Summer sparkles with family vacations, catching up with friends and children enjoying school break. For many farms in the Valley, summer is the peak growing season and also a time of robust ...

Cyndy Sperry with pieces of art floating in Nashawannuck Pond in Easthampton. Sperry, with the help of Joe Keppler, a science teacher at Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School, created the moose ...

Laura Bowman recently opened Violet on Main Street in South Hadley Falls. Inspired by her culinary experiences in California's Napa Valley, the new cafe and wine bar in the old Egg & I spot has become ...

Bruce Weinraub, second from left, poses with Jim Countryman, Erin Harpe, and Jontavious Willis in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Weinraub, a physician who now works as a music venue owner and festival ...

South Hadley, MA – Joan Harp, 92, passed away peacefully on July 6, 2026. Born on November 20, 1933, in St. Louis, Missouri, she was the daughter of the late Carl and Laura Hutchinson. After spending ...

DEERFIELD — Deerfield Academy is no longer admitting day students as the school transitions to a full boarding school, with construction of a new dorm underway. Jessica Day, director of communications ...

AMHERST — Large stretches of undeveloped land set aside decades ago for research parks could instead become apartment buildings and townhouses under a zoning proposal now being explored by the ...

EASTHAMPTON — The City Council is opposing a Verizon cell tower proposed for Cook Road in Southampton, at the Easthampton-Southampton border, after citizens from both communities raised concerns about ...

BOSTON — The House plans to vote Wednesday on a $425.1 million economic development package that carries over some of Gov. Maura Healey’s priorities while adding a slew of new housing- and ...

Lexi Walters Wright, owner of High Five Books, at the store in Florence. Walters Wright has been awarded a 2026 Commonwealth Heroines Award. CAROL LOLLIS / Staff Photo Sign up for the Gazette's ...

It is another lazy, too hot and humid summer Sunday, but I am nonetheless energized to submit at least one more guest column to the Daily Hampshire Gazette. My thoughts might have become clouded by my ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA – Robert E. Tacy, 51, of Parsons Street passed away peacefully on Tuesday morning, June 30, 2026, after a brief battle with cancer, surrounded by family. Bob as family and friends knew ...