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By JULIAN MENDOZA

HOLYOKE — While the term “catfish” has come to refer to deceptively portraying oneself online to manipulate others, know that you’re not being catfished here — the jaw-dropping images you’re about to see are real.Millers Falls resident Brandy...

By SCOTT MERZBACHand CHRIS LARABEE

More than 1,300 students age 25 and older attend Holyoke Community College, where the Itsy Bitsy child watch center, the Homestead Market and the Adult Learning Center are among the offerings aimed at improving their educational careers.With thousands...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HOLYOKE — Dennis Thresher, an Air Force veteran who served the United States from 1950 to 1954, was at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke when he contracted COVID-19 in 2020, was hospitalized with the illness four times and died from pneumonia in January...

By STEVE PFARRER

Mass Humanities has awarded more than $160,000 to five cultural organizations in the Pioneer Valley to help them sustain or increase their staffing, with the larger goal being to help those groups “create, restore and grow humanities programs.” The...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Franklin County Superior Court judge on Thursday declined to adjust the bail of one of the Holyoke men facing drug and gun charges after allegedly leading police on a vehicle chase and foot pursuit in January 2022.Judge David Hodge...

By KERRY DUMBAUGH

Having just passed the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision to restrict abortion access, it is worth considering Anthony Comstock’s terrible legacy of doing more to restrict American women’s reproductive rights than anyone...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — Speaking to a small crowd of supporters, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren lambasted the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade last year, saying the court had been taken over by “extremists” who threatened to curtail further liberties...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Criminal proceedings can proceed against two former Holyoke Soldiers’ Home officials accused of negligence that led to the deaths of dozens of veterans early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday.In a 5-2 decision...

By MICHAEL CONNORS

HOLYOKE — Police do not suspect foul play in the death of Cory Taylor, 41, the fugitive with a part-time residence in New Salem whose body was found last week after he made bail at a local county jail in August and then disappeared.James Leydon,...

HOLYOKE — The body of Cory Taylor, the alleged marijuana trafficker with a part-time residence in New Salem, who has been a fugitive since he disappeared in August after making bail at a county jail, was discovered by police in a vacant building at...