NORTHAMPTON — An ideological battle is raging between Northampton residents who believe the $43.3 million downtown overhaul known as Picture Main Street will poison the city, and those who see it as a ...

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DEERFIELD — Following the death of lifelong South Deerfield resident David White last month, Fred Beckta and Alex Herchenreder are making sure that his legacy of honoring local veterans continues.

Construction workers dig along North Elm Street in Northampton last Thursday. DANIEL JACOBI II / Staff Photo ...

AMHERST — Private wells will get the same protections as public drinking water supplies from construction of solar arrays and installation of battery energy storage systems in Amherst’s bylaw that ...

AMHERST — A new Department of Public Works headquarters would provide almost triple the room available in the existing building, based on a space program consultants developed from a needs assessment ...

At an annual luncheon in Amherst on Friday to honor first responders on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Sen. Jacob Oliveira said he continues to seek changes in the state's Heart Law adopted in 1950.

I can just hear my “friends” — and many others for that matter — saying, “Finally, it took him 81 years to recognize what we’ve all known for a very long time, and have often told him so to his face.” ...

The University of Massachusetts is launching a $120 million Future of Food initiative, anchored by a new 36,000-square-foot research center pictured in this rendering. UMASS AMHEREST rendering Sign up ...

Guest columnist Dan Ordorica, the chair of the Amherst Democratic Town Committee, writes in the Aug. 26 Gazette [“The case for partisanship“] that the declining share of voters enrolled and engaged in ...

Tucson, AZ – William (“Bill”) David Madara, 76, died September 1, 2026 in Tucson, AZ. He was born on October 7, 1949 in Erie, Pennsylvania, the oldest of eleven children of the late William and ...

Plans to redevelop the former Kmart Plaza in Holyoke with a proposed Walmart Supercenter are moving forward. CAROL LOLLIS / Staff Photo Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential ...