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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 ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After hearings on the matter stretched across three consecutive meetings, the Planning Board has approved a special permit for a proposed 109-room hotel and a 31-unit residential building at 115 Conz St., formerly the site of the Daily...

By SOPHIE HAUCK

HOLYOKE — Three candidates for the open Holyoke Ward 7 City Council seat will compete in a preliminary election Tuesday to determine which two contenders advance to the November general election.Eileen Brady Leahy, Meagan Magrath-Smith and Steve N....

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The City Council will look familiar to residents next term, as eight of the nine councilors up for reelection in November are running unopposed.The sole contested race will occur in Precinct 5, where two residents will square off to...

By MADDIE FABIAN

As many Easthampton residents do, Marjory Zaik has deep ties to the historic New City Neighborhood. A 1930s family photograph pictures her aunts Stella and Helen laughing while cheerfully leaning against the rail of their Federal Street home porch in...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Throughout the month, Easthampton residents and visitors might stumble upon bright-green-covered chapbooks spreading poetry throughout the city. On the cover of the booklets, a circle represents a doorway through which curious minds may...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A UMass Amherst graduate who holds a master’s degree in sustainable development and has served as Greenfield’s energy and sustainability director since 2014 has been chosen to run Northampton’s new Climate Action & Project Administration...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Two incumbents in the upcoming municipal elections in November will have their names on the ballot after all, after the city clerk’s office reversed its position on their eligibility.Marissa Elkins, one of the city’s two current...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The race for six seats on the School Committee in November’s election is heating up in the wake of last spring’s failed permanent superintendent search and surrounding controversy. Ten candidates, including four incumbents, have pulled...

By STEVE PFARRER

Joe Farnsworth was 10 or 11 when he got the chance to meet a drumming legend: Max Roach.It was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 1979, where Roach taught. Farnsworth, who grew up in South Hadley, remembers how one of his older brothers,...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The city’s municipal building remains closed over air quality concerns resulting from HVAC repairs, but is expected to reopen to staff and the public next week.The building has been officially and indefinitely closed since July 24, a...

By STEVE PFARRER

Edgy. Sardonic and deadpan. Willing to joke about difficult subjects. Willing to joke about himself.As Sam Morril sees it, pretty much anything is fair game for comedy, at least as an antidote to the news and to life in general.“It’s a crazy world and...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Several staff members who work in the city’s Municipal Building began reporting symptoms related to poor air quality and other issues inside the building on July 17, a week before the city hall was officially and indefinitely closed to...

Seeing the lightCHESTER – The summer season at the Chester Theatre Company (CTC) continues through this weekend with the final performances of Loy A. Webb’s “The Light,” a production that looks at how a young African-American couple navigate...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — After months of revision and debate, the City Council officially struck down an ordinance around reproductive and gender-affirming care at its meeting Wednesday when supporters could not muster enough votes to override a mayoral veto.The...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Due to ongoing air quality issues, HVAC problems and safety concerns, Easthampton Municipal Building remains closed to the public and staff until further notice.“This may be an over abundance of caution, but this decision has been made...