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By DOUG SELWYN

A recent essay by Blythe Thomas, initiative director at 1000 Days, an organization that fights “to make health and well-being during the first 1,000 days (between pregnancy and a child’s 2nd birthday) a policy and funding priority,” begins by asking...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Primary care physician Dr. Shayne Taylor doesn’t get to practice medicine the way she wishes or the way she was trained in medical school.She, like many other primary care practitioners, shuffles through 16 to 20 patients a day and has a...

By Bob Flaherty

NORTHAMPTON — “There’s wickedness in this place!” “I am innocent and God knows it! “Goody Parsons, I am not the source of your despair — you have been entertaining Satan in Northampton!”The shrieks pierced the air inside the ballroom of Hotel...

EASTHAMPTON — The Family Dollar on Union Street has reopened after the Fire Department determined the business is now in compliance with numerous fire safety code violations. The department recently ordered the store closed for the second time this...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The Family Dollar on Union Street has been forced to close for a second time this year after numerous fire safety code violations were discovered. Fire Chief Christopher Norris said the code violations were similar to the infractions for...

By STEVE PFARRER

When it comes to transgender rights, the headlines across many parts of the country have become increasingly ugly in the last several months.At least 15 states, all controlled by Republicans, have banned or restricted gender-affirming medical care for...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The Family Dollar on Union Street has been ordered to close until a number of fire safety code violations have been rectified and the building has been brought into compliance.The city’s Fire Department issued the discount retailer a...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — Luma Mufleh, who was shaped by her experience at her beloved alma mater, Smith College, and went on to found the refugee and immigrant education nonprofit Fugees Family, will be Smith’s commencement speaker this year.“I thought it was...

By LISA SPEAR

There are no church bells. There is no steeple. Leticia Figueroa, 25, is wearing a white dress, but that’s the only thing that’s typical about her wedding day.She’s on the side of a busy the road, at the end of a dirt driveway, in Belchertown,...

By LISA SPEAR

Story, an enormous St. Bernard, lies down on Dennis Ashworth’s feet, as the 90-year old relaxes in his easy chair in his apartment in Amherst. The dog is panting hard, his long pink tongue hanging below his jaw.“He is going to drool on you and leave a...

By  LISA SPEAR

After a difficult pregnancy three years ago, Thalia Ghazey-Bates of Northampton gave birth to her twins two months early. When the babies were finally able to come home, she and her husband had to be on high alert: Sometimes they would stop breathing....

By LISA SPEAR

About a half dozen actors, wearing jeans and T-shirts, are hunched over, rearing their heads pretending to be unicorns as they gallop around the room full of spectators — most of them kids — in the Eastworks Building in Easthampton.Pam Victor, who is...