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Guest columnist Andy Morris-Friedman: Sneak a peek at the Trump Museum
02-17-2025 10:46 PM

By ANDY MORRIS-FRIEDMAN

 


Annita Sawyer: Generous strangers
02-17-2025 10:38 PM

In 1993, while visiting our niece at Smith College, I noticed that strangers in town smiled at me as we passed. Cars stopped for pedestrians in the crosswalks! Dazzled and delighted, I fell in love with Northampton. Twenty-five years later, seeking a lively, welcoming community in which to grow old, Will and I moved to Northampton. We haven’t been disappointed.


Stephen Armstrong: More than echoes of ‘Great Gatsby’
02-17-2025 10:38 PM

I promised the editor that I would not write another letter about Trump for four years, because he (Trump, not the editor) is just too depressing.


Leah Gregg: Our city budget is a moral document
02-17-2025 10:38 PM

I am writing to express my pride as a resident of Ward 3 in having Quaverly Rothenberg as my City Council representative. There’s an often quoted phrase that appears in the classic movie “Inherit the Wind” — that the job of a journalist is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted. I would say it is also the job of a good politician. (We all know there are many politicians who do exactly the opposite.)


High Schools: Cam Graves heats up down the stretch to lead Smith Academy boys into Class D semis following 53-50 win over Monson
02-17-2025 9:20 PM

It was quite the start to the postseason for the Smith Academy boys basketball team.


Girls basketball: Northampton senior Bri Heafey hits 1,000 points in Blue Devils’ tournament win over Westfield (PHOTOS)
02-17-2025 8:48 PM

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Bri Heafey stepped to the foul line for three shots in the second quarter of the No. 2 Northampton girls basketball team’s PVIAC Class A quarterfinal matchup with No. 7 Westfield on Monday night. The Blue Devils senior needed to knock down a pair to give her 1,000 career points.


Indoor track: South Hadley's Abigail Gelinas, Maggie Crawford, Kelcey Zraunig and Emma Levreault win 4x200 meter relay title at MIAA Div. 5 Championships
02-17-2025 6:41 PM

The MIAA Division 5 Indoor Track & Field Championships took place Monday afternoon at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, after inclement weather postponed the initial meet that was scheduled for Sunday.


Downtown’s new cheerleader: Andrea Monson named new director of Downtown Northampton Association
02-17-2025 6:13 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — Experienced business owner and economic development professional Andrea Monson has been named the new executive director of the Downtown Northampton Association.


Entrepreneur Cesar Ruiz buys Wyckoff Country Club for $2.8M, will keep it as golf course, country club
02-17-2025 6:09 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — Wyckoff Country Club golf course at the base of Mount Tom has a new owner who plans on renovating the 18-hole course and having it complement an overall grand design for a sports complex in Holyoke.


500 attend McGovern coffee hour to share outrage with Trump administration and the Democratic Party alike
02-17-2025 6:07 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — It wasn’t the coffee that had the people inside the First Churches of Northampton energetic and on edge Saturday morning. Some 500 crowded into the church shoulder to shoulder, mutually distressed about the state of national politics — and they voiced those concerns in a coffee hour town hall with U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern that lasted close to two hours.


Amherst putting $500K toward roads, sidewalks
02-17-2025 4:41 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Although only half the amount originally sought by the town manager, the Town Council is providing an extra $500,000 from free cash for resurfacing roads and doing sidewalk repairs this spring, summer and fall.


Frontier School Committee tables vote on MCAS graduation requirement
02-17-2025 4:40 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After receiving numerous letters against proposed graduation requirements, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee Tuesday evening tabled a measure that would require students to still pass the MCAS or a similar standardized test to graduate.


Community Preservation Committee recommends $200K for Deerfield playground
02-17-2025 4:38 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The Community Preservation Committee has unanimously recommended $200,000 in Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding for the first phase of an extensive playground renovation and repair project at Deerfield Elementary School.


Storm, high winds hit Cummington, Plainfield hard
02-17-2025 4:20 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — Power lines are down, at least 85% of residents and businesses are without power, and a one-mile stretch of Route 9 is closed between Packard and West Cummington roads after wind gusts of over 60 mph swept through the town on Monday.


Photos: Chipping away at the post-storm ice
02-17-2025 2:02 PM


Guest columnist Marietta Pritchard: Are we getting stupider as our reading declines?
02-17-2025 8:01 AM

By MARIETTA PRITCHARD

Are we getting stupider? David Brooks writes in the New York Times that stupidity has come to define our politics. Even intelligent people can also be stupid, he argues. They can come to believe in conspiracist theories and make decisions against their own interests.


A Look Back, Feb. 17
02-17-2025 5:01 AM

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The first two days of the Northampton Winter Festival were blessed with excellent to adequate weather and large crowds. The eight-day festival continues today with a day-long George Washington’s Birthday sale in the Downtown Business area and a sports luncheon at the Hotel Northampton featuring the area’s two college men’s basketball teams, the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College.


St. Mary’s project faces skepticism at Northampton Planning Board meeting
02-16-2025 10:49 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — If Sunwood Builders is to complete its envisioned 88,500-square-foot building in the heart of the city, it must first clear a fair bit of skepticism over the project plans.


Columnist Sara Weinberger: Channeling Bishop Budde’ ‘grit and grace’
02-16-2025 8:52 PM

By SARA WEINBERGER

Dear Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde,


Guest columnist Leigh Graham: Take a closer look at Northampton, and school budget realities
02-16-2025 8:40 PM

By LEIGH GRAHAM

 

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