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Vexed Easthampton Housing Authority residents look to organize

EASTHAMPTON - Residents who live in six Easthampton Housing Authority properties will soon decide whether to form a tenants organization to represent them - a move that, if successful, would be the first such organization formed since the housing authority was established in 1948.The effort is being...

Protesters in Amherst rally for peace - and an end to nuclear weapons

AMHERST - Joining millions of people around the world who have condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, attendees at an Amherst rally this weekend called for an end to the war and also spoke to the renewed fears of nuclear weapon use that the conflict has raised.Dr. Ira Helfand of Northampton, who ha...

'Life is meant to be lived': Community turns out to celebrate Margaret Mohr's 101st birthday

EASTHAMPTON - With horns honking, sirens blaring and a hubbub of laughter and shouts, members of the community helped ring in one city woman's 101st birthday. Margaret "Marge" Mohr turned 101 years young on Friday but was celebrated by friends and family as well as state and local officials on Satur...

An artistic second wind: Peter Knapp tackles life changes and crises through his art

Back when he was a student in the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the late 1960s/early 1970s, Peter Knapp imagined he might have a career as an artist. He studied woodcuts, drawing and painting and, after graduating from UMass in 1972, had a studio for some time in Florence.Knapp never quite...

Natalie Stott's shutout delivers Williston girls hockey 1st NEPSAC championship (PHOTOS)

EASTHAMPTON – Natalie Stott let herself believe at the 2-minute mark.The top-seeded Williston girls hockey team held a two-goal lead over No. 2 Noble and Greenough, which hadn't lost in three years, in Sunday's NEPSAC championship game at Lossone Rink. She knew she wasn't going to give up two goals...

Guest columnist William Ryan: Corporate Greenwashing on the Connecticut River

Greenwashing is when an environmentally destructive company attempts to appear sustainable in the media. Despite self-proclaimed concerns about the environment and climate change, greenwashed corporations rely on a capitalist economic system that is at the origin of the climate crisis.FirstLight Pow...

Earth Matters: What does it mean for a species to be rare?

Several summers ago, my wife and I visited the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada in search of wildflowers.We were well rewarded by fields of prairie smoke flowers and forest carpets of white trillium, and then saw something quite unexpected. Along the road to a campground in the Bruce Peninsula Nat...

Noah Fernandes' 28 points help UMass basketball best George Mason in OT for regular season finale

Matt McCall broke out his dancing shoes.Surrounded by players that he won't be leading next year, the UMass men's basketball team's lame duck coach kicked his feet and swung his arms as Rich Kelly dumped a water bottle on him. The Minutemen circled around him clapping and mirroring as McCall – a 40-...