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 By Emilee Klein

Before the pandemic, Dr. David Alpern, like many health care workers at the time, didn’t think twice about going to work with a runny nose or cough.But since symptoms of COVID-19 are indistinguishable from the common cold, the retired Cooley Dickinson...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering loosening isolation requirements for people who test positive for COVID-19, meaning they would no longer have to stay at home for at least five days when infected with the virus.Under the...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — As the city’s new public health nurse, Christine Southworth will play an important role in keeping the community healthy through preventative and educational work.“I really love preventative medicine,” she said. “It’s a nice field of...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Cases of COVID-19 have been on the rise throughout the Pioneer Valley over the past month, although not to the extent that they were a year ago, according to health officials. Data from Northampton Wastewater Treatment Plant shows a...

By Chris Lisinski

BOSTON — It can be difficult to grasp all at once a sense of how dramatically the world seemed to change in March 2020.Now that the public health emergency order in Massachusetts has ended, as of Thursday, state health officials say the road out of...

By Chris Lisinski

BOSTON — Some of the last vestiges of the COVID-19 emergency declaration will end in May when Gov. Maura Healey will lift the modified public health emergency and walk back a vaccine mandate for tens of thousands of executive branch workers.The Healey...

By MADDIE FABIAN

Jennifer Ritz Sullivan lost her mother, Earla Dawn Dimitriadis, to COVID-19 in December 2020. Now, she is one of the millions grieving the loss of a loved one to the virus, and she is working hard to make sure the impact of the pandemic is not...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Ventilation systems, pickleball courts and manhole covers honoring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are just some of the projects awarded grants by the city of Northampton, using $4 million the city received in American Rescue Act Plan...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON – More than 60 organizations in the city will receive a portion of $4 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to be divvied up by the city, based on recommendations made last week by Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra.The mayor designated the...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — A few months ago a resident asked the city’s Health Department how they could acquire fentanyl test strips, one of several harm reduction products the city makes available for free upon request, without having to ask for them in person...

By ANNA GUARACAO

As the temperature drops and Bay State residents spend more time indoors, public health experts and health care professionals are concerned about an increasing viral mix of COVID-19, RSV, and the flu, while staffing shortages and overflowing emergency...

By GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON — Longtime downtown business owner Bill Muller thought he had a plan — consolidate his Northampton businesses, Guild Art Supply and Pierce’s Frameshop, and his Easthampton printing business, Big Wheel Press, into one space in the old...

By MARY BYRNE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — For the first time in months, Samantha Daviau felt like she could finally take a breath.Her father, Richard Daviau, owner of Damn Yankees BBQ on Elm Street in South Deerfield, was released from Baystate Medical Center in Springfield...

By BERA DUNAU

EASTHAMPTON — For more than four decades, a star shining over the city from Mount Tom has been a holiday tradition. Now, as residents deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic, the star is again lighting up the night in a gesture meant to spark and...