After falling short of a state title last season, the Smith Vocational girls volleyball team looks like it’s on another mission this fall. The squad dropped its first match of the season but has built ...

Medusa did not get a good deal. As the Roman poet Ovid tells it, Medusa, a Gorgon in Greek mythology, was sexually assaulted by a god inside the goddess Minerva’s temple. Minerva gave her snakes for ...

The Hatfield Rally House and the National Women's Tennis Organization celebrated their recent partnership during an inaugural Ambassador event on Sept. 20. COURTESY PHOTO Sign up for the Gazette's ...

This sketch shows what a proposed 55-and-over building for Hadley Village Barn Shops site would look like from Route 9. The town's Community Preservation Committee has rejected a $700,000 request from ...

NORTHAMPTON — Senior Sam Busone felt that he and the rest of the Northampton boys soccer team had a lot to prove heading into Tuesday’s home matchup against West Springfield, the defending MIAA ...

Worcester, MA – Richard “Dick” Hood King, 92, passed away peacefully on September 13, 2026, surrounded by family. Born in Boston on January 24, 1934, Dick graduated from Harvard College (1955), served ...

AGAWAM — The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation hopes to raise $25,000 on Friday to put more free books in the hands of young children in western Massachusetts through Dolly Parton’s Imagination ...

BOSTON — Without signals that legislative negotiators are close to agreement on a long-debated energy affordability bill and as some Bay State households get ready to turn the heat back on, Gov. Maura ...

The Granby girls soccer team celebrates after earning a spot in the MIAA Division 5 girls soccer state semifinals after its win against Rising Tide Charter in South Hadley in 2025. RYAN AMES/Gazette ...

Perhaps you’ve been to flea markets, art markets, or antiques markets, but what about an “oddities market?” Market Street Market: A Curiosities Fair, billed as “a one-day marketplace of the macabre ...

As an aging third generation Polish American resident of Northampton, I sense that appreciation of that heritage is on the wane in the public consciousness. October is Polish Heritage Month but I ...

Zohran Mamdani’s election last November triggered an instant backlash of op-eds decrying the rise of a “radical left” within the ranks of the Democratic Party. Abdul El-Sayed’s recent victory in ...