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By STEVE PFARRER

The 1980s witnessed the start of what have become some longstanding artistic landmarks in Northampton: the Young@Heart Chorus, the downtown New Year’s Eve festival called First Night Northampton, and a good-natured competition involving collegiate a...

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — As several other Hampshire County communities have spent the spring budget season grappling with how to overcome significant funding gaps brought on the expiration of support from pandemic funding, the city of Easthampton is sitting on...

By STEVE PFARRER

As part of a funding program for municipal and nonprofit performing arts centers, the Massachusetts Cultural Council is awarding over $150,000 to 10 arts organizations and centers in the Valley.The awards — part of $3.66 million in funding the MCC is...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Seven years after entering the political spotlight as a member of the Easthampton City Council, Homar Gomez on Thursday officially launched a bid for state representative for the 2nd Hampshire District.“My family, the community, my...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — After a delay caused in part by the pandemic, the city has a new poet laureate.Franny Choi, who was nominated last year for a Massachusetts Book Award, has written for the New York Times and the Atlantic, and been interviewed on NPR, has...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The city has launched an Ad Hoc Senior Center Building Committee that will meet for the next year before a future building committee is formed to advance plans for a new senior center. The ad hoc committee will review collected material...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After a somewhat hectic start to the first formal meeting of the Northampton City Council, Ward 5 councilor Alex Jarrett narrowly emerged as the new council president, with Ward 7’s Rachel Maiore joining him as vice president.Jarrett and...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The Easthampton School Committee turned a new leaf on Tuesday as members were sworn into office for a new term, with those serving for the next two years looking to put behind them a tumultuous year in which two of its members quit...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city’s legislative leaders for the next two years are now officially in service, after a swearing-in ceremony Tuesday that featured new faces and experienced officials take the oath of office.The inauguration ceremony held at the...

By STEVE PFARRER

As Steve Sanderson sees it, First Night Northampton is getting its mojo back.The annual New Year’s Eve celebration got shot down two years in a row by COVID-19, first in December 2020 and then again in December 2021 when, just days before the event...

By MADDIE FABIAN

SOUTHAMPTON — Older adults living in Southampton could enjoy a new senior center within the next five to six years, with the help of a substantial bequest from the estate of David “Red” Parsons which was presented to the Council on Aging last...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Debate continued last week over a nearly $10 million increase in the borrowing authorization for the $46.14 million Jones Library renovation and expansion project, with those both for and against the idea using a public budget forum as a...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — One new park will be constructed and another rehabbed in the New City neighborhood after the City Council approved spending for several Community Preservation Act projects last week. Another project included in the combined $1 million...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Opponents of the current redesign plan for the Picture Main Street project have unveiled an alternative vision for what Northampton’s Main Street should look like, in hopes the city changes its mind before construction officially takes...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Five members of the Town Council who have served continuously since it was seated in fall 2018 fended off challenges at Tuesday’s town election, according to unofficial results from the town clerk’s office.Both Lynn Griesemer and Pat De...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A pair of current city councilors — Marissa Elkins and Garrick Perry — swept aside two challengers in Tuesday’s municipal election to capture the at-large positions on the City Council, based on unofficial results. Elkins, an at-large...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — While the makeup of City Council will remain largely the same going into the next term, voters on Tuesday elected two new faces to the council: Jason “JT” Tirrell for at-large councilor and Tamara Smith for Precinct 5.This year’s...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — With a budget override looming for Northampton, spending and money dominated a significant portion of the conversation at a Wednesday forum featuring the four candidates running for two at-large positions on the City Council.Candidates...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON – In the only contested City Council race at next Tuesday’s municipal election, a former city councilor and a former candidate for the council will face off to fill the Precinct 5 seat currently held by Dan Rist, the longtime city...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council on Thursday unveiled a resolution in support of the city’s Picture Main Street redesign, aiming to assure residents of the benefits the project will bring to the city despite anxieties over the three-year, $21 million...

By MADDIE FABIAN

SOUTHAMPTON — A proposed new bylaw would prohibit property owners from storing more than one unregistered vehicle or trailer on their property, with certain exceptions.The bylaw aims to regulate the storage of unregistered vehicles and “simultaneously...