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By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Through about 13 minutes of action, it looked as if the UMass men’s basketball team was going to do something very few teams have done all season: shut down Davidson forward Reed Bailey, who leads the Atlantic 10 in points per game (20.0) this year.
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — After receiving numerous letters against proposed graduation requirements, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee Tuesday evening tabled a measure that would require students to still pass the MCAS or a similar standardized test to graduate.
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — A Vermont man convicted of causing the crash that severely injured a Rhode Island family in 2023 was sentenced to 4½ years in jail on Tuesday following emotional impact statements from the victims.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
CHARLEMONT — After a stellar regular season, the Mohawk Trail alpine ski team got to shine during the PVIAC Individual Championships on Tuesday at Berkshire East.
By GARRETT COTE
WOODFORD, Vt. — The conditions couldn’t have been better at the 2025 MIAA Nordic Ski Championships Tuesday afternoon, and with the amount of waxing Mohawk Trail head coach Mark Pollard did the night before, his Warriors boys and girls teams could feel a difference immediately as they blazed through the trails at Prospect Mountain.
By CHRIS LARABEE
GREENFIELD — The public is invited to the Garden Cinemas Thursday evening for the premiere of “Rethinking Recovery,” a documentary that Four Rivers Charter Public School’s senior class has been working to produce for the past five months.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
SPRINGFIELD — There’s a good chance Monday’s matchup between Pioneer and Duggan won’t be the last time the two boys basketball teams meet this winter.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Annoyed about all the snow that has dumped down on the Pioneer Valley this winter? The Mohawk Trail Nordic ski team certainly isn’t.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
The Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) has recognized the towns of Leyden and Phillipston for their 2023 annual town reports.
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Allie Palmieri stepped into a 3-pointer and drilled it with 3 minutes, 37 seconds to go in the fourth quarter of the UMass women’s basketball team’s game against Davidson on Saturday afternoon – cutting the Minutewomen’s deficit to 10 points (48-38). They hadn’t played well offensively all game, but their defense continued to turn the Wildcats over and give their offense a chance to get back in it.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ATHOL — The Mohawk Trail girls basketball team is playing its best ball down the stretch as it hopes to lock up a spot in the MIAA Div. 5 state tournament.
By RYAN AMES
STORRS, Conn. – Down but not out.
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — The rules were rather simple to Noah Lee, who stepped onto Jack Leaman Court inside the Mullins Center at halftime of Wednesday night’s women’s basketball game between the host Minutewomen and St. Bonaventure. Make four baskets – a layup, free throw, 3-pointer and half-court shot – and he’d be $10,000 richer.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
Of the festivities available for folks who attended the 103rd annual Winter Carnival, few, if any, turn heads like the series of ice sculptures displayed along Main Street during the carnival’s opening night.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
After Greenfield captured the Hampshire League South title a year ago in a close race to the finish, the Pioneer boys basketball team came back with a vengeance this winter.
By RYAN AMES
Only one game on the docket this week for the No. 18 UMass hockey team, but it's a big one as it'll wrap up a three-game season-series with UConn on Friday in Storrs.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — It was a competitive game at halftime between the Greenfield and South Hadley boys basketball teams on Wednesday at Nichols Gymnasium.
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — It’s become almost normal at this point. In recent memory, any time the UMass men’s basketball team starts to play well and garners attention from the fan base, it seemingly finds a way to let them down. Such was the case on Tuesday night in front of a season-high 3,745 fans at Mullins Center as the Minutemen fell 73-71 to Saint Louis with third place in the Atlantic 10 on the line.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
With the race for the Hampshire League North title so tightly-contested, the Athol boys basketball team knew it would likely need to win its final three league games to have a shot at the crown.
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
With the state tournaments kicking off in just a few weeks, it’s a good time to get a refresher on where the local teams sit in the latest MIAA power rankings, which were released on Tuesday.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — After a year of searching, the Selectboard voted to appoint Greenfield resident Glenn Johnson-Mussad to serve as town planner starting at the end of March.
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