After beginning at a bakery, working as a case manager and pivoting to elder care, Melanie Young — a former Greenfield resident now living in West Springfield — is ready for a new challenge. “I’m ...

SPRINGFIELD — Fewer baptisms, weddings and churchgoers, along with a shrinking number of priests and rising deaths and funerals, are prompting the Diocese of Springfield to rethink how it serves ...

SOUTH HADLEY — A 19-year-old man from Chicopee riding an electric scooter home from work Monday night died of injuries suffered when he was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Hollywood and ...

Grayson Hawthorn, a Smith College graduate and archivist for the town of Cummington, holds a copy of Gustav Wolf's illustrated Book of Job. Wolf was one of 39 refugees who stayed in a hostel in town ...

When are you opening? Sam Coates-Finke and Ana Valle have heard that question over and over since they bought the former Hungry Ghost Bread space at 62 State St. last December from Jonathan Stevens ...

AMHERST — A year after voting to unionize, part-time tour guides and educators at the Emily Dickinson Museum, who throughout the spring, summer and fall are leading visitors through the historic homes ...

Tom Kane, a employee of Park Hill Orchard in Easthampton, picks peaches Wednesday afternoon. "This is my favorite thing to do here. Last year when we got to pick peaches it was like a special day. The ...

NORTHAMPTON — When primary care physician Dr. Kate Atkinson goes to reunions, she’s usually met with this question from her peers: “Are you still practicing?” And to their surprise, she still is, ...

AMHERST — Closed to swimming for the past two weeks due to high levels of E. coli bacteria, Puffer’s Pond is unlikely to reopen as a place for people to cool off this summer, according to town ...

Now, I am no fan of JK Rowling, the British author of the Harry Potter series. She has spent the last decade and a whole bunch of money vilifying transgender women and claiming that they are a threat ...

A woman walks past the State Center for Standardization, Metrology and Certification, destroyed in a combined Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Aug. 11. Overnight, Russian forces launched a ...

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