This is the second in a four-part series, “Beginning, Again” about people who moved to this area during their retirement years. Today’s piece is about Kate Hale, now of Easthampton, who lost her ...

Northampton, MA – Peter Martunes Jr. passed away on Friday July 3, 2026 at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. Peter was born on November 10, 1952. Peter had an active childhood and adult life. He enjoyed ...

A sign for a water ban sits along Bay Road in Hadley, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. DANIEL JACOBI II / Staff Photo Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Sign up ...

A historic home at the edge of Amherst center, just steps from the Jones Library, is being converted into three affordable townhouses, with an undeveloped portion of the half-acre site at 174 Amity St ...

Goshen, MA – Jerry J. Bird, 56, of Berkshire Trail West passed away on Thursday, July 9, 2026, while attending a Masonic event in Connecticut, an association very near and dear to his heart. Jerry was ...

A rendering of a proposed two-building, 91-unit affordable housing complex proposed for 33 King St., the old Registry of Deeds site. The Northampton Planning Board approved the project at its meeting ...

The Williamsburg Select Board is considering a request from a resident to silence Haydenville Congregational Church's bell at night. The High Street resident says the hourly ringing keeps family awake ...

I have long known that Northampton’s famous colonial preacher, Jonathan Edwards, was the maternal grandfather of Aaron Burr who was the third vice-president of the United States and is best remembered ...

ORANGE — The Northwestern District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday morning identified the man who died on Sunday afternoon following a skydiving accident at Jumptown Skydiving as Mani Chandra Teja Gaddam ...

HATFIELD, MA – Virginia Lucille “Polly” Wells, 84, passed away peacefully on June 16, 2026, at Linda Manor in Leeds, Massachusetts, with her youngest son by her side. Born on August 19, 1941, in ...

The Northampton Legion Post 28 baseball team is red hot entering the postseason as it won its sixth straight game to close out its regular-season slate with a 2-1 victory over Westfield Post 124 on ...

The board of directors for the Chesterton Academy of Divine Mercy, a new Catholic high school that hopes to open in the fall of 2027 in Hampshire County, include, from left, Jesse Mayhew, chair, ...