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NORTHAMPTON — Comparing Donald Trump to Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, John Bonifaz, a local attorney and activist, condemned Trump at a rally in Northampton on Thursday shortly after the former president was arraigned in...

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NORTHAMPTON — Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge, and residents of the Pioneer Valley can mark the occasion by visiting the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum at Forbes Library in...

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NORTHAMPTON — As the war in Ukraine rages on and international conflicts along other contested border areas simmer, more than 100 medical journals around the world are calling for the disarmament of nuclear weapons worldwide — an unusual step for...

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NORTHAMPTON — The Forbes Library is looking to expand the number of people sitting on its board of trustees for the first time since the 1980s, a move that the library says is essential to support its numerous programs and expand the diversity of its...

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NORTHAMPTON — The number of motor vehicle accidents involving pedestrians and bicyclists has climbed across the commonwealth over the past three years, and the Pioneer Valley is no exception.Across Hampshire and Franklin counties, there have been 213...

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NORTHAMPTON — Northampton Fire Chief Jon Davine was 27 years old when he entered the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy as a new recruit, before joining Northampton Fire Rescue in 1998. Now 25 years later, Davine will soon be the highest-ranking...

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NORTHAMPTON — Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra issued a statement on Friday addressing the impact of the flooding of the Connecticut River in the city, her first since the floods wrecked havoc in Northampton and across the Pioneer Valley earlier in the...

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NORTHAMPTON — When Jeremy Macomber-Dubs was growing up, he was the first physically disabled person to attend his high school, with a wheelchair ramp having to be installed in the building. He has defied his condition, known as brittle bone disease,...

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NORTHAMPTON — The four private colleges in Hampshire County generate an annual economic impact of more than $1.5 billion to the Massachusetts economy, including more than 8,000 jobs, according to a report released by the Association of Independent...

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BELCHERTOWN — A 30-year-old Granby man is facing four criminal charges in connection with the death of his girlfriend in an early morning motor vehicle crash on July 1.Cory Menard was arraigned Wednesday in Eastern Hampshire District Court and pleaded...

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NORTHAMPTON — In the decade since Cooley Dickinson Hospital joined the system of then Massachusetts General Hospital, the partnership has shown its value in an expansion of services and capacity, the provision of expertise and support that helped the...

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NORTHAMPTON — The Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts has begun a rebranding effort, unveiling a new program and fundraising event this year and spinning off the organization’s long-running Rachel’s Table program to become an independent...

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NORTHAMPTON — For Claudia Rosales, getting a driver’s license in Massachusetts has been a decade in the making.“I’m just waiting to get my birth certificate, because my old one expired,” said Rosales, who came to the United States from El Salvador in...

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NORTHAMPTON — The Valley Community Development Corporation revealed preliminary plans Monday for a new affordable housing development that would provide 30 new studio apartments for low-income residents in a six-story building on Crafts Avenue behind...

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NORTHAMPTON — Samuel Solano first arrived in the United States as a boy in 1971, seeking a better life for himself in America. Fifty-two years later and now in his mid-60s, he held up his right hand in the historic Hampshire County Courthouse on...

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NORTHAMPTON — As the deadlien nears to turn in nomination papers for this fall’s biennial municipal election, several new candidates appear poised to throw their hat in the ring for various City Council and School Committee positions, along with the...

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The Supreme Court decision Thursday banning the use of affirmative action in college admissions drew condemnation from education leaders, politicians, and others across the Pioneer Valley and state.In statement after statement released shortly after...

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NORTHAMPTON — In a lecture room at Smith College’s Ford Hall, Steven Williams speaks to a group of 16 scientists from eight different African countries about a new method for testing whether an area is contagious for river blindness, one of the most...

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AMHERST — Nested within a thickly wooded area behind UMass Amherst’s School of Education, a group of college students stand hunched over the soil in a fenced area, looking for bones.Using small 4½-inch trowels, the students slowly scrape the dirt...

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Calling the Republican Party “a joke” and referring to its MAGA faction as “wingnuts,” an exasperated U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern took to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday night to accuse Speaker Kevin McCarthy of losing control of the...