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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — In front of the Unitarian Society of Northampton stands a temporary doorway and wall, raised on Tuesday by members of Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity in honor of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity’s wall-raising ceremony at an affordable housing development at 278 Burts Pit Road on Tuesday was nearly 30 years in the making. Formerly part of the now-demolished Northampton State Hospital, the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A green revolution may soon be coming for city buildings as the City Council eyes adoption of a new building code that discourages the use of fossil fuels at the same time as nonprofit affordable home developers are constructing...

Photos and text by Sarah Crosby

Some 50 tiny homes filled the ballroom at Eastworks Saturday afternoon — edible homes, that is, made of gingerbread — as several hundred people, working to holiday tunes, gathered at the Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity Annual Gingerbread Build...