The Hatfield Planning Board voted Monday night to cancel their Public Hearing scheduled for September 17th and withdraw the proposed zoning change due to a procedural and administrative issue, according to Town Officials.
		
	
	Town votes are approaching for the six-town regionalization plan with the Gill-Montague and Pioneer School Districts.
		
	
	As announced at the Monday evening Montague Selectboard meeting, the search for a new Montague Police Chief has been narrowed down to two candidates,
		
	
	A former Northampton man has been sentenced to five to ten years in state prison for a hate crime where he and another individual attacked two people at a Sunderland liquor store last year, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
		
	
	54 year-old Greenfield man, Norman Plausky, died Saturday after his boat crashed on the Connecticut River.
		
	
	Massachusetts State Police have announced a new policy for behavioral criss response, developed in collaboration with the Department of Mental Health.
		
	
	The town of Hawley is considering paths to help community residents afford rising costs of cemetery plots in the town-owned cemeteries.
		
	
	The annual Northeast Houndsmen training seminar began Sunday, conducting training sessions with police dogs and handlers from throughout the region in Orange and surrounding towns.
		
	
	Originally scheduled to begin this morning, road work will instead begin Tuesday, September 16th on East Main Street in Orange from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m..
		
	
	Sunday afternoon, one individual sustained life-threatening injuries in a car accident on Interstate 91 northbound in Hatfield.