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By STEVE PFARRER

Steven LeBlanc made his first foray into mixing drinks and bartending when he was in the Navy, researching a lot on his own, creating classic cocktails and his variations on them and testing them on friends and shipmates, then serving drinks in an...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — This year, Jewish families across the Pioneer Valley are partaking in traditional Hanukkah festivities, such as lighting the menorah, feasting on latkes and spinning the dreidel.But it’s impossible to celebrate this year’s Hanukkah,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — With the recent installation of new heat pumps in their downtown building, the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence has capped off an ambitious 10-year effort to decarbonize the Main Street church.The heat pumps, which began...

By MADDIE FABIAN

SOUTHAMPTON — At a special Town Meeting this week, the town unanimously approved spending about $420,000 to permanently conserve 731 acres as part of the Mountain Waters Project.“This is a great day for Southampton,” Cindy Palmer, chair of the Open...

By STEVE PFARRER

Noche Trist: A Memoir of AnorexiaBy Robert RadinIbidem/Columbia University Press A few years ago, Robert Radin, the the director of citizenship and immigration services for Jewish Family Service in Springfield, wrote a memoir about his experience...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Massachusetts Environmental Police arrested two brothers Saturday night after they allegedly shot a deer from their truck while in Colrain.Police arrested Colrain resident Seth Doull, 51, and Worthington resident Ira Doull, 46, on...

By MADDIE FABIAN

SOUTHAMPTON — At a special Town Meeting on Tuesday, voters will decide whether to appropriate around $420,000 to permanently conserve over 700 acres of land as part of the Mountain Waters Project.The project, which the town of Southampton, Kestrel...

By EMILEE KLEIN

FLORENCE — Carolyn “Sissie” Horrigan remembers one December years ago when Santa Claus strolled down Main Street with Mrs. Claus, greeting people and delivering presents to those naughty and nice.She said a young boy in the window of Fitzwilly’s...

By MADDIE FABIAN

AMHERST — As former longtime public school employees, Jack Horrigan and Jan Ryan worked with children over the span of their careers and saw firsthand the significance of Christmas to kids.That’s why every year, the two donate to the Sidney F. Smith...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — After nearly a year without a contract and two years with no raise, about 600 Cooley Dickinson Hospital workers will receive an average wage increase of 21% over 20 months, among other gains in a new contract ratified unanimously this...

By MADDIE FABIAN

SOUTHAMPTON — Responding to a parent asking how old his 2-and 3-year-old boys will be by the time the Southampton Greenway is constructed, Friends of the Southampton Greenway member John Sheehan said, “We asked ourselves that 30 years ago.” But this...

By HANNAH BEVIS

DEVENS – Northampton head coach Linda Rowbotham and junior Maeve O’Neil hovered over Rowbotham’s phone, checking the live results of the MIAA Division 2 Girls Cross Country Championship race that had just concluded minutes before. As far as the Blue...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Despite pleas from the biggest group opposed to Picture Main Street to pick an alternative design, the City Council officially went on record Thursday in support of the city’s years-in-the-making plan for a $21 million redesign of Main...

By HANNAH BEVIS

Seven different Gazette schools will travel to Fort Devens this weekend to compete in the MIAA Cross Country State Championships. Three different divisions will race on Saturday, with the Division 3 race slated first, followed by Division 1 and ending...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — As the Nashawannuck Pond Steering Committee faces a number of ongoing and upcoming projects to maintain and preserve the pond, a nonprofit organization has formed to financially support the committee.As a nonprofit, The Friends of...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — At a poignant City Council meeting on Wednesday evening, residents and councilors came together to share stories of antisemitism, hatred and hope in expressing their support for a resolution against antisemitism, which passed...

By STEVE PFARRER

When staff at the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, in the midst of doing renovations in the basement, came across a tattered but still readable playbill from a concert apparently staged at the property in 1873 — then known simply as the Florence...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

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...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — A portion of New York City’s historic Riverside Church currently resides in Easthampton, where window panels fill crates and tables at Shalan Stained Glass as they undergo restoration.Over the past year, craftsman Glenn Shalan has been...

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...