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Twelve Massachusetts farms, including five in Franklin and Hampshire counties, will share in $4.7 million in Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) funds announced Friday by the Healey-Driscoll administration.The Massachusetts Department of...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Along with five other Massachusetts counties, Hampshire and Franklin counties have been declared a disaster area by the U.S. Department of Agriculture due to losses caused by flooding from July 9-16.Gov. Maura Healey and the state’s...

By JAMES PENTLAND

Stymied by the struggle to attract and retain teachers, the area’s Head Start provider has proposed lowering its enrollment capacity in the face of a potential loss of $3 million in federal funding.Clare Higgins, executive director of Community Action...

By JAMES PENTLAND

HATFIELD — Farmers who lost crops to this month’s floods, the February freeze and May frost will be able to seek compensation from a new $20 million fund announced Monday by Senate President Karen Spilka.“We have added $20 million to the supplemental...

By JAMES PENTLAND

AMHERST — Sharks have long been creatures of fascination, but having focused on them in his work for almost 10 years, UMass biology professor Duncan Irschick has found that most three-dimensional models are poor representations of the marine...

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NORTHAMPTON — Fruit farmers across the region are assessing damage to their crops in the wake of a hard frost May 18 that has affected many, including grape, apple and blueberry growers.Ian Modestow, co-owner of Hatfield’s Black Birch Vineyard with...

By JAMES PENTLAND

GOSHEN — Capping a gradual transition from the business world to small-town law enforcement, Fred Bezio was recently named chief of police in Goshen. Bezio, 53, started working as a police officer seven years ago in neighboring Ashfield, where his...

By JAMES PENTLAND

SPRINGFIELD — New England Public Media’s Latino Advisory Board has resigned en masse over recent layoffs that its members say disproportionately affected people of color, despite NEPM management’s repeated assurances of its commitment to a...

By JAMES PENTLAND

Staff WriterWESTFIELD — The Air Force has chosen Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Wing in Westfield to host a new squadron of F-35A Lightning II fighter jets.The decision means the unit will retire its 18 aging F-15C and D-model...

By JAMES PENTLAND

PLAINFIELD — Police and representatives of various animal welfare groups removed more than 70 small dogs from a North Union Street home Monday.The animals were reportedly well cared for and in good health.Police Chief Justin Litchfield said the...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Supporters of enhanced passenger rail service in western Massachusetts packed the Senior Center Tuesday to testify before the legislative commission studying the project’s governance and funding.From as far afield as Greenfield, Palmer...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — On the heels of the second- and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history, local bankers said they see little chance of the problems spreading far, and no chance that any Massachusetts banks will be in trouble.“All of our deposits are...

By JAMES PENTLAND

Signs of a cooling real estate market continued to emerge in January, according to figures from the Realtor Association of the Pioneer Valley that show home sales dropped by 32.5% across the three counties compared to January 2022 statistics.The...