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By CAROLYN BROWN

In a year of international strife, the Northampton Jazz Festival is aiming to bring people together with music that transcends borders. The Northampton Jazz Festival, which will return for its 12th year on Sept. 27 and 28, is celebrating the unifying...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — In the place sometimes known as the Paradise City, it may come to no surprise there would be pushback against putting up a parking lot.That’s the dilemma currently facing Carla Cosenzi, president of the TommyCar Auto Group, which...

By Staff Report

NORTHAMPTON — Exit 23 on Interstate 91, which drops vehicles off the highway onto Route 5, will be closed overnights beginning Sunday to accommodate ongoing construction.Beginning at 7 p.m. daily, the exit ramp will be closed, reopening the following...

By BILL NEWMAN

Last week 14-year-old Colt Gray shot and killed two classmates and two teachers at his Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Colt has been charged with four counts of felony murder and will be tried as an adult.His father, Colin Gray, has been...

A good indicator of inflation is a simple thing like the cost of a first-class postage stamp. Back in 1963, a first-class stamp cost 5 cents (those were the good old days!). By 2006, it had jumped to 39 cents. By 2018, it hit 50 cents and, just...

By OLIN ROSE-BARDAWIL

When it was first announced that Kamala Harris would be replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, I had my doubts about her ability to win the election. She had a poor performance in her first bid for the presidency in 2020, and there...

Honest education on antisemitism importantI’m a Jewish educator working in Northampton Public Schools so naturally, I think honest, good education on antisemitism is important.I attended the presentation given to the NPS community on Sept. 3 by...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — City, state and hospital officials gathered in front of Cooley Dickinson Hospital on Tuesday to, quite literally, mark a major milestone toward the completion of a new emergency department and to celebrate the more than $11 million...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A research-and-development laboratory previously in Amherst, where studies and tests were ongoing to improve lubrication systems in military jets and helicopters so they will last longer and use less oil, recently relocated to a larger...

Herbicides safe? I don't think so. Maybe there is a reason why Japanese knotweed showed up here, given the prevalence of ticks and Lyme disease. Lyme disease is nothing to mess around with. If people were aware that Japanese knotweed is a cure for...

The other night, my kid had a nightmare about guns. I bet he wasn’t the only one, in the wake of all the publicity about the Apalachee High School shooting.The New York Times reported afterward that the Georgia school contracted with a private...

As a Jew in the past year (especially) I find myself constantly aware of what I say about being Jewish/Israel/Gaza/the current hostage situation. I am also reminded by many — neighbors and friends — that I should “be careful” about how I choose to...

Why is the entire world in such turmoil? In America, students and other campus disrupters make demands that would get them summarily shot or “disappeared” in many nations, some to our south. Nonetheless, these demonstrators embody the decline and...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — Maintaining and improving existing public housing properties is an ongoing challenge for local housing authorities with limited resources, an issue that housing advocates and professionals are hopeful the state’s $5.16 billion housing...

By JOHN SHEIRER

Yesterday, when I was walking our cute, smart dog Libby through our neighborhood, a gaggle of strangers rounded the corner and approached us. “Hey, what are your policies for this neighborhood!” they shouted. “When are you going to tell us where you...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Give, touch, wait, OK.Winnie, a gray poodle mix with fluffy ears and a puff at the end of her tail, looks at her owner Naomi Rosenberg with big, excited eyes. She had followed each command from Rosenberg enthusiastically to get to her...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A steep drop in the number of Black students in the Class of 2028 at Amherst College compared to the preceding year’s incoming class, and less racial diversity in the first-year class, is likely a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against...

By RABBI DAVID SEIDENBERG

A petition made the rounds in the past two weeks to stop a training about antisemitism from taking place at Northampton High School. That training, led by Project Shema, happened on Tuesday.“Shema” means “listening” in Hebrew, and Project Shema’s...

Madame Vice President, I know you want to appear “strong” and “tough” so that, especially as a woman, you do not appear to be “weak.” But being strong is not the same as being macho! Being strong is also about inner strength — knowing what is right,...

How time flies“I got sober in 1990 at age twenty-seven. A few years later, I started writing songs.” That’s how singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier begins the liner notes of her soon-to-be reissued, highly acclaimed album, “Drag Queens in Limousines,”...

By ELISE LINSCOTT

A public art project by Puerto Rican artist Yanira Castro aims to undo the disconnection that happens as a result of colonization, and to think collectively about the future we, as a community, want to conjure.The project, titled Exorcism =...