A ‘hub’ blueprint begins: City kicks off planning for new Resilience Hub downtown
NORTHAMPTON — On Monday evening, Edwards Church became the site of a more secular sermon on the necessity of a new center to confront the challenges of both climate change and income inequality in Northampton, problems architect Dorrie Brooks said are...
Ex-super, medical director of Soldiers’ Home change pleas, upsetting some families of 76 who died during pandemic
NORTHAMPTON — Four years after reports of veterans’ deaths at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke began to grow in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the legal cases against the home’s former superintendent and medical director came to an end at a...
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Connor Pignatello, Gazette’s newest sports reporter, hitting the ground running
When I was nine years old, my third-grade class had a stuffed animal mascot, Tag the Tiger.My teacher, Mr. Peters, assigned us a creative writing story on Tag every couple of weeks. Written with my third-grade Ticonderoga scrawl in a black and white...
Opinion
Guest columnist Bonnie Harrison: Taxes are a wake-up call: Welcome to your ‘Golden Years’
I’d like to respond to the letter “Where will it end?” [Gazette, Feb. 7] regarding the writer’s taxes in Northampton. Welcome to what all senior citizens are enduring on our fixed incomes. Come on over to your neighboring city of Easthampton, where...
UMass
UMass football: Record number of players participate in Minutemen’s pro day
AMHERST — The UMass football program held its annual pro day on Tuesday afternoon in front of scouts for the New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars. The Minutemen held their first spring practice of the year in the morning.UMass had 10 football...
Arts & Life
Speaking of Nature: Is this Grackle really common? Behold the bird’s colorful iridescence on a sunny day
After a while, one learns what to expect with each month and each season. July is going to be hot and humid, October will be colorful and somewhat melancholy, January will be cold and sleepy, and then there is March. March is the month for which the...
Obituaries
Amherst, MA - So many who knew and loved her have admiringly described Lorna Mintz Peterson as a force of nature. On Saturday, March 16, at 84 years, Nature reclaimed her own. The beloved d... remainder of obit for Lorna M. Peterson
Seaford, DE - Mary L. Novak passed peacefully in her Seaford, Delaware home surrounded by her loving children on December 31, 2023. Mary was born on August 6, 1941 and grew up in Montag... remainder of obit for Mary Novak
Easthampton, MA - Beverley A. Carrigan, 78, of Easthampton, Massachusetts, passed away peacefully on March 16, 2024 in her home, surrounded by her loved ones. She was born on February 13, 1... remainder of obit for Beverley Carrigan
Cummington, MA - Pearl I. (Coburn) Lynds, 93, of Cummington, Massachusetts, passed away on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, surrounded by family. Pearl was born in... remainder of obit for Pearl Lynds