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NORTHAMPTON — Malfunctioning equipment responsible for sterilizing medical instruments and devices forced Cooley Dickinson Hospital to temporarily suspend both elective and emergency surgical operations on Nov. 6, though some of those procedures...

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NORTHAMPTON — When Chris Freeman was in eighth grade, his father took him to the Iron Horse Music Hall for his first concert at the venue, where he was immediately entranced by the atmosphere, sitting at one of the tables by the wall plastered with...

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NORTHAMPTON — Single-family homeowners will likely see their tax bills go up by about $500 on average next year, even though the city is looking to lower its property tax rate.That’s because the average single-family home in Northampton has ballooned...

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NORTHAMPTON — When Brien Baker was teaching English in Japan during the 1980s, he heard a story about a colleague that witnessed a student buy an 8-ounce can of soda from a vending machine, even though a 12-ounce soda cost the same price. When the...

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NORTHAMPTON — A week after a barrage of racist and antisemitic comments made over Zoom at a City Council meeting, councilors are considering limiting public comment at their bimonthly meetings to only items listed on the agenda.If enacted — the idea...

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NORTHAMPTON — In addition to at-large positions on the City Council and School Committee, voters in Tuesday’s election also decided races for the council’s Ward 3 seat and School Committee’s Ward 4 seat.Michael Stein, the incumbent Ward 4 committee...

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NORTHAMPTON — The City Council will convene in a special meeting Thursday to discuss steps to address its rules regarding public comment after last week’s meeting was disrupted by numerous racist and antisemitic remarks made over Zoom.What had been...

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NORTHAMPTON — Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra has designated Capt. John Cartledge to lead the Police Department on an interim basis while a search takes place to find a replacement for Chief Jody Kasper, who announced earlier this week that she is leaving...

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NORTHAMPTON — Four candidates are vying for two at-large seats on the Northampton City Council, the only multi-candidate council race in the municipal election Nov. 7. The candidates are Garrick Perry, the current Ward 4 city councilor; Marissa...

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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...

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NORTHAMPTON — A sleepy campaign for Ward 3’s city council seat is now competitive after a longtime resident recently announced a write-in campaign for the position heading into next Tuesday’s municipal election.The race to replace outgoing councilor...

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NORTHAMPTON — After 25 years of service and a lifetime spent in western Massachusetts, Northampton Police Chief Jody Kasper is leaving the city to take on a new role as chief of police for the idyllic island town of Nantucket.“Pursuing this...

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NORTHAMPTON — One day, Kara McElhone hopes her services will no longer be needed. But until then, she plans to keep up on her mission of protecting children as executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Hampshire County.“How we treat our...

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NORTHAMPTON — As Halloween approaches, members of the New England Mountain Biking Association (NEMBA) are grappling with the city over a different kind of saw massacre.Members of the association recently discovered that a bridge they paid for and...

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BOSTON — Stressing that legal drug consumption sites would save hundreds of lives and that there isn’t a moment to waste, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan implored lawmakers on Monday to muster up the courage to pass legislation before...

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NORTHAMPTON — More than a year into a six-year, $220 million project to convert Smith College into a geothermal campus, officials used last weekend’s two-day presidential inauguration ceremonies to highlight the work that’s expected make its campus...

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NORTHAMPTON — A stove and oven, along with a 36-inch grill and deep fryers, are just some of the equipment inside Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School’s new food truck, which launched on Wednesday, staffed by students in the school’s culinary...

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NORTHAMPTON — As Israel amasses troops along the border with Gaza in preparation for a likely ground invasion, around 50 protesters congregated at the roundabout in front of the Coolidge Bridge in Northampton Monday to call for a ceasefire in the...

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CONCORD, N.H. — In the center of New Hampshire’s capital city of Concord lies its Main Street, overlooked by the city’s historic gold-domed State House building and its accompanying plaza featuring statues of the Granite State’s most notable political...

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HOLYOKE — Inside Ann Wedaman’s home in Holyoke are boxes of books, more than 21,000 books roughly, that have been donated for a fundraising book sale planned by the Northampton area chapter of the League of Women Voters, an organization that Wedaman...