FLORENCE — In an effort to sway the franchise Friendly’s to begin offering vegan ice cream options, activists with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) parked a refrigerated truck ...

A man believed to be 36-year-old Jonathon Maxwell was found dead along the shoreline of the Connecticut River Tuesday afternoon only three days since he had gone missing. First responders were ...

Leominster, MA – Beverly Jean Durnakowski, 86, passed away peacefully on July 10, 2026, surrounded by the love of her family. She was born on July 12, 1939, in Fair Haven, Vermont, to Jack Grant and ...

NORTHAMPTON — Sufficiency of a process used by the University of Massachusetts to prohibit parking in certain lots prior to football games will likely decide whether a former professor will have to ...

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 ...

Falmouth, ME – Marily Wilson, 88, died July 3, 2026 at Legacy Memory Care in Falmouth, Maine. Marily, named Mary Emily Dwight but only ever known as Marily, was born in Holyoke, Mass., to a newspaper ...

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 ...

Chief Justice of the Land Court Gordon Piper remanded the Planning Board's April 2025 vote to approve the construction of a five-story apartment building in Ward 3 back before the board amid residents ...

THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call reports local representatives’ votes on roll calls from the week of June 29-July 3. $63.4 BILLION FISCAL 2027 STATE BUDGET (H 5555): House 142-6, Senate ...

WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Victor F. Caputo III, of Williamsburg, passed away on Sunday, February 8, 2026, at the age of 45. Born on August 2, 1980, in Northampton, Massachusetts, Vic lived a life marked by ...

AMHERST — A petition is going to University of Massachusetts and Amherst officials recommending they find ways to confront a townwide housing shortage and the existing pressure created by student ...

John and Mary Warren, in their late 70s, moved to Northampton in late 2024 from Jacksonville, Florida, starting over in a community where they had no relatives or adult children, no childhood ...