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It is going to be a busy and colorful weekend in downtown Springfield.

SOUTH HADLEY — It is curtain call for the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Class of 2026. The 61 graduates took their final bows on the stage of the Academy of Music on Thursday to the roaring applause of their biggest fans — teachers, family and friends. But unlike the encores of their high school performances, […]

AMHERST — The aromas of freshly prepared meals waft through the University of Massachusetts Amherst dining halls, highlighting the wide array of food options available to students prepared by the Dining Services cooks and chefs throughout the day. Yet even though Emma Friedl, who recently completed her freshman year, is a regular at the Worcester […]

NORTHAMPTON — As the City Council approved Northampton’s $152.5 million fiscal year 2027 budget Thursday, Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra reiterated previous warnings that voters will likely have to decide on a Proposition 2½ override next year to maintain services amid rising costs and uncertain state and federal funding. The council approved the spending plan on a […]

A local landmark in Chicopee is reaching a major milestone this weekend.

HOLYOKE — Lyn Horan’s 71-year-old mother, Carolyn Lyons, once dated a 78-year-old man. When Lyons learned he was married, she ended the relationship. “I don’t date married men,” she told him. After making threats, the schizophrenic man showed up at Lyons’ door with a gun. He pressed it to her head and pulled the trigger. […]

Regardless of signs warning people about the new additions, the pattern is still causing chaos.

In response to this incident, the church did not have services last Sunday

The MIAA Meet of Champions kicked off on Thursday at Merrimack College in North Andover and several local outdoor track and field athletes turned in notable performances. Holyoke’s Yasani Thompson had the best finish of area athletes, taking third in the girls 200-meter final. Thompson crossed the finish line in 24.82 seconds. Amherst’s Nico Lisle […]

BELCHERTOWN — Dressed in black caps and gowns with orange tassels, the Belchertown High School Class of 2026 crossed the finish line Thursday in what Principal Christine Vigneux referred to as their “social and educational marathon.” “The road has not always been easy, nor the path clear, but you have run it anyways for more […]

A man accused of the 2022 murder of another man on Longhill Street in Springfield has been found not guilty.                

It was a sign of the times. On a Saturday evening long ago, four of us first-year law school classmates decided mid-Scrabble game that a misspelled word summarily costing you a turn was cruel and unusual and denied due process. So we instituted a new rule: you could play any letters in any order provided you could offer a semi-plausible definition of your alleged word.   Now, a half-century later, there’s Crossplay, the one-on-one, online New York Times Scrabble-like game where, without penalty,