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By Bob Katzen

THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of July 24-28. $375 MILLION FOR ROADS AND BRIDGES (S 2375): House 157-0, Senate 39-0, approved and sent to Gov. Maura Healey...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Comparing Donald Trump to Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, John Bonifaz, a local attorney and activist, condemned Trump at a rally in Northampton on Thursday shortly after the former president was arraigned in...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Due to ongoing air quality issues, HVAC problems and safety concerns, Easthampton Municipal Building remains closed to the public and staff until further notice.“This may be an over abundance of caution, but this decision has been made...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The Municipal Building will be closed this Tuesday and Wednesday for HVAC upgrades, heatwave precautions, and air quality monitoring, according to city officials.The mayor’s office cited “the anticipated heat wave, ongoing HVAC issues,...

By MERCY LINGLE

NORTHAMPTON — Though they may be headquartered in small offices under one roof in downtown Northampton, two social justice nonprofits have their eyes focused several thousand miles away in political hot spots like Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Last winter, some of the money raised from a military tribute banner project was put toward buying new boots and wool socks for three Easthampton veterans who couldn’t afford them.Now, for the sixth year, the banners are once again...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — When Jeremy Macomber-Dubs was growing up, he was the first physically disabled person to attend his high school, with a wheelchair ramp having to be installed in the building. He has defied his condition, known as brittle bone disease,...

LAURA WASHINGTON

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. Anxious Democrats are taking note.The longtime environmental lawyer is the son and namesake of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., a former U.S. attorney general who was assassinated...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — After 26 years of holding leadership positions in philanthropy and education, Colleen Kucinski will bridge those skill sets in her new role as The Literacy Project’s executive director. “I’m really excited,” Kucinski said. “I still have a...

By AOIFE MOORE

DUBLIN — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday was welcomed as a “hero and a trailblazer” to Ireland, on her first foreign trip in her new role.An emotional Healey addressed the Irish Senate, almost exactly 60 years to the day since President...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — Speaking to a small crowd of supporters gathered outside amid the humid heat, Sen. Elizabeth Warren lambasted the current U.S. Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade one year ago, saying the court had been taken over by “extremists” who...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Calling the Republican Party “a joke” and referring to its MAGA faction as “wingnuts,” an exasperated U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern took to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday night to accuse Speaker Kevin McCarthy of losing control of the...

By SOPHIE HAUCK

BOSTON — What started as a campaign against single-use plastic at Crocker Farm Elementary School became a lesson in political advocacy for fifth graders Nina Hirschberg and Bailey Millay, who testified on Beacon Hill in support of anti-plastic...

By Chris Lisinski

BOSTON — The fate of tax relief will now rest with a legislative negotiating committee after the Senate late last week stamped its unanimous approval on a nearly $590 million package. Both branches have voted this session on increasing tax breaks for...

By SAM DORAN

Former House Speaker David Bartley, one of the youngest lawmakers ever to lead the House and a champion of education access, died Tuesday at the age of 88.Nearly half a century passed by since Bartley’s speakership, and he was still remembered this...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALLand DOMENIC POLI

Donald Trump’s appearance in a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday marked another monumental occasion in his turbulent political career, an event that drew wide-ranging comments from residents and legal scholars in western Massachusetts.The former...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The City Council approved a $52.2 million budget for next fiscal year Wednesday night, but not before council members engaged in significant discussion on the importance of maintaining specific programming in the city’s...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A majority of the City Council on Thursday backed a $132.3 million budget for fiscal 2024, but not before significant debate about whether the Police Department should get more money to create so-called student police positions to...

By DOMENIC POLI

DEERFIELD — The parents of Meaghan Burns, a U.S. corpsman killed by a peer four years ago, have organized a 5K this holiday weekend to honor all fallen American service members.Carolyn and Matthew Burns teamed with “wear blue: run to remember” to hold...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — The leader of the town’s Finance Committee has resigned after a rocky budget season, saying that the panel doesn’t have enough volunteers to meet its obligations and that even if it did, the town often provides out-of-date or inaccurate...