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By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

AMHERST — Cedar Conrad led the girls lacrosse team into a math classroom on a Wednesday afternoon at Amherst-Pelham Regional High School and started class.Every player took a seat and put their head down on their desk. Then, Conrad and Amherst’s other...

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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Restructuring at Hampshire College will eliminate about 29 non-faculty staff positions, or 9% of the college’s workforce, saving about $2.7 million in operating costs, according to officials at the Amherst campus.“The changes are grounded in...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council agreed Tuesday to amend the annual school budget as suggested by the mayor, putting an end to a long debate over the city’s schools — for now, anyway.The school department will operate under a roughly $40.7 million...

By STEPHEN GROVES

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance has reverberated across the Democratic Party, forcing lawmakers to grapple with a crisis that could upend the presidential election and change the course of American history.The...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

Right before the 4th of July in 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt praised Americans for lending a “neighborly and sympathetic hand” to those in need.In a letter published by newspapers around the nation, Roosevelt wrote about the National War...

By JOE GANNON

What did we learn from the presidential debate we did not know beforehand? Nothing. What has the debate changed? Nothing, other than the sound of Democratic knickers twisting in agony across the nation.President Joe Biden, it turns out, is an elderly...

As in previous years, many of us participated this week in community readings of Frederick Douglass's compelling speech "What to the slave is your Independence Day?" These gatherings are valuable for reminding and inspiring us to re-commit to the...

Happy birthday, Calvin Coolidge, born July 4, 1872Calvin CoolidgeGinger-haired, painfully shynot an athlete, and lacking in social skillsthis Vermont Farmer’s son was a misfiton the campus of Amherst CollegeNo fraternity would have himand they labeled...

Here’s a practical solution to the Democrats’ dilemma that’s based on political realities rather than appeals for the good of the country and preserving dignity. President Joe Biden controls virtually all the delegates to the Democratic convention and...

After watching the presidential debate last week, it is very disheartening to hear political pundits and others call for Joe Biden to drop out of the race for president. Donald Trump spent the whole 90 minutes telling lie after lie, and not one pundit...

Rocky’s Ace Hardware breaks ground in South Hadley SOUTH HADLEY — Rocky’s Ace Hardware held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 19 for a new, expanded store in the South Hadley Plaza at 501 Newton St., which is co-owned locally by the Falcone, Picknelly...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Entering Thornes Marketplace from Main Street and descending down to the first floor, downtown visitors can now find a new option when it comes to vegan, sustainable takeout food, thanks to the opening of the Coffee Counter kiosk. The...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Despite the city previously saying that the ValleyBike Share would restart operations at the end of May, the program has yet to resume throughout the Pioneer Valley, with an updated start date yet to be announced by city officials.On May...

Reparations commission invites residents to its meetings NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Commission On Racialized Harms invites residents to its upcoming meetings in July and August as it continues work on a report due this fall.The next meeting will...

By DOMENIC POLI

DEERFIELD — A Turners Falls man faces various charges, including his third OUI offense, after allegedly driving a vehicle into a River Road house last weekend.Jason E. Tyler, 50, pleaded not guilty in Greenfield District Court on Monday to charges of...

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and HALELUYA HADERO

NEW YORK — Tractor Supply, which operates stores in Southampton, Belchertown and Greenfield, is ending an array of corporate diversity and climate efforts, a move coming after weeks of online conservative backlash against the rural retailer.Tractor...

CHESTERFIELD — The town will host its 77th annual Fourth of July Festival with a pancake breakfast, chicken barbecue, music by the Heritage Pops Orchestra, exhibits, a magic show and the community’s celebrated parade, with marching bands and...

AMHERSTElliott Mary J Est and Marita Banda toDipesh Shrestha and Lilima Shrestha, 170 E. Hadley Road, Lot 15, $315,000Hilda M. Puente to Jessica Muskin-Pierret, 8 Foxglove Lane, $625,000Lorraine W. Desrosiers to Melinda Ann Ewen Vivos T and Melinda...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — About two dozen prostrate protesters lined the sidewalk outside L3Harris for two hours Tuesday afternoon in a “die-in” to protest the company’s contribution to Israel’s war effort in Gaza.Dozens more participated, some holding large...

50 Years Ago ■Massachusetts’ blue spring came to an end Friday afternoon when Gov. Francis Sargent signed the state’s new obscenity statute into law. The Majestic Theater in Easthampton, the only theater that regularly shows “adult” films, canceled...

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