at Walmart in Hadley earlier this week. Moya, a nurse, immigrated from Ecuador at age 17 nearly two decades ago. Zuraw, a researcher, is of Polish and Cuban heritage. They met […]