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By EMILY CUTTS

EASTHAMPTON — Hundreds of Easthampton High School students staged a walkout Thursday morning in response to what one organizer called the school’s indifference to addressing racism — and less than 24 hours after a fight involving students in the high...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The operation was straightforward — an online advertisement showcasing “partially clothed females”; the men contact them; they meet discreetly at a hotel. Once the men ask for sex and offer cash, the police move in and make the...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Many of the mailboxes that line Florence Road are shells of their former selves.Some are tethered to their posts by bungee cords. Some are held in place with near entire rolls of gorilla tape. Others have been reduced to jagged plastic...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTHAMPTON — The town’s three-decade practice of using public money to remove snow and ice from private streets may soon come to an end.“It is illegal and other communities are doing it (plowing),” Select Board member James Labrie said at a public...

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 EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Residents in the Northampton Housing Authority’s more than 600 apartments will soon have to go outside to smoke.The housing authority’s board had discussed a smoking ban in the past but no action was taken before the Department of...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — After a three-month hiatus, a Florence massage business at the center of a human trafficking investigation has reopened after fixing the health violations that led the city’s Board of Health to condemn the space.On Tuesday, the neon...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

BELCHERTOWN — A woman who admitted being one of several teenagers to bully 15-year-old South Hadley High School student Phoebe Prince before she took her life in 2010, is back in court — facing criminal harassment charges in a new case.In the new...

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 MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The former St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church and the nearby properties, including the neighboring rectory and parking lot, are officially on the market.While the Springfield Diocese confirmed Friday that it is seeking buyers for 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 MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Downtown Northampton now boasts a new recovery center aimed at providing addicts and loved ones with emotional support.The Northampton Recovery Center at Edwards Church, 297 Main St., which officially opened Monday, was a project that...

By FRAN RYAN

NORTHAMPTON — Joseph Bartolomeo’s two-day winning streak on the TV game show “Jeopardy!” came to an end Monday evening when the University of Massachusetts Amherst English professor lost to a Virginia social worker. The two-time champion had won a...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — The attorney for one of the three men accused in carrying out a South Hadley home invasion last November in which one person was shot in the stomach told a judge on Friday that his client didn’t know one of his alleged co-assailants was...

By LISA SPEAR

Air Force veteran John Paradis’ snoring stutters like a chainsaw before he stops breathing.Paradis, 53, of Northampton gasps for air, choking back to consciousness after his airways collapse over and over again throughout the night. He is fighting to...

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 MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Soknang Chham, the New Salem man prosecutors say shot and killed a 31-year-old Amherst man in October, pleaded not guilty Friday to a slew of charges he is now facing in Hampshire Superior Court.Police say Chham, 33, and his brother,...

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 EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — The number of heroin overdoses in the city has nearly tripled in the last year, according to data released Wednesday by the Northampton Police Department .“We are indeed in the midst of a terrible epidemic,” the department wrote in a...