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By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

WARE — Residents can safely drink town water again.An order issued Tuesday advising them to boil their drinking water due to contamination ended Wednesday.A collection of five samples analyzed for the offending bacteria showed the water system to be...

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A Berkshire Superior Court grand jury has indicted an Easthampton woman accused of misleading police in connection with a missing-person investigation.The indictment was handed up against Laura Reilly, who faces three counts of intimidation of...

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EASTHAMPTON — The threat of rain didn’t stop hundreds from gathering to see this year’s Memorial Day parade in Easthampton, where everyone from veterans to local baseball teams marched together to honor America’s veterans.Small groups of people...

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HATFIELD — Any bibliophile who has relocated from one home to another knows how burdensome moving a bookshelf full of books can be. Now try and imagine the logistical nightmare involved in moving not just a few boxes of books, but some 2.5 million...

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HADLEY — Just a month after her son had begun first grade at Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, Shoshona King says Dimitri was already being pushed out the door.Dimitri, who is on the autism spectrum, started classes at the school in...

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AMHERST — When the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the University of Massachusetts Amherst tested water for lead and copper levels at schools statewide, the results — that 72 percent of school buildings had at least one...

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AMHERST — In keeping with Hampshire College’s reputation for its interdisciplinary, often quirky curriculum and teaching methods, academics there have founded a scholars-in-residence program for plasmodial slime molds — billed as “the world’s only...

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AMHERST — Just before taking the stage before thousands at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s commencement Friday, health care was on U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s mind.With Republicans holding a firm grip on both houses of Congress and the...

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AMHERST — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren took aim at Donald Trump and his administration during Friday’s keynote address at the University of Massachusetts Amherst commencement ceremony, where she pushed students to engage in politics.Making jokes at...

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SOUTH HADLEY — After planning a trip to Spain with her girlfriend last year, travel-crazy Mount Holyoke College senior Carly Forcade came to the realization that there was no place where LGBTQ globetrotters like herself could go for recommendations...

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AMHERST — In what is believed to be a first in the region, the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee has unanimously approved a policy designed to protect undocumented students. The policy on the protection of undocumented students states that...

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NORTHAMPTON — New restrictions for drivers using cellphones inside a vehicle are a step closer to reality in Massachusetts.The Massachusetts legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation has passed, by an 18-0 vote, a bill that, if approved by the...

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SOUTH HADLEY – Mount Holyoke College professor of environmental studies Lauret Savoy has been awarded a prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to further her research on the intersection of history, race and the physical landscape of America.The...

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Neal Abraham, executive director of the Five College Consortium, announced Monday that he will retire next year.Abraham, who has headed Five Colleges Inc. since 2009, said that he will stay in the position until June 2018. Abraham said he will likely...

By Dusty Christensen

NORTHAMPTON — Journalists and the occasional enthusiast spend lots of time listening to emergency dispatch scanners, the static voices on the radio providing a window onto the work a city’s emergency services do day and night. So it may only have come...