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Don Puza, longtime Southampton market owner, dies at 82

SOUTHAMPTON - One year during the holiday season, Don Puza, owner of Puza's Pure Food Market, learned that a customer had no family members to help her put up Christmas decorations. Puza immediately stepped up to help, said Vicky Puza-Allen, his daughter."My father came home and said, 'We're all goi...

Northampton PD takes pledge to boost the number of women in its ranks

NORTHAMPTON - The Police Department is the first in the state to sign on to an initiative designed to recruit more women into policing across the country, a move its chief hopes will help the department better reflect the community it serves.The pledge, known as the 30x30 Initiative, aims to make wo...

Video tribute honors late UMass professor Tillis

AMHERST - When Dr. Frederick C. Tillis turned 90 in February 2020, his birthday and long tenure as music professor at the University of Massachusetts and years as Fine Arts Center director were celebrated during a live performance.Less than a month after the third annual Bezanson Legacy Concert, the...

UMass hockey coach Greg Carvel will speak at UMass graduation

AMHERST - UMass hockey coach Greg Carvel will deliver the commencement address at the school's undergraduate ceremonies May 14 at McGuirk Alumni Stadium, the school announced Monday.Carvel led the Minutemen to their first national championship in April. He earned his master's degree in sport managem...

Spring game a culmination for UMass football

AMHERST – UMass' defense tried to ice kicker Cameron Carson before the final play of Saturday's spring game.The Minutemen's offense lined up for a field goal to potentially clinch a victory in the red zone lockout period of the supersized final spring practice at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. It held a si...

Guest columnists Kathryne Young and Elizabeth Gaudet: Put brakes on Warfield project

A few weeks ago, two pieces of paper were taped onto every house door lining Warfield Place, the tiny L-shaped street tucked between Finn and Prospect streets. We discovered ours in the early evening, emerging from several hours of Zoom-induced work stupor. One paper was a letter from the Northampto...

Columnist Joanna Buoniconti: UMass the best school for me

Similar to my peers, when I sit in the socially distanced crowd at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on May 14 and move the gold tassel from the right side of my mortarboard to the left, I am saying goodbye to a chapter of my life. However, unlike the majority of my classmates, it has sometimes seemed like an...

CDH reopens hospital-based urgent care clinic

NORTHAMPTON - Cooley Dickinson Health Care has reopened Urgent Care at its hospital location. The Urgent Care practice, which closed in the spring of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, provides an alternative to Emergency Department visits for illnesses and injuries that are not life-threate...

Hampshire Hope: DART takes national stage

A snippet of video included in our Hampshire HOPE presentation at the 2021 RX Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit drove our point home better than any PowerPoint ever could. Seated at a table was Adam Van Buskirk, a founding officer in the Northampton Police Department's post-overdose response team known...