UMass field hockey eyes new challenges in MAC after stellar 2024 season

Gov. Healey stumps in Northampton to discuss affordability, federal cuts ahead of November election

FLORENCE — Meeting with Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra, Sen. Jo Comerford and other supporters, Gov. Maura Healey made her way to the Sip413 Coffee Shop Wednesday morning to discuss food security, housing, federal funding cuts and other issues impacting western Massachusetts and the state at-large. The visit to Paradise City was a stop on Healey’s […]

UMass football: Minutemen continue to fine-tune defensive identity

AMHERST — Practice No. 15 of fall camp is in the books for the UMass football team. The Minutemen finished up a somewhat chippy session at sunny McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Wednesday morning. Linebacker Tyler Martin met with the media following practice. As a redshirt junior, Martin registered 103 tackles last season. He was 31st […]

Guest columnist Philip Lussier: The vanishing security of old age

My wife’s uncles and aunts all lived very comfortable lives. They had nice homes on quiet streets and did the usual modest things, visiting locally and not traveling much, during their retirement years. The uncles had all been World War II vets. They came home from the war and went back to work in the same jobs they’d had in their teens prior to leaving. For all of them it was working at the “shop,” except for one who was employed by the railroad as a freight conductor. The “shop” was the Lamson and Goodnow cutlery. That business still exists but […]

Columnist Johanna E. Neumann: Grassroots action made Amherst’s new school happen

Next week, kindergartners through fifth graders will walk through the doors of the newly constructed Amethyst Brook Elementary School, ushering in a new era of primary education in Amherst. This is the culmination of decades of local engagement worth remembering as we mark this historic milestone.   Teachers and parents knew that the 1970s design of […]

Northampton Planning Board reaffirms 54-unit apartment project approval in Ward 3

NORTHAMPTON — The Planning Board has reaffirmed most of its 2025 approval of a 54-unit apartment building at Phillips Place and Hawley Street, after members conducted a court-ordered review that found the project’s waivers were properly granted — with one exception: the building’s vinyl fencing. The board’s review last Thursday stemmed from an appeal filed […]