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By THOMAS JOHNSTON

TURNERS FALLS — It’s not often these days that a dual high school wrestling meet is competitive from start-to-finish. That was the case on Friday though, when South Hadley traveled to Franklin Tech. Of the 14 weight total classes, 11 were filled and...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD – It wasn’t going to come easy for the Frontier girls basketball team on Thursday against Greenfield. The Redhawks led 32-20 going into the fourth quarter but the Green Wave stormed back, with Amber Bergeron and Tayler Bergeron each...

The Greenfield indoor track team competed in the early portion of the PVIAC’s fourth meet of the season on Wednesday at Smith College, with a trio of Green Wave athletes earning top five finishes. On the boys’ side, Jackson Caron earned a third place...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SPRINGFIELD — The Hoosac Valley boys basketball team found a groove from deep against Pioneer on Thursday in the Hoophall Classic at Springfield College’s Blake Arena. Hoosac’s Joey McGovern knocked down three 3-pointers in a row to open the game,...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Massachusetts students will receive sex and health education that is intended to be more inclusive of the LGBTQ community and teach about bodily autonomy, mental and emotional health, dating safety, nutrition, sexually transmitted infections...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The Frontier Regional boys volleyball program wouldn’t exist without Jesse Kurkulonis.Inspired by the success of his friends on the Redhawks girls team, which has won 11 state championships including last fall, he began inquiring with newly minted...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

DEVENS – Madison Liimatainen has hit more than her fair share of home runs for Turners Falls and various travel and club softball teams. Never one like the one that cleared the Willard Field fence Wednesday, though.In the first of two Bay State Games...

By HANNAH BEVIS

AYER — Going into the season, the Frontier baseball team set three goals for its squad – win the league, win a Western Mass. title and win at least a couple of games in the state tournament.The Redhawks were able to check all of those goals off over...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

OXFORD – The Frontier baseball team won’t pinch hit for Brady Poreda again.The freshman No. 9 hole hitter plunged the dagger into No. 3 Oxford to send the No. 14 Redhawks to the MIAA Division 5 quarterfinals on the road Wednesday.After Frontier coach...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH DEERFIELD – Scoring points or winning sets brought no comfort to the top-seeded Frontier Regional boys volleyball team against Ware in Wednesday’s Western Massachusetts Class C semifinal.The Redhawks coaching staff regularly reminded them to not...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — School Committee members will consider next month whether to censure Mayor Roxann Wedegartner for an opinion piece she wrote last month that disclosed her vote in an executive session.“Executive session is confidential until the minutes...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HADLEY – Vengeful thunder rang out from Liam Skribiski-Banack’s bat every time he made contact.The Frontier Regional baseball captain woke up with a “fire lit in [his] belly” Thursday morning ahead of the Redhawks’ second meeting with Hopkins Academy....

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — In the wake of what local school officials have described as “the most challenging years” in education, administrators across the state and locally experienced one of the sharpest declines in teacher retention rates this year compared to...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Though regional school districts could receive more money to pay for student transportation than they’ve gotten in years through Gov. Maura Healey’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal, the Massachusetts Association of School Committees is still...

By HANNAH BEVIS

EASTHAMPTON — Just a couple of months ago, Lauren Morse was making history with the girls basketball team, sinking her 1,000th point in front of a packed home crowd.On a chilly Friday afternoon, she added her name to the history books again with her...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Easthampton just needed some time to warm up.The Eagles softball team trailed Frontier Regional by two runs after three innings during Friday’s season opener. Cloudy skies and temperatures in the 40s necessitated jackets.Then Lauren...

 By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — The School Department started the school year with 158 fewer students than last fall, making for one of the sharpest declines in enrollment the district has seen in recent history, according to enrollment data for the past decade. Between...