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Planning Board Endorses Two-Lot Split on Barrett Street
Belchertown Planning Board starts drafting local data center limits, presses a developer on stalled drainage fixes.
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Morning Brief
State sets Sept. 30 hearing on Quabbin water
State to hold Sept. 30 hearing on request for 20 million more gallons a day from Quabbin. Also in today's brief (3 items): Water district updates outdoor watering ban; Fireworks, food trucks set for Sept. 24 celebration; Public hearing set on bigger Quabbin water request.
Obituaries
Obituary notices, week of September 14, 2026 through September 20, 2026
Belchertown's obituary column this week carries notices for two residents: Robinson, William E., 37, who died September 10 following a motorcycle accident in Granby and was raised in Chicopee and South Hadley; and Faulkins, Janet E., 76, a lifelong Belchertown resident and 1968 graduate…
Morning Brief
Select Board adopts financial policies, surplus split unresolved
Belchertown Select Board adopts four financial policies but leaves $340,896 surplus split unresolved before Oct. 5 deadline. From our own coverage: UMass hydrologist briefs Belchertown on drought, well risk; Select Board sends $61,611 to school opioid program. Also in today's brief (9 i…
Real Estate
Only One Of 18 Belchertown Deeds Recorded This Period Carries A Price
Belchertown recorded 18 property transfers between Aug. 21 and Sept. 19, but only one, 162 Barton Ave. at $420,000, has a posted sale price so far; prices for the other 17 typically appear within about a week. Eight of the 18 deeds list a bank or credit union as seller, transferring ban…
Morning Brief
Lt. Gov. Driscoll Tours State School Site, Pathfinder Tech Cuts Ribbon
Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll toured Belchertown's former State School site Saturday as Pathfinder Tech opened its new Cold Spring campus. State and local leaders joined Driscoll for the tour, which centered on redevelopment options for the long vacant property that once housed the state school…
Government · Select Board
Belchertown Select Board adopts four financial policies in split votes
Belchertown's Select Board adopted four new financial policies in a joint tri-board meeting that also aired a dispute over school spending data.
Government · Conservation
Belchertown panel continues trail hearing over wetland buffer questions
Belchertown conservation panel presses its own trail project over wetland buffer, ratifies two enforcement orders.
Obituaries
Obituary notices, week of September 7 through September 13
One Belchertown obituary was published this week: Maydew, Mary Jo, 77, who died September 9, 2026. Limited biographical detail was available from the source listing beyond her age, date of death, and Belchertown residency. The notice was drawn from Echovita's Belchertown obituary listin…
Real Estate
Belchertown sale prices span $14,971 to $160,000 in latest deed filings
Hampshire County recorded 16 property transfers in Belchertown between Aug. 14 and Sept. 12, but only five listed a sale price, ranging from $14,971 to $160,000 with a median of $95,000. The top transaction was 47 Segur Lane at $160,000, sold by Jameson and Angela Gaspar to Freedom Cred…
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