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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A $103.3 million fiscal year budget that goes most of the way toward meeting the spending requests from the Amherst and Regional school committees, while leaving six full-time and one part-time municipal positions vacant and assorted Jones Library staff positions unfilled, is being delivered to the Town Council.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — Officials are set to recognize residents who have received Purple Hearts, with the Select Board this week adopting a proclamation making Hatfield a Purple Heart Town.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Bought almost 22 years ago by Amherst College, the Arthur H. Dakin Estate, an unoccupied 14-room Georgian Colonial home with an attached garage at 355 South Pleasant St., could soon be demolished.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Denser housing developments in apartment-style buildings, with the units reserved for people age 55 and over, will be allowed along Route 9, after residents supported revisions to the original senior overlay district at annual Town Meeting Thursday.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Amherst Recreation Department’s work at expanding accessibility and empowering youth is being recognized through an award presented by the Massachusetts Recreation and Park Association.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — At Hampshire Meadow Family & Pediatric Dentistry, which specializes in offering dental care for those under the age of 2, the practice’s viability depends on timely reimbursements for pediatric patients on MassHealth insurance.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — An historic dam on School Street, where the rushing water in the Mill River forms a waterfall providing the sights and sounds for guests at the Old Mill Inn, is being examined for possible removal.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — As heavy machinery moves about a 9-acre site off Montague Road, marking the preliminary work on 15 duplex condominiums to be constructed over the next year and that will offer first-time homeownership opportunities to 30 families, North Amherst residents are already preparing to welcome their new neighbors.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Ancestral Bridges’ first physical location at 29A Cottage St. will serve as a new cultural anchor for Amherst and the Connecticut River Valley, and a place where archives come alive through community engagement with art, culture and history, according to founder Anika Lopes.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

PELHAM — Even with no retail stores in town, meaning there are no places to legally buy tobacco or nicotine products, the town’s Board of Health could become the second Hampshire County community, after Belchertown, to adopt a so-called nicotine-free generation policy as part of its regulations.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — Accepting a gift of an actively managed 146.3-acre woodlot and recommending resurfacing and possibly paving the length of Dudleyville Road are among actions to be decided by residents at annual Town Meeting Saturday.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Work on the $46.1 million expansion and renovation of the Jones Library is expected to begin in mid-June after low bidder Fontaine Brothers, Inc., of Springfield signed a contract with the town to be the project’s general contractor.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Banners recognizing the town’s past and present military veterans, as well as those continuing to actively serve in the armed forces, lined Hadley streets for the first time in 2024.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Federal officials are restoring the previously terminated student immigration statuses for 13 international students at the University of Massachusetts, according to information posted on the university’s federal actions page Monday.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

PELHAM — Christoper Bartlett, 31, has been identified as the victim of a fatal house fire at 109 North Valley Road early Friday morning, according to the state fire marshal’s office.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Revising the senior overlay district to encourage more 55-and-over housing developments on Route 9, protecting in perpetuity almost 43 acres of farmland and increasing the local-option meals and hotel taxes, pending legislative approval, will be items considered by voters at annual Town Meeting on Thursday.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A restructuring of the progressive New College of Florida by that state’s Republican leadership in 2023 prompted Hampshire College to offer students there a respite and opportunity to continue their studies in Amherst.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Opportunities to interact with robotic dogs developed by a University of Massachusetts Robotics team, see glass being melted for the creation of scientific glassware for campus labs and observe and participate in tree climbing will be among more than 25 activities on Founders Day, the annual event being held on the Amherst campus Tuesday.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

PELHAM — A man in his 30s was killed in a fire early Friday morning at a two-family, two-story home at 109 North Valley Road, according to town and state officials.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

In one sculpture made from fired terracotta, with a natural patina, life holds and cradles life. In another sculpture, life holds and grasps death.