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By JAMES PENTLAND

Seventy feet off the ground, looking out over the treetops of the DAR State Forest, gusty winds were keeping Sean Cadigan and John Celona inside the fire tower.The two men, who are the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s tower repair and...

By JAMES PENTLAND

BELCHERTOWN — In a move that caught at least two of its members off guard, the Select Board last week chose a 25-year department head to be town administrator after members deemed the three finalists recommended by a search panel were not a good fit...

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

NORTHAMPTON — A seamless transition is underway at Woodstar Café as Esselon owner Mark Krause takes over from Woodstar founder Rebecca Robbins and her husband, Dmitri, according to both parties.“We have been Esselon’s baker for 17 years, and they’ve...

By JAMES PENTLAND

AMHERST — Astronomers from the University of Massachusetts played a key role in revealing the latest deep-field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, including some of the universe’s most distant galaxies.“With these pictures, we’re looking...