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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council is generally supportive of granting a prominent businessman a $100,000 tax break over the next eight years on a hotel he plans to build that city officials estimate will bring in $3.4 million in new tax revenue.Some...

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 ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The former home of the Daily Hampshire Gazette may soon be the site of a new 109-room hotel that the developer says would bring 50 new jobs to the city.Hotelier Mansour Ghalibaf wants to build an extended-stay hotel with two additional...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Around 100 people gathered Tuesday evening to watch as the Gazette presented its Person of the Year and Young Community Leader awards.Longtime early childhood educator Barbara Black and 18-year-old Hopkins Academy senior Allison Jenks...