Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere
Updated: Aug. 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Hanna Guidry and Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere
A portion of Feeding Hills Road remains closed after a crash.
Updated: Apr. 25, 2024 at 10:37 PM EDT
|By Raegan Loughrey, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
Frustrations continued on Thursday at the Springfield School Committee meeting. Although the current and controversial search for the next superintendent was not on the agenda, tensions rose between committee members.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2024 at 10:26 PM EDT
|By Addie Patterson, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
Crews in Hampden responded to a brush fire on Wednesday evening on Somers Road.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2024 at 4:20 PM EDT
|By Olivia Hickey, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
A man has been arrested in connection with an ongoing death investigation in Greenfield.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2024 at 9:44 PM EDT
|By Olivia Hickey, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
We’re learning some students had an unusual ride home from a Westfield school on Tuesday afternoon.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2024 at 10:40 PM EDT
|By Addie Patterson, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
Part of the USA Women’s National Team kicked off their tour ahead of the upcoming Olympics right here in Springfield!
Updated: Apr. 18, 2024 at 8:19 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
The drama continues as the search for Springfield Public Schools’ next superintendent rolls on.
Updated: Apr. 17, 2024 at 6:57 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
More controversy has occurred in the search for the next Springfield Public Schools superintendent, and today, the Ad Hoc Committee was supposed to have a meeting discussing their own proposal to have two student representatives on the search committee.
Updated: Apr. 17, 2024 at 8:52 AM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
Eight first responders from the Ludlow Police Department were commended for their bravery on that cold January night assisting a Wilbraham officer who was shot in the line of duty.
Updated: Apr. 17, 2024 at 12:54 AM EDT
|By Chris Pisano, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
A Springfield man was sentenced on Tuesday in connection to a deadly hit and run in Chicopee back in October 2022.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2024 at 10:08 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
An alleged serious incident involving multiple juveniles at Frontier Regional School in Deerfield. Now, parents and educators spoke up about what the school allegedly did not do in response and what changes they want to see.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2024 at 8:57 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
Monday was the solar eclipse, seen across much of the United States, with the path of totality through Vermont and people from both Massachusetts and Connecticut tried to beat the traffic to see the full eclipse.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2024 at 10:34 PM EDT
|By Chris Pisano, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
We got answers from a scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey on exactly how powerful it was in our area, as well as the impact it had locally on people and their pets.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2024 at 10:16 PM EDT
|By Raegan Loughrey, Tyler Beraldi and Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere
Western Mass News spoke with both experts and students at UMass Amherst on Friday, following the northeastern earthquake that sent shockwaves throughout the area.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2024 at 10:16 PM EDT
|By Addie Patterson, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere, Tyler Beraldi and Taylor Smith
Quite the scene in Agawam on Thursday evening by River Road, as emergency crews were seen pulling a car out of the Connecticut River.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2024 at 11:02 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
Over in Franklin County, Western Mass news got a live look at the conditions in Greenfield, and it did not feel like Spring on Friday night.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2024 at 10:32 PM EDT
|By Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere, Addie Patterson and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
The Chicopee City Council met on Tuesday evening.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2024 at 10:29 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
As the search continues for the next superintendent of Springfield Public Schools, a meeting on Tuesday night gave the public a chance to weigh-in.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2024 at 5:57 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
The search continues for the next superintendent of Springfield Public Schools. We’re learning new information about possible applicants presented to a committee helping lead that search.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2024 at 10:38 PM EDT
|By Addie Patterson, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
A rally was held at UMass Amherst today criticizing the disciplinary sanctions the university imposed on over 50 students and staff who were arrested for participating in a sit-in demonstration last fall.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2024 at 10:37 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
In new developments on a story that we have been following since last month, the fallout from the racial bullying scandal at Southwick Regional School continues, as the Greater Springfield NAACP is now joining in on the calls for a Southwick School Committee member to step down.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2024 at 10:27 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra and public schools superintendent Dr. Portia Bonner hosted a school funding presentation on Wednesday evening.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2024 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By Matt Price, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Abigail Murillo Villacorta
Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers Home is expected to change his plea in court on Tuesday as he is accused of mishandling the deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the facility in 2020.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2024 at 10:52 PM EDT
|By Addie Patterson, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
The Springfield Thunderbirds honored the St. Patrick’s Day committee of Holyoke at the MassMutual Center.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2024 at 10:44 PM EDT
|By Abbey Carnivale, Photojournalist: Matt Lafreniere and Tyler Beraldi
In a continuation of our coverage of Princess Kate’s cancer diagnosis, we spoke with a British native who has found himself in New England.



































