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H.S. golf: Brayden Fennessy fires one-under par 34, Hampshire takes down Frontier at Cherry Hill

AMHERST — The Hampshire Regional golf team opened its season with a 151-180 win over Frontier Regional in Suburban League play at Cherry Hill Golf Course on Monday. The Raiders (1-0, 1-0) got a 34 (-1) from Brayden Fennessy. The senior had three birdies and two bogeys on the nine-hole course. “You can always clean up bogeys,” Fennessy said. “It’s part of golf. Better chips, better putts. A little bit of everything.” Fennessy injured himself playing hockey last season and missed the golf postseason. He is not partaking in the winter sport this fall and has high expectations for the playoffs. […]

‘It’s just stuff’: Fire took his workshop. Illness took his leg. Neither has stopped Cummington builder Stephen Yoshen

CUMMINGTON — Apparently, you can’t take anything away from a man who sees things — even his own leg — as “just stuff.” The last time the Gazette pulled up to Stephen Yoshen’s home, it was a cold, gray November morning. That visit came mere hours after his workshop and everything in it had been […]

UMass researchers land $1.3M grant to study possible second internal body clock tied to memory

AMHERST —For a decade, University of Massachusetts researchers Margaret Stratton and Eric Strieter have been locked in a friendly rivalry over whose protein is more important. Stratton champions a memory-related enzyme called calcium-dependent protein kinase II (CaMK II), while Strieter favors a family of regulatory proteins called ubiquitin. The debate took a turn when Johnathon […]

Garcia's Mexican Restaurant in downtown Amherst closing after five years; Little Petroni's to open on University Drive

AMHERST — As Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant & Bar, operating from a prominent location at the north end of downtown, closes after five years, a vacant building on University Drive will welcome a new eatery. The 40 University Drive site will become Little Petroni’s, a restaurant specializing in Italian-American classics. It will be run by the […]