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By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN, MORGAN HUGHES and NICOLE DEFEUDIS
NORTH ADAMS — Speaking to the public for the first time in seven weeks, law enforcement officials on Friday tied an Easthampton woman to an investigation involving her deceased ex-boyfriend and his missing wife. Laura J. Reilly, 42, has pleaded not...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
EASTHAMPTON — With just hours to the deadline to file federal income taxes Tuesday, some tax preparation services were serving clients up until the last minute.At the Liberty Tax Service, 53 Union St., Easthampton, tax specialist Saqib Tasneem was...
By AMANDA DRANE
EASTHAMPTON — Many yoga teachers encourage a sense of childlike play in the practice, and what better way is there to do that than yoga with kids — the furry kind.Yeah, the goat yoga phenomenon has (of course) reached western Mass., and it’s doing...
In the wake of parking lot violence and complaints of racism and harassment, Easthampton High School administrators have work ahead to improve the school’s climate and rebuild trust with students and parents.The walkout staged by hundreds of high...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
For Easthampton and Northampton, a conclusion is in the works to lift the natural gas moratorium that has restricted new service to residents and business owners in the two cities for two years.Columbia Gas of Massachusetts is negotiating an agreement...
Schools must send clear message on racism I write in support of the Easthampton parents protesting their high school’s inadequate response to racism in their school by failing to send a clear message that racial hatred will not be tolerated (“Parents...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
EASTHAMPTON — Superintendent Nancy Follansbee will investigate concerns about bullying and safety raised by parents and students of Easthampton High School. On Wednesday, some parents called for the removal of Principal Kevin Burke, saying the...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
EASTHAMPTON — The School Committee plans to discuss last Thursday’s Easthampton High School walkout, when hundreds of students marched in the streets against hate and voiced concerns about how school administrators handle racism. The walkout was...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
EASTHAMPTON — A new tasting room and other expansions are planned for Fort Hill Brewery, but some residents still worry about the additional noise and traffic the establishment’s growth could bring to the area.The brewery at 30 Fort Hill Road has...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
President William McKinley's visit to Northampton, South Hadley and Holyoke in 1899 came with great fanfare: parades, public gatherings and accolades at the commencement ceremonies at Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges.Nearly 118 years after the...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
NORTHAMPTON – A former Easthampton man pleaded guilty to charges of child rape on Friday and was sentenced to five years at the Hampshire County Jail and House of Corrections followed by five years probation.Kevin Paulin pleaded guilty to two counts...
By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ
NORTHAMPTON — An Easthampton man will spend 4 to 5½ years in state prisonafter he admitted to beating and terrorizing his former girlfriend in the spring of 2015.Kevin Pardee, 30, of Easthampton, who has been on house arrest since June 2016, pleaded...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Easthampton cyclist Jeremy Powers has looked over his shoulder at Stephen Hyde for years.The mentor, a four-time national champion, watched his mentee grow through the JAM Fund program into one of the top cyclocross riders in the country.Hyde pursued...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
EASTHAMPTON — Cumberland Farms is coming to Northampton Street.The gas station and convenience store chain is planning to build a facility on property located at 221 Northampton St. off Route 10 in Easthampton.A section of the nearly 2-acre lot is...
By AMANDA DRANE
HOLYOKE — Milton Galarza and his wife, who is seven months pregnant with their son, almost didn’t make it out of their fourth-floor apartment alive when a fire ravaged the building on New Year’s morning.He said his friend Trevor Wadleigh of...
By JACK SUNTRUP
HOLYOKE — Authorities on Tuesday had no word as to the cause of a New Year’s Day fire that claimed three lives in the Flats neighborhood of Holyoke.Hampden County District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni’s office did announce Tuesday, however, that Trevor...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
EASTHAMPTON – Kindergartners and first-graders got a surprise visit from the Pepin/Center Elementary Schools’ mascot, Eli the eagle, who came to thank students for raising a total of $701.74 for the Easthampton Community Center. “Guess how much money...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
EASTHAMPTON — The Williston Northampton School has donated a new rescue boat to the city of Easthampton, a gift that was officially accepted at Wednesday’s City Council meeting.A 14-foot inflatable Defender with a 25-horsepower outboard motor will...
By JACK SUNTRUP
EASTHAMPTON — Japanese war planes swept into Pearl Harbor 75 years ago, killing more than 2,400 Americans. The day after, from a podium directed toward U.S. lawmakers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, would be a date “which will...
By Amanda Drane
In many Chinese restaurants, workers are expected to work well beyond the standard 40-hour week. Can those employees then expect time-and-a-half overtime pay? No. But, then again, yes. Restaurants are among the businesses that have won an exemption...
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