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NORTHAMPTON — The City Council voted to approve nearly $1 million in Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding last week, giving the green light to five ecological restoration, recreation and historic prese...
NORTHAMPTON — A 41-year-old Northampton man was sentenced to four to five years in state prison after being found guilty of a July 2024 assault. After a two-day trial in Hampshire Superior Court, a jury fo...
NORTHAMPTON — It was 1974. Main Street was boarded up. Apartments were empty. Very few businesses except for a few pop-ups lingered in the dead town, including a reportedly decrepit bar, Mike’s Tavern. T...
Northampton visual artist Jacob Clayton, a gay transgender man, spent more of his life in the closet than not. In the last decade, however, he has discovered how to use photography to help himself understand...
NORTHAMPTON — After 20 years of leasing its property at 330 North King St. and a $1.5 million loan campaign, River Valley Co-op now owns its land. The co-op’s original 20-year land lease ended in Decembe...
NORTHAMPTON — Three years since the city launched its green infrastructure agency, the Department of Climate Action and Project Administration (CAPA), the department has saved the city more than $269,808 i...
Daniel Nye is the new Veterans Services Director in Northampton, Massachusetts. Nye and the outdoing director Steven Connor say many details of the job have changed over the past two decades, but not the mis...
NORTHAMPTON — The School Committee voted 7-3 Wednesday evening to enact as bell-to-bell cellphone policy at Northampton Public Schools, bringing the school district into compliance with pending state legis...
NORTHAMPTON — It took them longer than they expected, but they made it happen, and then some. On Monday night, the Iron Horse in Northampton celebrated the results of a monthslong effort to raise funds for...
NORTHAMPTON — While 173 Revolutionary War veterans lie buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, a local historian is bringing their stories to light as America marks its 250th anniversary. On Saturday morning, do...
NORTHAMPTON — A theater executive with more than 30 years of experience in performance, directing, education and arts administration has been selected to lead the historic Academy of Music downtown. The Ac...
NORTHAMPTON — With questions lingering over parking, pedestrian access and design standards, the Planning Board has continued its review of a proposal to build 91 affordable housing units downtown at the f...
NORTHAMPTON — When Mara Dodge visited Iran in 2010, she expected cultural differences. What surprised her were the Hannah Montana backpacks, English-language signs, family picnics and invitations from stra...
NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Housing Authority (NHA) voted 5-1 to appoint the agency’s acting executive director Sharon Kimble to a permanent role, pending successful contract negotiations, at a meeting...
NORTHAMPTON — At a memorial service for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder this month, more than 300 people gathered at Smith College to celebrate his life, but the stories they shared were less ab...
NORTHAMPTON — Shawn Palmer, publisher of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder and Athol Daily News, is set to add being president and chief executive officer of Newspapers of New England to his...
NORTHAMPTON — Shawn Palmer, publisher of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder and Athol Daily News, is set to add being president and chief executive officer of Newspapers of New England to his...
The Northampton 12U softball team secured the 2026 Massachusetts District 2 Little League championship after rallying to defeat Wilbraham, 4-3, on Tuesday. Trailing 2-1, the Blue Devils scored three runs in...
NORTHAMPTON — A group of 30 Northampton residents, including 20 members of the local Jewish community, is lending its support to a City Council resolution to divest from entities involved in human rights v...
NORTHAMPTON — At a memorial service for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder this month, more than 300 people gathered at Smith College to celebrate his life, but the stories they shared were less ab...
NORTHAMPTON — Shawn Palmer, publisher of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder and Athol Daily News, is set to add being president and CEO of Newspapers of New England to his responsibilities. P...
ASHLEY — A man from Northampton County was arrested when he arrived at what he believed was a meeting with a teenage girl for sex Thursday night.
NORTHAMPTON — Most teenagers don’t spend their free time studying school budgets or speaking up about public education funding. Zara Usman does. During her four years at Northampton High School, Usman be...
NORTHAMPTON — A new downtown performance venue aiming to fill a gap in the city’s nightlife could open soon, bringing live music, theater, drag shows and other kinds of entertainment to Pleasant Street....